Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 16, 1984
Place of Birth:
Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK
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Claire Foy
Biography
Claire Elizabeth Foy (born 16 April 1984) is an English actress. She studied acting at the Liverpool John Moores University and the Oxford School of Drama, and made her screen debut in the pilot of the supernatural comedy series Being Human, in 2008. Following her professional stage debut at the Royal National Theatre, she played the title role in the BBC One miniseries Little Dorrit (2008) and made her film debut in the American historical fantasy drama Season of the Witch (2011). Following leading roles in the television series The Promise (2011) and Crossbones (2014), Foy received praise for portraying the ill-fated queen Anne Boleyn in the miniseries Wolf Hall (2015).
Foy was educated at Aylesbury High School from the age of 12 and later attended Liverpool John Moores University, studying drama and screen studies. She also trained in a one-year course at the Oxford School of Drama. She graduated in 2007 and moved to London's Peckham district to share a house with five friends from drama school. While at the Oxford School of Drama, Foy appeared in the plays Top Girls, Watership Down, Easy Virtue, and Touched. After appearing on television, she made her professional stage debut in DNA and The Miracle, two of a trio of single acts directed by Paul Miller at the Royal National Theatre in London (the third was Baby Girl).
Foy gained international recognition for portraying the young Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of the Netflix series The Crown, for which she won a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy, among other awards. In 2018, she starred in Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller Unsane and portrayed Janet Shearon, wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, in Damien Chazelle's biopic First Man. For the latter role, she was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Magic Faraway Tree | Polly Thompson |
| 2024 | On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers | Self |
| 2023 | Mog's Christmas | Mrs. Thomas (voice) |
| 2023 | Children of the Taliban | Narrator |
| 2023 | All of Us Strangers | Mum |
| 2022 | Women Talking | Salome |
| 2021 | The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Emily Wain |
| 2021 | My Son | Joan Richmond |
| 2021 | Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel | Self |
| 2020 | Lungs | W |
| 2020 | Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas | Self |
| 2018 | First Man | Janet Shearon |
| 2018 | Unsane | Sawyer Valentini |
| 2018 | The Girl in the Spider's Web | Lisbeth Salander |
| 2017 | Breathe | Diana Cavendish |
| 2015 | The Lady in the Van | Lois, Social Worker |
| 2014 | Vampire Academy | Sonya Karp |
| 2014 | Rosewater | Paola |
| 2014 | Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night | Narrator |
| 2012 | Hacks | Kate Loy |
| 2011 | Season of the Witch | The Girl |
| 2011 | Wreckers | Dawn |
| 2011 | The Night Watch | Helen Giniver |
| 2010 | Pulse | Hannah Carter |
| H Is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald | |
| Savage House | Lady Savage | |
| Migrations | Franny Stone | |
| The Pisces | Lucy |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | A Very British Scandal | Margaret Campbell |
| 2018 | GQ Presents: Iconic Characters | Self |
| 2016 | The Crown | Queen Elizabeth II |
| 2016 | The Crown | Young Elizabeth / Young Queen Elizabeth II |
| 2016 | The Crown | Young Queen Elizabeth II (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall | Anne Boleyn |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2015 | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self |
| 2014 | Crossbones | Kate Balfour |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self |
| 2014 | The Great War: The People's Story | Helen Bentwich |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2012 | White Heat | Charlotte |
| 2011 | The Promise | Erin Matthews |
| 2010 | Going Postal | Adora Belle Dearheart |
| 2010 | Upstairs Downstairs | Lady Persephone Towyn |
| 2009 | 10 Minute Tales | |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest |
| 2008 | Little Dorrit | Amy Dorrit |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2004 | Who Do You Think You Are? | |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| Marlow |