1. Erin Rachael Doherty was born on 16 July 1992 and is a British actress who played the young Princess Anne in the third and fourth seasons of the Netflix drama The Crown.
18 Facts About Erin Doherty
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Erin Doherty has featured in Chloe, Reawakening, A Thousand Blows, and Adolescence.
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Erin Rachael Doherty is of Irish heritage and is from Crawley in West Sussex.
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Erin Doherty began acting in Sunday drama classes with her older sister Grace shortly afterwards.
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Erin Doherty took a one-year course at the Guildford School of Acting before training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Whilst training, Erin Doherty won the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Award in 2015 for her rendition of "Broadway Baby" from the Sondheim musical Follies.
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Erin Doherty's performances have consistently attracted positive reviews from leading theatre critics.
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Erin Doherty starred in Jack Thorne's play Junkyard, which led What's On Stage reviewer Kris Hallett to write "Erin Doherty is the star here, and by rights will soon be a star full-stop".
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Erin Doherty's leading performance in Alan Ayckbourn's play The Divide at the Old Vic Theatre was described by Dominic Cavendish for The Daily Telegraph as having "star-wattage as bright as anything".
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In 2018, Erin Doherty was a Screen International Star of Tomorrow, and an Evening Standard Rising Star.
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In 2019, Erin Doherty appeared as Princess Anne in the third season of The Crown.
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Erin Doherty knew little about the princess before being cast, and consequently spent hours studying Anne's family history and life.
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Erin Doherty made a point of only watching footage of the princess at the age she was portraying her, rather than interviews of Anne in later life.
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Anne's voice is very different from Erin Doherty's, being much lower in pitch; the actress spent time carefully learning and mimicking it, finding that it "was the key into her psyche".
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Erin Doherty reprised her role as Princess Anne in the fourth season of the series.
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Erin Doherty was cast to portray Anne Askew in the historical drama film Firebrand in 2023.
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Lucy Mangan of The Guardian named the third episode the miniseries' "most astounding", declaring that Erin Doherty was "surely emerging as one of the best actors of her generation".
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Erin Doherty is a lesbian and was in a relationship with fellow actress Sophie Melville.