Boden was born in Surrey and grew up in Hampshire. She has two sisters. She began her career as a child model when she was nine before moving into television commercials and short films. She was homeschooled to make time for her career.
Boden made her television debut as Beatrice Selfridge in the second and third series of the ITV period drama Mr Selfridge. She won the Rising Star award at the 2016 London Short Film Festival for her performance in the drama The Earth Belongs to No One. That same year, she starred as Elaine Wiltshire in the Canadian YTV series Ride about an equestrian school in England.
In 2017, Boden played a young version of the titular person Elizabeth Smart in the Lifetime biographical film I Am Elizabeth Smart, for which Boden was nominated for Best Actress in a Television Movie or Limited Series at the following year's Critics' Choice Awards.

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