British actress Claire Elizabeth Foy was born on April 16, 1984. She gained fame for playing the youthful Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of the Netflix drama The Crown (2016–2017), for which she was honored with a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
In the first episode of the spooky comedy series Being Human (2008), Foy made her acting debut. She made her professional acting debut at the Royal National Theatre, and after that she appeared in the BBC One miniseries Little Dorrit (2008) as well as the 2011 American historical fantasy drama Season of the Witch, in which she played the titular role. Foy received accolades for her portrayal of the tragic queen Anne Boleyn in the BBC miniseries Wolf Hall (2015), which garnered her a nomination for a British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. This came after starring parts in the television series The Promise (2011) and Crossbones (2014).
She played in Steven Soderbergh's psychological suspense film Unsane in 2018 and took on the role of Janet Shearon, Neil Armstrong's wife, in Damien Chazelle's biopic First Man. She was nominated for both the BAFTA Award and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. She played Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll in the A Very British Scandal episode from the year 2021 on Amazon Prime, and in the drama movie Women Talking from the year 2022.
Early Life
On April 16, 1984, Claire Elizabeth Foy, the youngest of three children, was born in Stockport. Robert, an older brother, and Gemma, an older sister, are her siblings. Her maternal grandparents are from Dublin and Kildare, and she has claimed that her mother, Caroline, is descended from a "massive" Irish family. Her family eventually relocated to Longwick, Buckinghamshire, due to her father's employment as a Rank Xerox salesperson. She was born and raised in Manchester and Leeds. She was eight when her parents split up.
Foy attended Aylesbury High School beginning at age 12 before going on to Liverpool John Moores University to study acting. She also completed a year-long program at the Oxford School of Drama, graduating in 2007, and relocating to the Peckham neighborhood of south London to live with five drama school pals.
Career
Foy performed in the plays Top Girls, Watership Down, Easy Virtue, and Touched while attending the Oxford School of Drama. She made her professional theatrical debut after starring on television in the plays DNA and The Miracle, which were two of a trio of one-act plays directed by Paul Miller at the Royal National Theatre in London (the other was Baby Girl).
In the BBC series Little Dorrit, Foy played the lead character Amy Dorrit. She received an RTS Award nomination. She later made appearances in the horror-adventure movie Season of the Witch and the TV movie Going Postal. Additionally, Foy co-starred in the February 2011 broadcast of the Channel 4 serial The Promise and appeared as Lady Persephone in the BBC revival of Upstairs Downstairs.
Television Film
The Night Watch, which was based on a Sarah Waters novel, Foy played the lead character Helen. In Macbeth at the Trafalgar Studios in February 2013, she made her stage comeback as Lady Macbeth opposite James McAvoy in the titular role.
In the six-part drama series Wolf Hall, released in 2015, Foy portrayed the English empress Anne Boleyn. Critics praised her portrayal and linked it to Geneviève Bujold's in Anne of the Thousand Days. The 2016 British Academy Television Award for Best Actress was then nominated for Foy.
In the Netflix biographical drama series The Crown by Peter Morgan, which debuted in 2016, Foy played a teenage Queen Elizabeth II. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her work. She was also a finalist for the Best Actress BAFTA TV Award. She played the Queen again in the second season of the show in 2017, after which Olivia Colman took over and began playing the Queen in the third season. Foy played Diana Cavendish in the biographical drama film Breathe, which was released in 2017.
In 2018, Foy played the vigilante Lisbeth Salander in the action-thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web, the wife of American astronaut Neil Armstrong in Damien Chazelle's biopic First Man, and the psychological thriller Unsane with Steven Soderbergh. She received nominations for the latter for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture. In the eighth episode of The Crown's fourth season in 2020, Foy returned to the role of the youthful Queen Elizabeth II. She won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performance.
Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll was played by Foy in the BBC production of A Very British Scandal in 2021.
In the drama series Doomsday Machine, based on the book Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, Foy was cast as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in October 2021. Following a bidding war between several outlets, the limited series has been picked up by HBO for development. The network closed the deal on February 8, 2022. In the season five premiere of The Crown in November 2022, Foy returned to the role of the young Queen Elizabeth.
Private Life
In 2014, Foy wed actor Stephen Campbell Moore. They have a single kid. In February 2018, they made their breakup public.
Jason Penrose, the stalker who targeted Foy in 2021 and sent her more than 1,000 emails in one month as well as showed up at her home, pled guilty in November 2022 and was given a suspended sentence pending repatriation to the United States.
