Claire Foy

Claire Foy

  • Birthday: 1984-04-16
  • Place of birth: Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK
  • Also know as: Клер Фой

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.

Filmography

Unsane

2018

As Sawyer Valentini

Pulse

2010

As Hannah Carter

The Girl in the Spider's Web

2018

As Lisbeth Salander

Lungs

2020

As W

Migrations

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As Franny Stone

The Pisces

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As Lucy

Children of the Taliban

2023

As Narrator

H Is for Hawk

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As Helen Macdonald

Wreckers

2011

As Dawn

Hacks

2012

As Kate Loy

The Night Watch

2011

As Helen Giniver

Breathe

2017

As Diana Cavendish

First Man

2018

As Janet Shearon

My Son

2021

As Joan Richmond

Women Talking

2022

As Salome

Savage House

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As Lady Savage

Mog's Christmas

2023

As Mrs. Thomas (voice)

Season of the Witch

2011

As The Girl

Rosewater

2014

As Paola

Vampire Academy

2014

As Sonya Karp

The Lady in the Van

2015

As Lois, Social Worker

Production

Migrations

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As Executive Producer

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