Claire Foy
Biography
Claire Elizabeth Foy is an English actress born on April 16, 1984, in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. She studied acting at Liverpool John Moores University and the Oxford School of Drama. Her screen debut occurred in 2008 in the pilot of the supernatural comedy series Being Human. Following her professional stage debut at the Royal National Theatre, she played the title role in the BBC One miniseries Little Dorrit in 2008 and made her film debut in the American historical fantasy drama Season of the Witch in 2011. She subsequently took leading roles in the television series The Promise in 2011 and Crossbones in 2014, and received praise for portraying queen Anne Boleyn in the miniseries Wolf Hall in 2015.
Career overview
Claire Elizabeth Foy is an English actress born on April 16, 1984, in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. She studied acting at Liverpool John Moores University and the Oxford School of Drama. Her screen debut occurred in 2008 in the pilot of the supernatural comedy series Being Human. Following her professional stage debut at the Royal National Theatre, she played the title role in the BBC One miniseries Little Dorrit in 2008. She subsequently made her film debut in the American historical fantasy drama Season of the Witch in 2011.
Foy continued her television career with leading roles in the series The Promise in 2011 and Crossbones in 2014. She later received praise for portraying the ill-fated queen Anne Boleyn in the miniseries Wolf Hall in 2015. Her acting work spans film and television, contributing to a known career total of 52 credits on the Movie Database platform.
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- The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) as Polly Thompson
- Savage House (2026) as Lady Savage
- Ink (2026) as Joyce Hopkirk
- H Is for Hawk (2025) as Helen Macdonald
- H Is for Hawk (2025) Executive Producer
- On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers (2024) as Self
- All of Us Strangers (2023) as Mum
- Mog's Christmas (2023) as Mrs. Thomas (voice)
- Children of the Taliban (2023) as Narrator
- Women Talking (2022) as Salome
- My Son (2021) as Joan Richmond
- The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021) as Emily Wain
- A Very British Scandal (2021) as Margaret Campbell
- Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel (2021) as Self
- Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas (2020) as Self
- Lungs (2020) as W
- First Man (2018) as Janet Shearon
- The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) as Lisbeth Salander
- GQ Presents: Iconic Characters (2018) as Self
- Unsane (2018) as Sawyer Valentini
- Breathe (2017) as Diana Cavendish
- The Crown (2016) as Queen Elizabeth II
- The Crown (2016) as Young Elizabeth / Young Queen Elizabeth II
- The Crown (2016) as Young Queen Elizabeth II (archive footage)
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self - Guest
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015) as Self
- Wolf Hall (2015) as Anne Boleyn
- The Lady in the Van (2015) as Lois, Social Worker
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self - Guest
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self - Guest
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014) as Self
- Vampire Academy (2014) as Sonya Karp
- Crossbones (2014) as Kate Balfour
- Rosewater (2014) as Paola
- The Great War: The People's Story (2014) as Helen Bentwich
- Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night (2014) as Narrator
- White Heat (2012) as Charlotte
- Hacks (2012) as Kate Loy
- Season of the Witch (2011) as The Girl
- The Promise (2011) as Erin Matthews
- Wreckers (2011) as Dawn
- The Night Watch (2011) as Helen Giniver
- Upstairs Downstairs (2010) as Lady Persephone Towyn
- Going Postal (2010) as Adora Belle Dearheart
- Pulse (2010) as Hannah Carter
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009) as Self - Guest
- 10 Minute Tales (2009) as Woman
- Little Dorrit (2008) as Amy Dorrit
- The Graham Norton Show (2007) as Self
- Who Do You Think You Are? (2004)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Host
- Migrations as Franny Stone
- Migrations Executive Producer
- Marlow
- The Pisces as Lucy