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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
April 16, 1984
Place of Birth
Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Also Known As
- Клер Фой
- 클레어 포이
- Κλερ Ελίζαμπεθ Φόι
- Κλερ Φόι
- Claire Elizabeth Foy
- クレア・フォイ
- 克萊兒・芙伊
- کلر فوی
Claire Foy
1.8 Popularity
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
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Polly Thompson
The Magic Faraway Tree
2025
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Self
On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers
2024
7.4
Mum
All of Us Strangers
2023
7.3
Mrs. Thomas (voice)
Mog's Christmas
2023
7.0
Narrator
Children of the Taliban
2023
6.9
Salome
Women Talking
2022
6.8
Margaret Campbell
A Very British Scandal
2021
6.9
Emily Wain
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
6.2
Joan Richmond
My Son
2021
7.0
Self
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
2021
Credits
The Magic Faraway Tree
as Polly Thompson
2025
0.0
🎬
On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers
as Self
2024
0.0
All of Us Strangers
as Mum
2023
7.4
Mog's Christmas
as Mrs. Thomas (voice)
2023
7.3
Children of the Taliban
as Narrator
2023
7.0
Women Talking
as Salome
2022
6.9
A Very British Scandal
as Margaret Campbell
2021
6.8
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
as Emily Wain
2021
6.9
My Son
as Joan Richmond
2021
6.2
Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
as Self
2021
7.0
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
as Self
2020
6.4
Lungs
as W
2020
8.0
The Girl in the Spider's Web
as Lisbeth Salander
2018
6.1
First Man
as Janet Shearon
2018
7.0
GQ Presents: Iconic Characters
as Self
2018
7.5
Unsane
as Sawyer Valentini
2018
6.3
Breathe
as Diana Cavendish
2017
7.4
The Crown
as Queen Elizabeth II
2016
8.2
The Crown
as Young Elizabeth / Young Queen Elizabeth II
2016
8.2
The Crown
as Young Queen Elizabeth II (archive footage)
2016
8.2
The Lady in the Van
as Lois, Social Worker
2015
6.4
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.3
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
5.7
Wolf Hall
as Anne Boleyn
2015
7.5
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.4
Rosewater
as Paola
2014
6.5
Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night
as Narrator
2014
9.1
The Great War: The People's Story
as Helen Bentwich
2014
6.1
Crossbones
as Kate Balfour
2014
6.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.8
Vampire Academy
as Sonya Karp
2014
6.3
White Heat
as Charlotte
2012
5.7
Hacks
as Kate Loy
2012
6.0
Wreckers
as Dawn
2011
5.3
The Night Watch
as Helen Giniver
2011
5.9
The Promise
as Erin Matthews
2011
7.9
Season of the Witch
as The Girl
2011
5.5
Upstairs Downstairs
as Lady Persephone Towyn
2010
7.4
Pulse
as Hannah Carter
2010
4.8
Going Postal
as Adora Belle Dearheart
2010
7.2
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10 Minute Tales
2009
7.5
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Little Dorrit
as Amy Dorrit
2008
7.8
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
6.7
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
6.9
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Marlow
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Savage House
as Lady Savage
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Migrations
as Franny Stone
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H Is for Hawk
as Helen Macdonald
N/A
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The Pisces
as Lucy
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