Claire Foy

Claire Foy

actress, producer

Claire Foy was born on Apr 16, 1984 in UK. Claire Foy's big-screen debut came with Little Dorrit - Season 1 directed by Adam Smith in 2008. Claire Foy is known for Women Talking directed by Sarah Polley, Rooney Mara stars as Ona and Judith Ivey as Agata. Claire Foy has got 12 awards and 57 nominations so far. The most recent award Claire Foy achieved is Film Independent Spirit Awards. The upcoming new movie Claire Foy plays is Women Talking which will be released on Jan 06, 2023.

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".

  • Birthday

    Apr 16, 1984
  • Place of Birth

    Stockport, England, UK
  • Also known

    Клер Фой, 클레어 포이, Κλερ Ελίζαμπεθ Φόι, Κλερ Φόι, Claire Elizabeth Foy

Known For

Awards

12 wins & 57 nominations

Film Independent Spirit Awards
2023
Women Talking (2022)
Winner - Robert Altman Award
Primetime Emmy Awards
2021
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Winner - Primetime Emmy
2018
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Winner - Primetime Emmy
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