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Claire Foy
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Foy in 2018
Born (1984-04-16) 16 April 1984 (age 41)
Stockport, Greater Manchester, England
Occupation Actress
Years active 2002–present
Spouse(s)
Stephen Campbell Moore
(m. 2014; separated 2018)
Children 1
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Claire Elizabeth Foy (born on 16 April 1984) is a talented British actress. She is most famous for playing Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix TV show The Crown. For this role, she won many important awards, including a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Claire Foy started her acting career in 2008 in a TV show called Being Human. She also played the main character in the BBC One miniseries Little Dorrit. Her first movie role was in Season of the Witch in 2011.

She gained a lot of praise for her role as Anne Boleyn in the BBC miniseries Wolf Hall in 2015. Later, in 2018, she starred in the thriller movie Unsane. She also played Janet Shearon, the wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, in the movie First Man. For First Man, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs. More recently, she has appeared in the series A Very British Scandal (2021) and the films Women Talking (2022) and All of Us Strangers (2023).

Early life

Claire Elizabeth Foy was born in Stockport, England, on 16 April 1984. She is the youngest of three children. She has an older brother and an older sister. Claire grew up in different places like Manchester and Leeds. Her family later moved to Longwick, Buckinghamshire. Her parents divorced when she was eight years old.

Claire went to Aylesbury High School from age 12 until 2002. After high school, she studied drama at Liverpool John Moores University. She also took a special one-year course at the Oxford School of Drama, finishing in 2007. After her studies, she moved to south London with friends from drama school.

Career

Claire Foy in 2017
Claire Foy in October 2017

While studying at the Oxford School of Drama, Claire Foy acted in several plays. After her TV debut, she performed on stage for the first time in plays like DNA and The Miracle at the Royal National Theatre in London.

Foy played the main character, Amy Dorrit, in the BBC series Little Dorrit. She was nominated for an RTS Award for her performance. She also appeared in the TV film Going Postal and the adventure film Season of the Witch. Claire Foy also had roles in the BBC show Upstairs Downstairs and the Channel 4 series The Promise.

In 2013, she played Lady Macbeth in the play Macbeth at the Trafalgar Studios in London, acting alongside James McAvoy.

In 2015, Claire Foy played the English queen Anne Boleyn in the drama series Wolf Hall. Many people praised her acting in this role, calling it one of the best portrayals of Anne Boleyn. She was nominated for a British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.

In 2016, Foy took on the role of Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix drama series The Crown. Her performance earned her many major awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and two Primetime Emmy Awards. She also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series twice. She played the Queen for two seasons before Olivia Colman took over the role for the Queen's middle age. Claire Foy later returned to The Crown for guest appearances in later seasons, earning another Emmy for her guest role.

In 2017, Foy starred as Diana Cavendish in the true-story drama film Breathe.

In 2018, Claire Foy had a busy year. She starred in the psychological thriller Unsane. She also played the character Lisbeth Salander in the action-thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web. Additionally, she played Janet Shearon, the wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, in the movie First Man. For her role in First Man, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs.

In 2021, Foy played Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll in the BBC show A Very British Scandal. She also played Sheryl Sandberg, a real-life executive from Facebook, in a drama series called Doomsday Machine. In 2022, she starred in the film Women Talking, and in 2023, she appeared in All of Us Strangers, which earned her another BAFTA nomination.

Personal life

Claire Foy married actor Stephen Campbell Moore in 2014. They have one daughter together. They announced that they had separated in February 2018.

Acting credits

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2011 Season of the Witch Anna
Wreckers Dawn
2014 Vampire Academy Sonya Karp
Rosewater Paola Gourley
2015 The Lady in the Van Lois
2017 Breathe Diana Cavendish
2018 Unsane Sawyer Valentini
First Man Janet Armstrong
The Girl in the Spider's Web Lisbeth Salander
2021 The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Emily Richardson-Wain
My Son Joan Richmond
2022 Women Talking Salome
2023 All of Us Strangers Adam's mother
TBA Savage House Lady Savage Post-production
The Magic Faraway Tree Polly Post-production
H is for Hawk 0TBA Filming

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2008 Being Human Julia Beckett Episode: "Pilot"
Doctors Chloe Webster Episode: "The Party's Over"
Little Dorrit Amy Dorrit Title role
2009 10 Minute Tales Woman Episode: "Through the Window"
2010 Terry Pratchett's Going Postal Adora Belle Dearheart 2 episodes
Pulse Hannah Carter TV movie
2010–2012 Upstairs Downstairs Lady Persephone Towyn Main cast
2011 Promise, TheThe Promise Erin Matthews Main cast
Night Watch, TheThe Night Watch Helen Giniver TV movie
2012 Hacks Kate Loy TV movie
White Heat Charlotte Pew Main cast
2014 Crossbones Kate Balfour Main cast
The Great War: The People's Story Helen Bentwich 2 episodes
Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night Narrator TV movie
2015 Wolf Hall Anne Boleyn Main cast
2016–2017,
2020, 2022–2023
Crown, TheThe Crown Queen Elizabeth II Main cast (Seasons 1–2);
Guest role (Seasons 4–6)
2018 Saturday Night Live Herself (host) Episode: "Claire Foy/Anderson .Paak"
2021 A Very British Scandal Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll Main cast (miniseries)
2023 Mog's Christmas Mrs Thomas (voice) Animated Christmas special
2024 Marlow Evie Wyatt TV series
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Anne Boleyn Episode: "Wreckage" via archive footage

Theatre

Year Title Role Playwright Theatre Ref.
2008 DNA Jan Dennis Kelly National Theatre, London
2012 Love, Love, Love Rosie Mike Bartlett Royal Court Theatre, London
2012 Ding, Dong the Wicked Young Woman Caryl Churchill Royal Court Theatre, London
2013 Macbeth Lady Macbeth William Shakespeare Trafalgar Studios, London
2019 Lungs W Duncan Macmillan The Old Vic, London

Awards and nominations

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See also

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