Rami Malek is officially an Oscar winner. The actor took home the award for Best Actor for his role as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody through the Oscars’ 2019 ceremony, but his status as an Academy Award recipient isn’t the one thing that’s modified due to the film. He’s also officially official together with his co-star and love interest Lucy Boynton. Here, a breakdown of the couple’s now three-year romance.
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January 2018
After filming Bohemian Rhapsody together in 2017, Malek and Boynton began making red carpet appearances together. In January 2018, they made their public debut, attending a celebration in London for the ALEXACHUNG Unbelievable collection.
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February 2018
The next month, they went to a Super Bowl party in Minneapolis. The soon-to-be public couple looked cozy but kept any indication that they were a romantic item to a minimum.
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March 2018
In March, they hit up Paris Fashion Week. Sitting front row at Miu Miu, they very much kept their hands to themselves.
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April 2018
A couple of months after their initial red carpet appearance, Us Weekly confirmed that the 2 co-stars are, in truth, dating. “They met while filming Bohemian Rhapsody in London,” a source told the magazine. “He’s so into her. He goes and visits her in London on a regular basis.”
October 2018
The couple showed somewhat more outward affection for one another while attending the Louis Vuitton and Virgil Abloh London pop-up. Malek had his arm wrapped around Boynton’s shoulder on the red carpet.
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November 2018
Malek and Boynton attended the Governors Awards in Hollywood the next month to advertise the film but kept it skilled for the red carpet.
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January 2019
Malek made his first public remarks on his latest relationship through the Palm Springs International Film Festival in early January. While giving his acceptance speech for the Breakthrough Performance Award, Malek told the audience, “Thanks, Lucy Boynton. You’ve gotten been my ally, my confidant, my love. Thanks a lot.”
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A couple of days later, the couple walked the red carpet on the Golden Globes, where Malek took home the award for Best Actor. Boynton was photographed hugging and holding hands with Malek at an after party as they celebrated his win.
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Shortly after the Globes, the couple were spotted by paparazzi having a date night in Los Angeles. Malek kept his arm wrapped around Boynton’s waist, his apparent go-to PDA move.
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The following week, Malek and Boynton took a serious latest step of their coupledom, wearing matching pale blue looks to present on the Critics Selection Awards. By the tip of award season, Malek and Boynton were recurrently coordinating outfits at events.
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At the tip of January, the couple joined the remainder of the Bohemian Rhapsody solid on the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where Boynton hugged her boyfriend when he won the award for Best Actor.
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Malek and Boynton took a break from awards season events to take a seat courtside at a Lakers basketball game. The couple naturally shied away from any overt displays of affection but were photographed smiling and laughing throughout. Basketball is hilarious.
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February 2019
The couple then jetted off to London where they walked the red carpet for the BAFTA Awards. Once more, Malek took home the trophy for Best Actor.
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Finally, the Oscars two weeks later: The couple walked the red carpet together and, after all, sat next to one another within the audience. As Malek was announced the winner of Best Actor, Malek kissed his co-star/girlfriend (in public!) before he took the stage to just accept his Academy Award. When he made his acceptance speech, he gave Boynton a heartfelt shoutout, too. “Lucy Boynton, you are the center of this film,” he said. “You’re beyond immensely talented. You’ve gotten capture my heart. Thanks a lot.”
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Malek reportedly fell on the best way back to his seat and needed to be seen by paramedics before being given the OK to party the night away. The person is literally head over heels.
April 2019
The newly-minted Oscar winner and his love attended a Cartier event in Paris, looking chic as they posed for pictures on the red carpet.
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May 2019
A star couple rite of passage, Boynton and Malek made an appearance on the Met Gala. Although, they selected to forgo walking the red carpet together.
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August 2019
Malek and Boynton were spotted leaving London’s Century Club while holding hands. The identical month each actor does an interview where they allude to their relationship. During Malek’s GQ interview, he purchases Boynton a Schmidt’s Jasmine Tea deodorant. Meanwhile, Boynton attributes her calm response to Malek kissing her on the Oscars to having a handful of CBD candies beforehand, while talking to The Cut.
“Him winning for his performance was like winning for the tip of the iceberg of every little thing he had done,”Boynton told the publication. “You type of forget that there are lots of of other people within the room.” She also told a shaggy dog story about going to a vintage store with Malek when he commented on her style:
“I held up a dress and he said, ‘Why are you mostly trying to decorate like a 12-year-old ghost?’”
