Woman Crush Wednesday: Look Out for Lucy Boynton in ‘The Pale Blue Eye’

Happy New Year, everyone! 2023 already has plenty to look forward to, but one exciting thing that we can celebrate right now is our very first Woman Crush Wednesday of the year. We’re making it our resolution to continue to shout out the laudable ladies leading the way in all of the best new titles coming out on all your favorite streamers. This week, we’re kicking things off by talking about an amazing actress who has been putting in consistently hard work and delivering varied, engrossing performances on screens big and small for over 15 years and counting. So, without further ado, give it up for your first WCW of the year, the brilliant Lucy Boynton!

WHO’S THAT GAL: Lucy Boynton

WHY WE’RE CRUSHING: Boynton plays Lea Marquis in The Pale Blue Eye, an upcoming Netflix Original title that premieres on the platform this Friday, on January 6. The film is a gothic horror mystery that takes place in 1830 and follows seasoned detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) as he, with the help of young cadet Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling), looks into a series of murders at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. In addition to Bale, Melling, and Boynton, the film also features Gillian Anderson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall, Robert Duvall, and Gideon Glick, so be sure to catch their thrilling work in The Pale Blue Eye as soon as it drops this week, only on Netflix.

WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HER BEFORE: Boynton’s professional onscreen career began in 2006, when she played Young Beatrix Potter in biographical drama film Miss Potter. Then over the next few years, she began steadily building up her filmography with appearances in shows like Sense & Sensibility, Inspector Lewis, and Borgia, as well as in TV movies like 2007 musical family-drama Ballet Shoes and 2010 biographical drama Mo. From there, Boynton continued to accumulate quality work with roles in TV shows like Endeavour, Law & Order: UK, and Life in Squares, and in films like 2015 supernatural psychological horror The Blackcoat’s Daughter, 2016 musical coming-of-age comedy-drama Sing Street, 2016 gothic supernatural horror I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, and 2016 supernatural horror Don’t Knock Twice.

By 2017, Boynton was taking her career to the next level the main role of Allison Adams in drama series Gypsy and additional work as Claire Douglas in biographical drama film Rebel in the Rye, Emily in drama film Let Me Go, and Countess Helena Andrenyi in mystery Murder on the Orient Express. And if she wasn’t a household name at the time, then she definitely became one a year later with her big role as Mary Austin in Academy Award-winning biographical musical drama film Bohemian Rhapsody. Since then, she has only continued to kill it in shows like The Politician, Modern Love, The Ipcress File, and Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, and in films like 2018 period folk horror Apostle, 2021 heist rom-com Locked Down, and 2022 biographical drama Chevalier. We have no doubt that Boynton has even more incredible performances ahead of her, and we can’t wait to see all that she pursues and creates in the years to come.

WHERE YOU’LL SEE HER AGAIN: Luckily, you don’t have to wait too much longer to see more from Boynton. Look forward to seeing her star in upcoming fantasy comedy-drama The Greatest Hits, a love story that follows the magical connection between music and memory and how they can sometimes literally transport us to a whole new world or state of being.

In the meantime, be sure to follow the actress on Instagram now so that you never miss a moment from your wonderful WCW!