Claire Foy

Known for ActingBorn 1984-04-16 (age 42)Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night

The Crown

Lungs

The Promise

Little Dorrit

GQ Presents: Iconic Characters

All of Us Strangers

Wolf Hall

Breathe

10 Minute Tales

Mog's Christmas

Upstairs Downstairs

H Is for Hawk

Going Postal

The Graham Norton Show

Children of the Taliban

Savage House

First Man

Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Women Talking

Who Do You Think You Are?

A Very British Scandal

The Great War: The People's Story

Saturday Night Live

The Lady in the Van

Rosewater

Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

The Magic Faraway Tree

Vampire Academy

Unsane

My Son

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

The Girl in the Spider's Web

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Crossbones

Hacks

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Night Watch

White Heat

Season of the Witch

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Wreckers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Pulse

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Ink