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Claire Foy
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 deb…
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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.
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Movie Jules Davies
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2026
Savage House
Movie Lady Savage
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2026
The Magic Faraway Tree
Movie Polly Thompson
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2025
H Is for Hawk
Movie Helen
- 2024
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2023
All of Us Strangers
Movie Mum
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2023
Mog's Christmas
Movie Mrs. Thomas (voice)
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2023
Children of the Taliban
Movie Narrator
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2022
Women Talking
Movie Salome
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2021
A Very British Scandal
TV show Margaret Campbell
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2021
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Movie Emily Wain
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2021
My Son
Movie Joan Richmond
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2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Movie Self
- 2020
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2020
Lungs
Movie W
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2018
The Girl in the Spider's Web
Movie Lisbeth Salander
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2018
First Man
Movie Janet Shearon
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2018
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
TV show Self
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2018
Unsane
Movie Sawyer Valentini
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2017
Breathe
Movie Diana Cavendish
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2016
The Crown
TV show Queen Elizabeth II
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2015
The Lady in the Van
Movie Lois, Social Worker
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2015
Wolf Hall
TV show Anne Boleyn
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
Rosewater
Movie Paola
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2014
Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night
Movie Narrator
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2014
The Great War: The People's Story
TV show Helen Bentwich
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2014
Crossbones
TV show Kate Balfour
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
Vampire Academy
Movie Sonya Karp
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2012
White Heat
TV show Charlotte
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2012
Hacks
Movie Kate Loy
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2011
Wreckers
Movie Dawn
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2011
Going Postal 2in1
Movie Adora Belle Dearheart
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2011
The Night Watch
Movie Helen Giniver
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2011
The Promise
TV show Erin Matthews
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2011
Season of the Witch
Movie The Girl
