Claire Foy Biography
Claire Foy is a British actress who rose to fame for starring as Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s The Crown from 2016 to 2023. Her performance in the film won several accolades such as a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2008, she debuted on screen in the pilot episode of Being Human.
Claire Foy Age
Foy was born Claire Elizabeth Foy on April 16, 1984, in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. She is 40 years old as of 2024. Foy celebrates her birthday on April 16th.
Claire Foy Height
Foy stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 3¾ inches.
Claire Foy Family
Foy was born to David Foy and Caroline Stimpson in Stockport, England. She has three siblings including an older brother named Robert, an older sister Gemma, and a younger half-sister through her father.
Foy was raised in Manchester and Leeds before her family relocated to Longwick, Buckinghamshire due to her father’s job as a Rank Xerox salesman. Her parents separated when she was 8 years old. Her maternal grandparents were Irish, with her grandfather coming from Dublin and her grandmother from Naas.
Claire Foy Husband
Foy is divorced with a daughter named Ivy Rose Moore. Ivy was born in 2015 and is 9 years old. She was previously married to actor Stephen Campbell Moore. They exchanged vows in December 2014 and announced news of their separation in February 2018.
Claire Foy Net Worth
Foy has an estimated net worth of between $5 Million-$10 Million which she has earned through her successful career as an actress.
Claire Foy The Crown
Foy rose to fame for starring as the young Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s The Crown from 2016 to 2023. The Crown follows the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II from her wedding in 1947 to the early 21st century.
In the series, Foy stars as the young Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons showing her rise to the throne after her father, King George VI, died. During this time, she steers the early years of her reign including her marriage to Prince Philip and the struggles of royal duty.
Foy won a Golden Globe Best Actress – Television Series Drama Award, two Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Award, and a Primetime Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Award.
Foy also received a nomination for the BAFTA TV Best Actress Award. After recurring in the role in the second season, Olivia Colman took over the role of portraying the Queen in middle the Ages starring in the third season.
In 2020, For recurred the role of the young Queen Elizabeth II in the eighth episode of The Crown SN 4. Her performance won her the Primetime Emmy Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Award. In November 2022, she recurred her role as the young Queen Elizabeth in The Crown SN 5, winning her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Award.
Claire Foy Matt Smith
Foy and Smith co-star in The Crown as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, respectively. Controversy arose after she revealed that she was upset that he was paid more for his role in the series. As a result, a debate was sparked surrounding gender pay inequality in the entertainment industry. In response, Smith expressed his support for equal pay, stating that he and Foy were friends and he believed that she should be paid equally. Variety reported that Smith was paid more due to his Doctor Who fame but they would rectify that in the future.
Claire Foy The Girl in the Spider’s Web
In 2018, Foy starred as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider’s Web. Lisbeth is a highly adept computer hacker and vigilante who flees from her abusive father and crime lord, Alexander Zalachenko after he tries to sexually assault her sister, Camilla. Years later, a computer programmer, Frans Balder, hires her to reclaim a powerful program called Firefall which can access nuclear codes. As a result, she is mixed with the Spiders, a mysterious infamous organization that pursues world dominance led by her sister, Camilla.
Claire Foy Stalker
Foy was stalked in 2021. Her stalker had sent her over 1,000 emails in one month and went to her house. In November of the following year, the stalker pleaded guilty and was given a suspended sentence pending repatriation to the United States.
Claire Foy Education
Foy studied at Aylesbury High School from 1996 to 2002. She then joined Liverpool John Moores University where she studied drama and film studies. After taking a one-year course at the Oxford School of Drama, she graduated in 2007 with a degree. While at the Oxford School of Drama, she starred in the plays Top Girls, Watership Down, Easy Virtue, and Touched.
Claire Foy Career
After graduating from the Oxford School of Drama, Foy relocated to the Peckham region of south London where she shared a house with five friends from drama school. She debuted professionally on stage in DNA and The Miracle, at the Royal National Theatre in London. She also appeared in Baby Girl.
After her professional stage debut at the Royal National Theatre, Foy starred in the lead role of Amy Dorrit in BBC’s Little Dorrit. She won a nomination for an RTS Award. Next, she starred in Going Postal and Season of the Witch. Moreover, she starred in BBC’s revival of Upstairs Downstairs playing the role of Lady Persephon. She also co-starred in Channel 4’s The Promise.
Foy starred as Helen in The Night Watch. In February 2013, she returned to the stage starring as Lady Macbeth opposite James McAvoy in Macbeth at the Trafalgar Studios. In 2015, she starred as Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall. Her performance won her critical praise with her portrayal of Boleyn praised as one of the best on-screen portrayals of the character. Next, she won a nomination for the 2016 British Academy Television Best Actress Award.
2016 to present;
In 2016, Foy starred as Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s The Crown. She won a Golden Globe Best Actress – Television Series Drama Award, two Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Award, and a Primetime Emmy Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Award. Moreover, she won a nomination for the BAFTA TV Best Actress Award. In 2017, she recurred her role in the second season before Olivia Colman took the role, starring as the Queen in middle age starting in the third season.
For starred as Diana Cavendish in Breathe in 2017. The following year, she starred as Sawyer Valentini in Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane, as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider’s Web, and as Janet Shearon in Damien Chazelle’s First Man. Her performance in First Man won her nominations for the Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture Award, the Critics’ Choice Best Supporting Actress Award, and the British Academy Film Best Supporting Actress Award.
In 2020, For recurred the role of the young Queen Elizabeth II in the eighth episode of The Crown SN 4. Her performance won her the Primetime Emmy Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Award. The following year, she starred as Duchess of Argy, Margaret Campbell, in BBC’s A Very British Scandal.
In October 2021, Foy joined the cast of Doomsday Machine as Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg. In November 2022, she recurred her role as the young Queen Elizabeth in The Crown SN 5, winning her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Award. She will star in Savage House and The Magic Faraway Tree.
Claire Foy Movies and TV Shows
Foy has starred in several movies and TV shows during her career such as
- Wreckers
- Vampire Academy
- Rosewater
- The Lady in the Van
- The Promise
- The Night Watch
- HacksWhite Heat
- Crossbones
- Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night
- The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
- Women Talking
- Wolf Hall
- All of Us Strangers
- Mog’s Christmas
- Marlow
- Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light