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Aliases: 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

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 22

TV Involvements: 11


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

The Crown
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8

The Crown

(2016) Young Queen Elizabeth II (archive footage)
All of Us Strangers
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8

All of Us Strangers

(2023) Mum
First Man
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7

First Man

(2018) Janet Shearon
Crossbones
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6

Crossbones

(2014) Kate Balfour
Little Dorrit
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8

Little Dorrit

(2008) Amy Dorrit
Upstairs Downstairs
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7

Upstairs Downstairs

(2010) Lady Persephone Towyn
Wolf Hall
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8

Wolf Hall

(2015) Anne Boleyn
A Very British Scandal
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7

A Very British Scandal

(2021) Margaret Campbell

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Self
2023 Mum
Mrs. Thomas (voice)
Narrator
2022 Salome
2021 Margaret Campbell
Emily Wain
Joan Richmond
Self
2020 Self
W
2018 Lisbeth Salander
Janet Shearon
Sawyer Valentini
2017 Diana Cavendish
2016 Queen Elizabeth II
Young Elizabeth / Young Queen Elizabeth II
Young Queen Elizabeth II (archive footage)
2015 Lois, Social Worker
Self
Self
Anne Boleyn
2014 Self
Paola
Narrator
Helen Bentwich
Kate Balfour
Self
Self
Sonya Karp
2012 Charlotte
Kate Loy
2011 Dawn
Helen Giniver
Erin Matthews
The Girl
2010 Lady Persephone Towyn
Hannah Carter
Adora Belle Dearheart
2009 N/A
Self - Guest
N/A
2008 Amy Dorrit
2007 Self
2004 N/A
1975 Self - Host
Lucy
Franny Stone
N/A
Helen Macdonald
Lady Savage
Polly Thompson
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
Executive Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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