Claire Foy

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1984-04-16 (40 years old)

Place of Birth Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Also Known As Клер Фой, 클레어 포이, Κλερ Ελίζαμπεθ Φόι, Κλερ Φόι, Claire Elizabeth Foy, クレア・フォイ, 克萊兒・芙伊

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. Description above from the Wikipedia Claire Foy licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Actor

H Is for Hawk

as Helen Macdonald

Savage House

as Lady Savage

The Magic Faraway Tree

as Polly Thompson

Migrations

as Franny Stone

The Pisces

as Lucy

2023
Mog's Christmas

as Mrs. Thomas (voice)

2023
2022
Women Talking

as Salome

2021
My Son

as Joan Richmond

2021
A Very British Scandal

as Margaret Campbell

2020
Lungs

as W

2018
The Girl in the Spider's Web

as Lisbeth Salander

2018
First Man

as Janet Shearon

2018
Unsane

as Sawyer Valentini

2017
Breathe

as Diana Cavendish

2016
The Crown

as Queen Elizabeth II

2016
The Crown

as Young Elizabeth / Young Queen Elizabeth II

2016
The Crown

as Young Queen Elizabeth II (archive footage)

2015
The Lady in the Van

as Lois, Social Worker

2015
Wolf Hall

as Anne Boleyn

2014
Rosewater

as Paola

2014
Vampire Academy

as Sonya Karp

2014
2014
Crossbones

as Kate Balfour

2012
Hacks

as Kate Loy

2012
White Heat

as Charlotte

2011
Wreckers

as Dawn

2011
The Night Watch

as Helen Giniver

2011
2011
The Promise

as Erin Matthews

2010
Pulse

as Hannah Carter

2010
Upstairs Downstairs

as Lady Persephone Towyn

2010
Going Postal

as Adora Belle Dearheart

2008
Little Dorrit

as Amy Dorrit

1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

Producer

Migrations

as Executive Producer