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In his GQ interview, Malek shared that his longtime girlfriend is a “bath taker,” and he bought her a necklace in addition to the perfume-like deodorant. He cleverly has a salesman wrap the deodorant in a jewellery box and puts the shiny gift within the Goop bag. “Good,” he said. “This can be funny. She’ll think I’m being goofy.”
“She’ll be so ‘happy,’ ” he said of the jewellery, reportedly putting the very British word in air quotes.
September 2019
The couple kicked the month off by attending the Venice Film Festival together. In spite of everything, the couples who gondola together, stay together.
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In an interview with Net-A-Porter’s Porter, Boynton explains that fan fervor surrounding her boyfriend can take a toll. “It’s lovely to see people who find themselves enthusiastic about his work — in the event that they’ve seen Mr. Robot or [the] Freddie [Mercury biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody] — nevertheless it’s just that thing of individuals grabbing him,” she explained. “I mean, you’d never grab a whole stranger on the street. And I believe there is a sense of ownership.”
Malek was right by Boynton’s side for the premiere of her latest Netflix series, The Politician. Each looked stylish and glad, proving that their love is not going anywhere.
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October 2019
The couple showed up on the red carpet again on the Recent York City premiere of season 4 (the ultimate season) ofMr. Robot. Boynton wore a black dress with a ruffled collar as she posed with Malek on the step-and-repeat.
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Additionally they hung out with the show’s co-executive producer, Kyle Bradstreet, and the three took photos together.
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Malek told Entertainment Tonight that evening that the premiere of the fourth and final season was “a tremendously emotional experience.”
November 2019
On Black Friday this past November, the couple hung out together at one other Los Angeles Lakers basketball game on the Staples Center. Boynton wore a black mock turtleneck dress paired with black tights and platform shoes while Malek wore an all-black suit with a red sweatshirt underneath.
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The normally coy couple sat courtside as they laughed and smiled on date night.
January 2020
Malek and Boynton began off the yr by returning to the award show circuit. The 2 attended the Golden Globes together. Boynton dressed stylishly in a silver metallic dress, while Malek complemented her in a black suit.
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February 2020
Ahead of the coronavirus pandemic, Malek and Boynton attended the Oscars and Vanity Fair after party together. They held hands on the Oscars red carpet, in a rare show of PDA:
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July 2020
Malek and Boynton spent months probably not being photographed out together through the starting of the pandemic. At the tip of July, they were seen out in London, grabbing dinner at Cay Tre in Soho with Boynton’s friends.
August 2020
Malek and Boynton were photographed again in London, signaling their relationship was still very much on. The 2 appeared with their friend Ben Hardy. They were seen grabbing dinner at Brasserie of Light.
April 2021
Malek sparked rumors all will not be well between him and Boynton when he was photographed without Boynton in Miami, partying with friends and a bunch of ladies. An eyewitness made it clear to E! though that no questionable behavior was happening. Malek was “in an excellent mood and didn’t appear to outwardly flirt or be romantic with any of the ladies.”
On April 22, Boynton and Malek subtly confirmed that their romance was just high quality once they were photographed spending time together on the Hotel Esplanade in Zagreb, Croatia. Boynton had been working in town, filming her upcoming mini series The Ipcress File, and Malek traveled to see her.
July 2022
On July 8, Boynton and Malek made an appearance in London on the Wimbledon Tennis Championships on the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on day 12 of Wimbledon. They were there to look at Novak Djokovic face off against Cameron Norrie in the boys’s singles semifinal match.
The sport was clearly exciting, and Malek and Boynton seemed deeply engaged within the play.
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After they weren’t totally engaged in one another.
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The pair were also seated with long-term celebrity couple Regé-Jean Page and Emily Brown. Everyone was dressed their best, with Boynton wearing a white scalloped, sleeveless mini dress with a black bow detail on the collar. Malek wore a black suit with a blue tie, and a blue and white striped button-up that completely complimented his girlfriend’s look.
September 2022
On Friday, September 2, Lucy Boynton was given the Nouvel Hollywood on the 2022 Deauville Film Festival held on the CID in Deauville, France. Rami Malek was spotted in the gang giving Boynton a standing ovation before she headed backstage for photos.
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February 2023
After the 20233 BAFTA awards in London, Malek and Boynton were seen together at Netflix’s star-studded afterparty on the Chiltern Firehouse on Sunday, February 19. Malek wore a black tuxedo for the red carpet event, over a vivid white button down shirt and black tie.
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Boyton was also in black, wearing a modern mini-dress and a pair of polka-dot tights. She accessorized with black suede boots and a cross-body bag.
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