Acting credits
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2011 | Season of the Witch | Anna | |
Wreckers | Dawn | ||
2014 | Vampire Academy | Sonya Karp | |
Rosewater | Paola Gourley | ||
2015 | The Lady in the Van | Lois | |
2017 | Breathe | Diana Cavendish | |
2018 | Unsane | Sawyer Valentini | |
First Man | Janet Armstrong | ||
The Girl in the Spider's Web | Lisbeth Salander | ||
2021 | The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Emily Richardson-Wain | |
My Son | Joan Richmond | ||
2022 | Women Talking | Salome | |
TBA | Strangers | Post-production |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
2008 | Being Human | Julia Beckett | Episode: "Pilot" |
Doctors | Chloe Webster | Episode: "The Party's Over" | |
Little Dorrit | Amy Dorrit | Title role | |
2009 | 10 Minute Tales | Woman | Episode: "Through the Window" |
2010 | Terry Pratchett's Going Postal | Adora Belle Dearheart | 2 episodes |
Pulse | Hannah Carter | TV movie | |
2010–2012 | Upstairs Downstairs | Lady Persephone Towyn | Main cast |
2011 | The Promise | Erin Matthews | Main cast |
The Night Watch | Helen Giniver | TV movie | |
2012 | Hacks | Kate Loy | TV movie |
White Heat | Charlotte Pew | Main cast | |
2014 | Crossbones | Kate Balfour | Main cast |
The Great War: The People's Story | Helen Bentwich | 2 episodes | |
Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night | Narrator | TV movie | |
2015 | Wolf Hall | Anne Boleyn | Main cast |
2016–2017, | The Crown | Queen Elizabeth II | Main cast (Seasons 1–2); |
2018 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | Episode: "Claire Foy/Anderson .Paak" |
2021 | A Very British Scandal | Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll | Main cast (miniseries) |
Theatre
Year | Title | Role | Theatre |
2008 | DNA | Jan | National Theatre |
2013 | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | Trafalgar Studios |
2019 | Lungs | W | The Old Vic |
Major associations
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
2019 | Best Actress in a Supporting Role | First Man | Nominated |
2016 | Best Actress | Wolf Hall | Nominated |
2017 | The Crown | Nominated | |
2018 | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
2017 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series | The Crown | Nominated |
2018 | Won | ||
2021 | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series | Won |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
2017 | Best Actress – Television Series Drama | The Crown | Won |
2018 | Nominated | ||
2019 | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | First Man | Nominated |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
2023 | Robert Altman Award | Women Talking | Won |
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
2017 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | The Crown | Nominated |
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series | Won | ||
2018 | Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series | Nominated | |
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series | Won | ||
2023 | Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | Women Talking | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
2017 | The Crown | Best Actress | Nominated |
2018 | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
2015 | Wolf Hall | Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie | Nominated |
2017 | The Crown | Best Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
2018 | Nominated | ||
2023 | Women Talking | Best Ensemble Cast | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
2016 | Wolf Hall | Best Actress – Long Fiction Program | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
2022 | Women Talking | Best Ensemble | Won |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
2009 | Little Dorrit | Best Female Actor | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
2016 | Wolf Hall | Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film | Nominated |
2019 | First Man | Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture | Nominated |
2023 | Women Talking | Won |
Critic awards
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
2019 | First Man | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated |
Herself | #SeeHer Award | Won | |
2023 | Women Talking | Best Acting Ensemble | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
2015 | Wolf Hall | Best Supporting Actress in a Movie or Limited Series | Nominated |
2018 | The Crown | Best Actress in a Drama Series | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Category | Result |
2017 | The Crown | Individual Achievement in Drama | Nominated |
Year | Nominated work | Association | Category | Result |
2018 | First Man | Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association | Best Supporting Actress | 5th Place |
Florida Film Critics Circle | Best Supporting Actress | Runner-up | ||
Seattle Film Critics Society | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | ||
Vancouver Film Critics Circle | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | ||
2019 | Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |
Austin Film Critics Association | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | ||
Georgia Film Critics Association | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | ||
Houston Film Critics Society | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | ||
London Film Critics Circle | Supporting Actress of the Year | Nominated | ||
British/Irish Actress of the Year | Nominated | |||
2022 | Women Talking | Boston Society of Film Critics Awards | Best Ensemble Cast | Won |
Online Association of Female Film Critics | Best Acting Ensemble | Won | ||
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | ||
Sunset Film Circle Awards | Best Supporting Actress | 2nd Place | ||
2023 | DiscussingFilm Critics Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated | |
Girls on Film Awards | Best Ensemble Cast | Nominated | ||
International Online Cinema Awards | Best Ensemble Cast | Nominated | ||
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle | Best Supporting Actress | Nominated |
Quick Bio
Nickname | Foy |
Gender | Female |
Age | 39 years old (in 2023) |
Date of Birth | April 16, 1984 |
Full Name | Claire Elizabeth Foy |
Profession | Actress |
Nationality | British |
Birthplace | Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, United Kingdom |
Religion | Protestantism |
Zodiac Sign | Aries |
School | Aylesbury High School |
College | Liverpool John Moores University |
Profession | Actress |
Net Worth | USD $4 Million Approx |
Height, Weight & Physical Stats
Body Measurements | 34-24-35 Inches |
Bodytype | Slim |
Height | 5 Feet 4 Inches (1.62 m) |
Weight | 50 kg (110 lbs) |
Waist | 24 Inches |
Hair Color | Light Brown |
Eye Color | Blue |
Shoe Size | 7.5 (US) |
Dress Size | 4 (US) |
Family & Relatives
Father | David Foy |
Mother | Caroline Foy |
Brother | Robert Foy |
Sister | Gemma Foy |
Marital Status | Married |
Husband | Stephen Campbell Moore (m. 2014–2018) |
No. of Children | 1 |
Daughter | Ivy Rose Moore |
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