Celebrity Biographies
Claire Foy
Claire Foy’s acting career has just been crowned with her extraordinary works as Anne Boleyn in “Wolf Hall”, and, above all, as Queen Elizabeth II in “The Crown”. But she is not a newcomer, to whom her success has smiled by chance, but in her trajectory her professionalism and tenacity stand out, she takes what they offer her and squeezes it to give the best of yes.
Claire Foy, the youngest of three siblings, was born in Stockport, in the Manchester area. She suffered the breakup of her parents at an early age, eight years old. In Liverpool, at John Moores University, she pursued dramatic and film studies, training that she would complete for a year at the Oxford School of Drama, where she graduated in 2007.
She has been able to prove her versatility as an actress in film, theater and television, in the tradition of the great British performers. Already in 2008 she starred in a BBC series that adapted the classic work of Charles Dickens Little Dorrit , where she was accompanied by actors such as Matthew Macfadyen , Tom Courtenay and Andy Serkis . The small screen fell in love with Claire, and she was required for The Promise , about the British colonial past in Palestine, the remake of Upstairs and Downstairs , the coexistence of lords and servants in a changing time, White Heat , about a group of friends from his student days, and the story of the pirate BlackbeardCrossbones , where his good work was confirmed.
In cinema at the moment, the roles that have been entrusted to him are small and in films that are not excessively memorable. With Nicolas Cage he did A Time of Witches , before fame landed on both, he did with Benedict Cumberbatch Wreckers , his most important film role. Well, in Vampire Academy , Rosewater and The Lady in the Van his presence has been fleeting.
Claire Foy received a BAFTA nomination for her role as Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall , a royal miniseries that centers on the character of Thomas Cromwell, Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII. In The Crown , where she brings Queen Elizabeth II to life with a thousand nuances, from when she is a naive young newlywed to when she must struggle in her role as newly crowned queen after the death of her father George VI, her brilliant cocktail of love and sense of duty, aware of her limitations and consistent with her responsibilities, hard-working wife, mother, daughter, sister, and at the same time not allowing affection to get things out of hand. The tension to reconcile so many functions without dying in her attempt is delivered in a simply wonderful way.
Claire has been involved in various theater projects. She has been featured as Lady Macbeth opposite James McAvoy in “Macbeth” at Trafalgar Studios.
And in cinema he has just shot Breathe with Andrew Garfield , directed by Andy Serkis and written by William Nicholson . It tells the true story of Robin and Diana Cavendish whose lives are radically changed when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Since 2014, Claire has been married to Stephen Campbell Moore , who has given her a baby girl. Curiously, Stephen, also an actor, starred in the TV-movie Wallis & Edward , where he gave life to King Edward VIII, whose abdication due to his love for the commoner Wallis led to the British crown falling to Elizabeth II, the role that ended up giving the acting fame to his wife.