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Claire Foy(I)

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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 gained international recognition for portraying the young Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of the Netflix series The Crown (2016-2017), for which she won a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, 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, she was nominated for the BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.

Foy was born in Stockport. She has said that her mother, Caroline, comes from "a massive Irish family". Her maternal grandparents were from Dublin and Kildare, respectively. She grew up in Manchester and Leeds, the youngest of three children. Her family later moved to Longwick, Buckinghamshire, for her father's job as a salesman for Rank Xerox. Her parents divorced when she was eight.

Foy attended Aylesbury High School, a girls' grammar school, from the age of twelve; she then 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 Peckham to share a house "with five friends from drama school".
BornApril 16, 1984
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  • Won 2 Primetime Emmys

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Paul Bettany and Claire Foy in Episode #1.3 (2021)
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Claire Foy in Episode #1.3 (2021)
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Claire Foy in Episode #1.1 (2021)
Paul Bettany and Claire Foy in Episode #1.1 (2021)

Known for

Ryan Gosling in First Man (2018)
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  • Janet Armstrong
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Sylvia Hoeks and Claire Foy in The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
The Girl in the Spider's Web
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  • Lisbeth Salander
  • 2018
Claire Foy in Unsane (2018)
Unsane
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  • Sawyer Valentini
  • 2018
Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, and Elizabeth Debicki in The Crown (2016)
The Crown
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  • Queen Elizabeth II
  • Young Elizabeth
  • Young Queen Elizabeth II

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  • Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, and Elizabeth Debicki in The Crown (2016)
    The Crown
  • Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Jessie Buckley in Women Talking (2022)
    Women Talking
  • Paul Bettany and Claire Foy in A Very British Scandal (2021)
    A Very British Scandal
  • James McAvoy and Claire Foy in My Son (2021)
    My Son
  • Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
    The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
  • Sasheer Zamata in Saturday Night Live: Cut for Time (2013)
    Saturday Night Live: Cut for Time
  • Sylvia Hoeks and Claire Foy in The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
    The Girl in the Spider's Web
  • Ryan Gosling in First Man (2018)
    First Man
  • Claire Foy in Unsane (2018)
    Unsane
  • Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy in Breathe (2017)
    Breathe
  • Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings in The Lady in the Van (2015)
    The Lady in the Van
  • Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance in Wolf Hall (2015)
    Wolf Hall
  • Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night (2014)
    Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night
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  • The Great War: The People's Story (2014)
    The Great War: The People's Story

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  • Paul Bettany and Claire Foy in A Very British Scandal (2021)
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Emmys 2018: A Proposal Threat, A Mystery Man & the Night's Best Surprises
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Emmys 2018: A Proposal Threat, A Mystery Man & the Night's Best Surprises
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Personal details

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    • April 16, 1984
    • Stockport, England, UK
    • Stephen Campbell MooreDecember 2014 - present (filed for divorce, 1 child)
  • Other works
    Made her stage debut as Jan in "DNA" by Dennis Kelly in rep with "The Miracle" by Lin Coghlan - National Theatre, London
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    • 4 Articles
    • 2 Pictorials
    • 11 Magazine Cover Photos

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    Is just 13 years younger than Victoria Hamilton, who played her mother on The Crown (2016).
  • Quotes
    When I got the audition for "Macbeth", it's awful to say it but I can see what leads her to do what she does. Her husband's destiny has been proclaimed and she says "You've got to meet it." Which women do all the time.

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