Lucy Boynton is a rising talent whose affable poise and enigmatic performances are making an indelible mark across entertainment.
Boynton is currently in production on ITV’s The Ipcress File alongside Tom Hollander and Joe Cole. The six-part Berlin-set series is based on Len Deighton’s spy novel The Ipcress File, which inspired the 1965 Michael Caine film of the same name. A release date has not yet been set. Next up, Boynton will star as iconic rock singer Marianne Faithfull in Faithfull, a biopic about the international singer’s rise to fame during the British Invasion. Boynton will also executive produce the film, which is set to begin production in the summer of 2021.
Most recently, Boynton can be seen starring in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician opposite Ben Platt and Gwyneth Paltrow. The series, on which Murphy serves as writer, showrunner and executive producer, is about Payt
Lucy Boynton is a rising talent whose affable poise and enigmatic performances are making an indelible mark across entertainment.
Boynton is currently in production on ITV’s The Ipcress File alongside Tom Hollander and Joe Cole. The six-part Berlin-set series is based on Len Deighton’s spy novel The Ipcress File, which inspired the 1965 Michael Caine film of the same name. A release date has not yet been set. Next up, Boynton will star as iconic rock singer Marianne Faithfull in Faithfull, a biopic about the international singer’s rise to fame during the British Invasion. Boynton will also executive produce the film, which is set to begin production in the summer of 2021.
Most recently, Boynton can be seen starring in Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician opposite Ben Platt and Gwyneth Paltrow. The series, on which Murphy serves as writer, showrunner and executive producer, is about Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), a wealthy student from Santa Barbara, who has known since age seven that he’s going to be president of the United States, but first, he has to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all, Saint Sebastian High School. Following its premiere, the series was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category of Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Season two premiered on June 19, 2020.
In 2018, Boynton starred alongside Rami Malek in the 2019 Golden Globe Award-winning Bohemian Rhapsody. The film is a celebration of Queen, their music and their lead singer Freddie Mercury, and chronicles the years leading up to Queen’s legendary appearance at the Live Aid concert in 1985. It was also nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Picture, a SAG award in the category of Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and a BAFTA Award in the category of Best British Film. Boynton portrays Mary Austin, Freddie Mercury’s muse and companion.
In 2017, Boynton was seen in Kenneth Branagh’s Murder On The Orient Express, starring Jonny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Dame Judi Dench. Adapted from the book Agatha Christie, the film follows a lavish train ride through Europe that quickly unfolds into the thrilling mystery of thirteen strangers stranded on a train. Additionally, she starred in Lisa Rubin’s Netflix series Gypsy, opposite Naomi Watts. The series follows the journey of Jean Holloway (Watts), a therapist who begins to develop dangerous and intimate relationships with the people in her patients’ lives. Boynton portrays Allison, a 19-year-old patient of Jean’s who has recently dropped out of school to support her addiction and is hiding this secret from her mother.
Additionally, in 2017, Boynton was seen in Danny Strong’s J.D. Salinger biopic Rebel in the Rye, alongside Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey and Sarah Paulson. The film is an adaptation of Kenneth Slawenski’s biography, J.D. Salinger: A Life. It follows the legendary and secretive author through his life, ultimately leading to the birth of his iconic novel The Catcher in the Rye. Prior, she had Polly Steele’s LET ME GO, with Juliet Stevenson and Johdi May. Developed from Helga Schneider’s true-life story, the film was released on September 15, 2017. Boynton marked her breakthrough as the female lead in John Carney’s SING STREET, opposite Ferdia Walsh-Peelo. The story follows a boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s, where he escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the girl he likes (Boynton). The film got rave reviews and received a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Motion Picture for a Musical or Comedy.
Her first feature film role was as young Beatrix Potter in Chris Noonan’s MISS POTTER, for which she received a nomination for Best Supporting Young Actress in a Feature Film at the Young Artist Awards. Additional film credits include Locked Down, opposite Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor; Gareth Steven’s Apostle; Osgood Perkins’ horror film The Blackcoat’s Daughter; the BBC production of Ballet Shoes, opposite Dame Eileen Atkins, Victoria Wood and Emma Watson; Osgood Perkins’ I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, opposite Ruth Wilson and Bob Balaban; Caradog Jame’s Don’t Knock Twice; Neville Pierce’s Lock In, Ron Maxwell’s US Civil War drama Copperhead; Philip Martin’s MO; and Ryan Vernav’s Hymn To Pan.
On the small screen, Boynton is known for her role of Angelica Bell, daughter of artist Vanessa Bell and niece of Virginia Woolf, in the BBC Two three-part drama about the Bloomsbury Group, Life In Squares. She is also known for her role as Margaret Dashwood in the three-part BBC production of Sense & Sensibility, adapted by BAFTA-winning writer Andrew Davies, opposite Dominic Cooper and Dan Stevens. Boynton was also seen in Law & Order Uk, Endeavour, Lewis, and Channel 4’s BAFTA-nominated series Borgia. In 2012, Boynton also starred in Saint Raymond’s music video for his debut song, Fall At Your Feet.
Boynton was born in New York and raised in London, where she currently resides today.
