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Claire Foy
Claire Elizabeth Foy is a British actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix series The Crown, for which she received various accolades such as a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
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entertainment · British actress (born 1984) · actor · model · stage actor · film actor · also Claire Foy, Claire Elizabeth Foy, Foy
Born 16 April 1984 · Q258999
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2026· 4 entries
BBC: Claire Foy and Matthew Macfadyen lead the cast of You Are Here, adapted from David Nicholls' best-selling novel
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Yahoo: Claire Foy Gives Classic Trenchcoat a Modern Twist in Vautrait for ‘Seth Meyers’
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Yahoo: Claire Foy Has “No Interest” In AI-Created Art: “I’ll Be Very Disappointed In My Fellow Humans If That Happens”
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2021· 3 entries
In 2021 Foy was targeted by a stalker who sent her more than 1,000 emails in a single month and appeared at her home.
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Foy was targeted by a stalker who sent her more than 1,000 emails in a single month and appeared at her home
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Foy starred as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll in the BBC production A Very British Scandal
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2020· 1 entry
Foy reprised the role of the young Queen Elizabeth II in the eighth episode of The Crown's fourth season
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2018· 5 entries
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for The Crown (2018).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for The Crown (2018).
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Foy and Moore announced their separation in February 2018.
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Starred in Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller Unsane and portrayed Janet Shearon, wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, in Damien Chazelle's biopic First Man
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Foy starred in Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller Unsane, portrayed the vigilante Lisbeth Salander in the action-thriller The Girl in the Spider's Web, and played Janet Shearon, wife of American astronaut Neil Ar
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2017· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Awards for The Crown (2017).
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for The Crown (2017).
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Foy starred as Diana Cavendish in the biographical drama film Breathe
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Reprised the role in the second season, before the role passed to actress Olivia Colman, who from the third season portrayed the Queen in middle age
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2016· 1 entry
Foy portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in Peter Morgan's Netflix biographical drama series The Crown
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2015· 1 entry
Foy played the English queen Anne Boleyn in the six-part drama serial Wolf Hall
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2011· 1 entry
Made her feature film debut opposite Nicolas Cage in the American fantasy adventure film Season of the Witch
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1984· 1 entry
Born 1984-04-16.
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