Claire Elizabeth Foy was born on 16 April 1984 and is a British actress.
26 Facts About Claire Foy
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Claire Foy is best known for her portrayal of the young Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of the Netflix series The Crown for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
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Claire Elizabeth Foy was born in Stockport on 16 April 1984, the youngest of three children.
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Claire Foy has an older brother, Robert, and an older sister, Gemma.
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Claire Foy has said that her mother, Caroline, comes from a "massive" Irish family; her maternal grandparents are from Dublin and Kildare.
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Claire Foy grew up in Manchester and Leeds, and the family later moved to Longwick, Buckinghamshire, for her father's job as a Rank Xerox salesman.
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Claire Foy was educated at Aylesbury High School from the age of 12 and later studied drama at Liverpool John Moores University.
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Claire Foy took a one-year course at the Oxford School of Drama, graduating in 2007 and moving to the Peckham area of south London to share a house with five friends from drama school.
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Claire Foy starred as the protagonist, Amy Dorrit, in the BBC series Little Dorrit.
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Claire Foy went on to appear in the TV film Going Postal and the horror adventure film Season of the Witch.
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Claire Foy starred in the BBC revival of Upstairs Downstairs as Lady Persephone, and co-starred in the Channel 4 serial The Promise, broadcast in February 2011.
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Claire Foy played a lead role, Helen, in the TV movie The Night Watch, which was based on a Sarah Waters novel.
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Claire Foy returned to the stage in February 2013 as Lady Macbeth, alongside James McAvoy in the title role, in Macbeth at the Trafalgar Studios.
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In 2015, Claire Foy played the English queen Anne Boleyn in the six-part drama serial Wolf Hall.
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Claire Foy's performance was met with critical praise and compared to Genevieve Bujold's performance in Anne of the Thousand Days.
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Claire Foy was nominated for the 2016 British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
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In 2016, Claire Foy portrayed the young Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's Netflix biographical drama series The Crown.
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Claire Foy was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress.
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Also in 2017, Claire Foy starred as Diana Cavendish in the biographical drama film Breathe.
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In 2018, Claire Foy starred in Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller Unsane, portrayed the vigilante Lisbeth Salander in the action-thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web, and played Janet Shearon, wife of American astronaut Neil Armstrong, in Damien Chazelle's biopic First Man.
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In 2020, Claire Foy reprised the role of the young Queen Elizabeth II in the eighth episode of The Crowns fourth season.
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Claire Foy's performance earned her the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
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In 2021, Claire Foy starred as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll in the BBC production A Very British Scandal.
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In October 2021, Claire Foy was cast as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in the drama series Doomsday Machine, based on the book Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang.
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In November 2022, Claire Foy reprised the role of the young Queen Elizabeth in the season five premiere of The Crown.
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In 2021, Claire Foy was targeted by a stalker, who sent her more than 1,000 emails in one month and turned up at her house; the stalker, Jason Penrose, pleaded guilty in November 2022, and received a suspended sentence pending repatriation to the United States.