Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 16, 1984
Place of Birth
Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Credits
52 titles
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
Filmography
Ink
Joyce Hopkirk
Savage House
Lady Savage
The Magic Faraway Tree
Polly Thompson
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers
Self
All of Us Strangers
Mum
Mog's Christmas
Mrs. Thomas (voice)
Children of the Taliban
Narrator
Women Talking
Salome
A Very British Scandal
Margaret Campbell
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Emily Wain
My Son
Joan Richmond
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Self
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Self
Lungs
W
The Girl in the Spider's Web
Lisbeth Salander
First Man
Janet Shearon
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
Self
Unsane
Sawyer Valentini
Breathe
Diana Cavendish
The Crown
Queen Elizabeth II
The Lady in the Van
Lois, Social Worker
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Wolf Hall
Anne Boleyn
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Rosewater
Paola
Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night
Narrator
The Great War: The People's Story
Helen Bentwich
Crossbones
Kate Balfour
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
Vampire Academy
Sonya Karp
White Heat
Charlotte
Hacks
Kate Loy
Wreckers
Dawn
The Night Watch
Helen Giniver
The Promise
Erin Matthews
Season of the Witch
The Girl
Upstairs Downstairs
Lady Persephone Towyn
Pulse
Hannah Carter
Going Postal
Adora Belle Dearheart
10 Minute Tales
Woman
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
Little Dorrit
Amy Dorrit
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Who Do You Think You Are?
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
Migrations
Franny Stone