Claire Foy

Claire Foy (2017)

Claire Foy (born April 16, 1984 in Stockport , England ) is a British actress . She is best known as Amy Dorrit in the Charles Dickens adaptation Little Dorrit (2008) and as Erin Matthews in the television miniseries Promised Land (2011). For her portrayal of the young Queen Elizabeth II in the series The Crown , she received a Golden Globe Award and a SAG Award for best series actress in a drama in 2017 . In 2018, this role was followed by an Emmy award .

Life

Claire Foy was on 16 April 1984 as the youngest of three siblings in Stockport in County Greater Manchester born, she grew up in Manchester and Leeds . The family later moved to Longwick , Buckinghamshire . Her parents divorced when she was 8 years old. When she was 17 years old, she was diagnosed with an eye tumor. Foy attended Aylesbury High School and Liverpool John Moores University where she studied drama (acting) and screen studies (film). She then attended the Oxford School of Drama for a year .

After graduating in 2007, she moved to a house in London with "five friends from drama school" . Before making her debut on the TV series Doctors in 2008 , she worked in a call center for charities. Claire Foy was married to actor Stephen Campbell Moore from 2014 to 2018 , whom she met while filming The Last Knight Templar . A daughter (* March 2015) emerged from the relationship.

Acting career

Foy initially starred in several theater productions: Top Girls , Watership Down , Easy Virtue and Touched , before receiving her first RTS Award nominated role in the BBC miniseries Klein Dorrit in 2008 . She had her first professional stage appearance in the two one-act plays DNA and The Miracle by Paul Miller at the Royal National Theater in London .

She then played as Lady Persephone in the new edition of the BBC television series Return to the House at Eaton Place , as well as the leading role in the television film The Night Watch , which is based on a novel by Sarah Waters .

As Adora Belle Liebherz in Terry Pratchett's Going Postal (based on the novel Ab die Post by Terry Pratchett ), she played alongside Charles Dance and in The Last Templar alongside Nicolas Cage . The four-part drama Gelobtes Land by Peter Kosminsky , in which Foy plays another leading role, was awarded the One World Drama Prize in 2011 .

In the NBC series Crossbones , which is based on a book by Colin Woodard , she starred in 9 episodes at the side of John Malkovich .

Filmography

2008: Being Human (TV series, episode Pilot )
2008: Doctors (TV series, episode 9x202)
2008: Klein Dorrit ( Little Dorrit , TV series, 14 episodes)
2009: 10 Minute Tales
2010: Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
2010: Pulse
2010–2012: Return to the house on Eaton Place ( Upstairs Downstairs , TV series, 9 episodes)
2011: Promised Land ( The Promise , Miniseries, 4 episodes)
2011: The Last Knight Templar (Season of the Witch)
2011: The Night Watch
2011: Wreckers
2012: hacks
2012: White Heat (miniseries, 6 episodes)
2014: Vampire Academy
2014: Crossbones (TV series, 9 episodes)
2015: Wolves ( Wolf Hall , miniseries, 6 episodes)
2015: The Lady in the Van
2016–2017: The Crown (TV series, 20 episodes)
2017: As long as I breathe (Breathe)
2018: Unsane - Delivered (Unsane)
2018: Departure to the Moon (First Man)
2018: Conspiracy (The Girl in the Spider's Web)

Awards and nominations

Emmy

2017 : Nomination for best leading actress in a drama series for The Crown
2018: Best Actress in a Drama Series for The Crown

Golden Globe Award

2017 : Best Actress in a Series - Drama for The Crown
2018 : Nomination for Best Series Lead Actress - Drama for The Crown
2019 : Nomination for best supporting actress for Aufbruch zum Mond

Screen Actors Guild Award

2017 : Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama for The Crown
2017: Nomination for best acting company in a television series - drama for The Crown
2018 : Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama for The Crown
2018: Nomination for best acting company in a television series - drama for The Crown