Lucy Boynton is the biggest star you've never heard of
The British actress whose star keeps rising! How Lucy Boynton made her name in steamy dramas like The Politician before big break in Bohemian Rhapsody and new film Chevaliar (while her boyfriend is a Hollywood A-lister)
- British actress Lucy Boynton, 29, has seen her star gradually rising over the years
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She’s gone from starring in Beatrice Potter biopics to steamy lesbian sex scenes – but Lucy Boynton’s star shows no sign of slowing down.
Born in New York to British parents – the journalists Graham Boynton and Adriaane Pielou – Lucy was raised in South London along with her older sister Emma-Louise before she landed her first role at the age of 12.
She has since gone on to star in sexy scenes in TV shows like The Politician, as well as wowing audiences with her performance in Bohemian Rapsody opposite her boyfriend Rami Malek.
While the pair are famously tight-lipped about their romance, she is often seen on red carpets with her Hollywood A-lister beau.
The 29-year-old is next set to appear as the late Mary Antoinette, the late Queen of France in the biopic Chevalier, which is sure to see her star rise even higher.
She’s gone from starring in Beatrice Potter biopics to steamy lesbian sex scenes – but Lucy Boynton’s star shows no sign of slowing down
Speaking to You magazine in 2022, Lucy explained how growing up around journalists helped her adapt to life in the spotlight (pictured in her first role as Beatrix Potter)
Speaking to You magazine in 2022, Lucy explained how growing up around journalists helped her adapt to life in the spotlight.
She said: ‘Hearing about interviews with actors from Mum’s point of view made me slightly less intimidated in the beginning – it just made the whole thing a bit more human.
‘But I forget it all as soon as I walk into one because I get so nervous.’
She said: ‘My mum has always been someone who remains absolutely still and calm when things start to hit the roof, and I try to mirror that.’
Lucy’s mum, and in fact her entire family of journalists, have also set the example of how to cope with an unpredictable career.
She explained: ‘I’ve grown up in a very creative environment, but also one that doesn’t follow a specific structure – and that’s been freeing, because when my job hasn’t followed a specific path there’s been no panic.’
She made her screen debut playing a young Beatrix Potter in the biopic Miss Potter 1t the age of 12.
She has said her former girls’ grammar school prepared its students for a male-dominated work world.
Speaking to The Sunday Times’s Style magazine in 2019, she told how everything she learned at the unnamed London private school ‘was in terms of men’ and that it was ‘assumed’ the female pupils would go on to have male bosses.
The 29-year-old actress has gone on to star in a number of steamy scenes, including in the TV drama The Politician
Meanwhile she made her big break when she starred in Bohemian Rhapsody alongside future boyfriend Remi Malek
The 29-year-old is next set to appear as the late Mary Antoinette, the late Queen of France in the biopic Chevalier, which is sure to see her star rise even higher
‘That kind of school is a prime opportunity to encourage girls to feel bold in their presence and place in the world,’ she told the publication.
‘But we weren’t taught that. Everything we learnt was in terms of men, with the assumption that we would have male bosses.
‘And you realise later how awful that is, and how detrimental that is to a girl’s self-worth.’
However Boynton did acknowledge the school was ‘flexible’ when it came to her burgeoning acting career, adding: ‘I’m also here because of them.’
After appearing in Miss Potter, there followed roles in TV adaptations of Ballet Shoes and Sense & Sensibility, before she put the acting on hold to finish school.
‘I was not the decider of taking that time off,’ she told You magazine. ‘It was my teachers and parents who said, “Take a break and do your GCSEs.” I thought, “Great, I will and then I’ll dip right back in” – but obviously then I had to start from scratch.’
It is her elder sister Emma-Louise who Lucy credits with awakening her as a feminist.
She explained: ‘When I was 16 or 17, she came home from uni and handed me the book C*** [by Inga Muscio], and was like, “The patriarchy is taking advantage of you.”’
‘I’m so lucky to have her to educate me. I’m so sensitive, I’m very porous, and I really feel my way through the world, whereas she’s much more analytical and practical.’
‘Yeah, when I was younger I was very conscious of not wanting to be in anyone’s way on set, but from Bohemian Rhapsody I learned that people want to talk to you about what’s going on.
She made her screen debut playing a young Beatrix Potter in the biopic Miss Potter 1t the age of 12
‘You can ask a cameraman what lens they are using – I was much too timid to do that before – and they’re often enthusiastic about wanting to teach you.’
As an adult, Lucy’s notable roles have seen her work alongside Judi Dench and Kenneth Branagh in Murder on the Orient Express and star as ruthless teenager Astrid Sloan alongside Gwyneth Paltrow in the Netflix series The Politician.
In the series, she appeared in lesbian romps and threesomes with her co-stars Ben Platt and David Corenswet.
Meanwhile she met future boyfriend Remi Malek and landed her first blockbuster role when she appeared in the Freddie Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody.
Bohemian Rhapsody was the film that cemented Lucy Boynton’s status as a leading Hollywood actress.
Playing Freddie Mercury’s partner and devoted best friend Mary Austin, Lucy received critical plaudits and award nominations, all while the film cleaned up at the box office – becoming the biggest biopic of all time.
It felt like the ‘arrival moment’ for someone who has been working since she was just 12 years old.
In 2021, she filmed Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, an Agatha Christie miniseries adapted and directed by Hugh Laurie; Chevalier, in which she plays Marie Antoinette, and The Ipcress File, an ITV adaptation of Len Deighton’s 1962 novel.
The 29-year-old British star, who was born in New York, has also appeared in ITV drama Ipcress File
Meanwhile the actress also appeared as Frankie Derwent in the ITV show Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
She has a quiet determination which has been a good training ground for her future roles – as Frankie in the aforementioned Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? and Marie Antoinette in Chevalier.
At some point, she’ll take on the role of another fierce woman – rock ’n’ roll legend Marianne Faithfull, in a biopic for which Lucy will also be executive producer.
It’s a project she’s excited about, but filming has been delayed repeatedly by the pandemic.
She said: ‘I don’t know the timeline for it now, but I feel grateful that we’ve had this extra time to work on it, and I feel increasingly confident about it.’
She is a woman divided by two countries: on the one hand she is an American – not just born there but spending long periods of her life living and working there.
She is dating an American – her Bohemian Rhapsody co-star Rami – but stays tight-lipped about their romances in interviews.
The two shared at the Oscars after he won the Best Actor award for Bohemian Rhapsody in 2019.
She is dating an American – her Bohemian Rhapsody co-star Rami – but stays tight-lipped about their romances in interviews (pictured together at Wimbledon last year)
When his name was announced, he turned straight to her and the couple embraced.
He also concluded his acceptance speech with the words: ‘Lucy Boynton: you are the heart of this film, you are beyond immensely talented, you have captured my heart. Thank you so much.’
She previously revealed: ‘It sounds so silly but I was really unaware of the public element of that.
‘You’re just absorbing, millisecond by millisecond, what is happening, and then suddenly you hear the applause and you realise it’s been a public moment, which is slightly strange.’
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