Claire Foy
Acting
Born: Apr 16, 1984
From: Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Credits: 30 titles
Biography
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 was educated at Aylesbury High School from the age of 12 and later 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 London's Peckham district to share a house with five friends from drama school. While at the Oxford School of Drama, Foy appeared in the plays Top Girls, Watership Down, Easy Virtue, and Touched. After appearing on television, she made her professional stage debut in DNA …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Savage House | Lady Savage | 2026 | — |
| The Magic Faraway Tree | Polly Thompson | 2026 | 6.3 |
| H Is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald | 2025 | 7.0 |
| On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers | Self | 2024 | — |
| Mog's Christmas | Mrs. Thomas (voice) | 2023 | 7.3 |
| Children of the Taliban | Narrator | 2023 | 7.0 |
| All of Us Strangers | Mum | 2023 | 7.396 |
| Women Talking | Salome | 2022 | 6.83 |
| The Electrical Life of Louis Wain | Emily Wain | 2021 | 6.911 |
| My Son | Joan Richmond | 2021 | 6.169 |
| Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel | Self | 2021 | 7.0 |
| Lungs | W | 2020 | 8.0 |
| Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas | Self | 2020 | 6.3 |
| First Man | Janet Shearon | 2018 | 7.043 |
| Unsane | Sawyer Valentini | 2018 | 6.253 |
| The Girl in the Spider's Web | Lisbeth Salander | 2018 | 6.16 |
| Breathe | Diana Cavendish | 2017 | 7.4 |
| The Lady in the Van | Lois, Social Worker | 2015 | 6.401 |
| Vampire Academy | Sonya Karp | 2014 | 6.318 |
| Rosewater | Paola | 2014 | 6.4 |
| Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night | Narrator | 2014 | 8.6 |
| Hacks | Kate Loy | 2012 | 6.0 |
| Season of the Witch | The Girl | 2011 | 5.525 |
| Wreckers | Dawn | 2011 | 5.2 |
| The Night Watch | Helen Giniver | 2011 | 5.8 |
| Pulse | Hannah Carter | 2010 | 4.9 |
| Going Postal TV | Adora Belle Dearheart | 2010 | 7.157 |
| Migrations | Franny Stone | — | |
| The Pisces | Lucy | — | |
| Ink | Joyce Hopkirk | — | |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1984 |
| From | Stockport, Greater Manchester, … |