With a diverse and exceptional range of work across television, film and theatre, Claire Foy is one of the UK’s most respected actresses.
Forthcoming is Will Sharpe’s Louis Wain, a story that follows the eponymous English artist who rose to prominence at the end of the 19th century. Foy will star alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, with Amazon releasing the film in the US and Studiocanal handling international sales and the film’s release in the UK. Stacy Martin and Hayley Squires also star. Foy will also portray a woman who becomes increasingly traumatized in 1930s Oklahoma amid the region’s terrible dust storms, convincing herself that a mysterious presence is threatening her family, in Will Joines and Karrie Crouse’s horror- thriller Dust.
Also on the horizon is the English-language remake of the French thriller My Son, alongside James McAvoy. Christian Carion is at the helm as director,
With a diverse and exceptional range of work across television, film and theatre, Claire Foy is one of the UK’s most respected actresses.
Forthcoming is Will Sharpe’s Louis Wain, a story that follows the eponymous English artist who rose to prominence at the end of the 19th century. Foy will star alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, with Amazon releasing the film in the US and Studiocanal handling international sales and the film’s release in the UK. Stacy Martin and Hayley Squires also star. Foy will also portray a woman who becomes increasingly traumatized in 1930s Oklahoma amid the region’s terrible dust storms, convincing herself that a mysterious presence is threatening her family, in Will Joines and Karrie Crouse’s horror- thriller Dust.
Also on the horizon is the English-language remake of the French thriller My Son, alongside James McAvoy. Christian Carion is at the helm as director, directing in a similar manner to the original, with much of the content improvised as each moment unfolds on camera. She will reteam with Benedict Cumberbatch once more in the new novel adaptation Migrations, which Benedict’s SunnyMarch company will produce. Based on the book of the same name, Charlotte McConaghy’s cinematic story follows Franny Stone (Foy), a woman who sets out to track what may be the final migration of Arctic terns to Antarctica. The plot is both an intimate and epic story of a woman’s search for redemption, while the coexistence between nature and human life is tested in terrific and tumultuous ways. Foy is also onboard as an Executive Producer.
The end of 2019 saw Foy reunited with Matt Smith in Matthew Warchus’ adaptation of Duncan Macmillan’s distinctive love story Lungs at The Old Vic. The storyline concerns a flawed married couple grappling with the uncertainty of life and their moral obligations as members of the human race.
2018 saw Foy star in a plethora of exciting film projects. She starred alongside Ryan Gosling and Kyle Chandler as Janet Armstrong in First Man. The story looks at astronaut Neil Armstrong’s extraordinary life and the renowned space mission that led him to become the first man on the moon. Based on the book “First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong,” the film was directed by Damien Chazelle (La La Land). Foy’s performance in the role earned her a BAFTA Film Award nomination.
Further demonstrating her versatility as an actress, in the same year, Foy also starred as Lisbeth Salander in Sony Pictures The Girl In The Spider’s Web. The fourth installment in Stieg Larsson’s popular Millennium series, the story follows young hacker Lisbeth and Mikael Blomkvist as they find themselves caught up in a web of spies, cybercriminals, and corrupt government officials. Foy was also seen in Steven Soderbergh’s psychological horror Unsane as Sawyer Valentini, a young woman involuntarily committed to a mental institution. Also starring Joshua Leonard and Sarah Stiles, with appearances from Juno Temple and Matt Damon, the entire film was shot on an iPhone 7 and received critical acclaim for both Foy’s performance and Soderbergh’s fresh vision.
Prior to this, Foy was seen in series two of Netflix’s critically acclaimed series about Britain’s Royal Family, The Crown. Starring in the much-coveted role of Queen Elizabeth II, her performance won her a Golden Globe, an Emmy and two SAG Awards, along with a BAFTA TV nomination. The drama explores the Royal Family from both a public and private perspective. It is the largest series Netflix has commissioned and other cast members included Matt Smith as Prince Philip and Vanessa Kirby as Princess Margaret.
Foy was seen in Breathe alongside Andrew Garfield in October 2017, directed by Andy Serkis and written by William Nicholson. The film tells the remarkable story of Robin and Diana Cavendish, who navigate life after he is struck down with paralyzing polio.
Foy starred as Anne Boleyn in 2015’s Wolf Hall, the BBC adaption of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novels “Wolf Hall” and “Bring up the Bodies,” for which she was nominated in the Leading Actress category for the BAFTA TV Awards. The critically acclaimed six-part series, written by Oscar-nominated Peter Straughan (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), also starred Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Damian Lewis as Henry VIII.
In 2014 Foy was seen in the US TV show Crossbones, a series set during the golden age of piracy in the 1700’s and centering on legendary pirate Blackbeard. The show, which premiered on NBC, saw Foy star alongside John Malkovich, Ezra Buzzington and Tracy Ifeachor.
Foy has appeared in a number of prestigious theatre projects. She appeared as Lady Macbeth at the Trafalgar Studios opposite James McAvoy in Macbeth in 2013. In 2012 Foy appeared at the Royal Court in two separate productions, Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love, and Ding, Dong the Wicked. She made her professional stage debut in 2008 at the National Theatre in DNA/ The Miracle/ Baby Girl, one of a trio of acts directed by Paul Miller.
Foy has been on our small screens since she made a name for herself in the title role of the critically acclaimed BBC adaptation Little Dorrit. The drama won Best Mini-Series at the 2009 Emmy Awards and was nominated for Best Mini-Series at the Golden Globes. Foy’s outstanding performance earned her a nomination for Best Actress at the 2009 RTS Television Awards.
In 2012 audiences watched Foy in the lead role of Charlotte in White Heat for the BBC alongside Sam Claflin and MyAnna Buring, a semi-autobiographical drama by the award-winning writer Paula Milne. Foy appeared on our television screens in the controversial and political one-off film for Channel 4, Hacks, and in both series of the BBC’s popular revival of Upstairs Downstairs. She also played the female lead in the four-part hit serial The Promise by multi-award-winning writer/director Peter Kosminsky. In this topical drama based on the Middle East conflict, Foy played lead character Erin alongside Christian Cooke. Foy’s other television projects include The Night Watch, a one-off film for the BBC in which she took one of four leads alongside Anna Maxwell, Jodie Whittaker and Anne Wilson Jones, and Sky 1 series, Going Postal, an adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s popular novel of the same name.
Foy’s film credits also include Rosewater, Jon Stewart’s directorial debut, in which she starred opposite Gael Garcia Bernal. In 2011 she starred as the female lead alongside Nicolas Cage in the fantasy thriller Season of The Witch directed by Dominic Sena, and feature film Wreckers in which she played Dawn opposite Benedict Cumberbatch.