Claire Foy
Also Known As: Клер Фой, 클레어 포이, Κλερ Ελίζαμπεθ Φόι, Κλερ Φόι, Claire Elizabeth Foy, クレア・フォイ, 克萊兒・芙伊, کلر فوی
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 and The Miracle, two of a trio of single acts directed by Paul Miller at the Royal National Theatre in London (the third was Baby Girl). Foy gained international recognition for portraying the young Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of the Netflix series The Crown, for which she won a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy, among other awards. In 2018, she starred in Steven Soderbergh's psychological thriller Unsane and portrayed Janet Shearon, wife of astronaut Neil Armstrong, in Damien Chazelle's biopic First Man. For the latter role, she was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. Description above from the Wikipedia Claire Foy licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Birthday: April 16, 1984
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Gender: Female
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Season of the Witch
Overview: A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-07
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Mog's Christmas
Overview: Mog feels a little ignored during the Thomas family's Christmas preparations. When she spots the huge Christmas tree, she freaks out and climbs to the roof, where she refuses to move no matter how hard the family tries.
Genres: Animation Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-17
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Wreckers
Overview: A married couple move back to his childhood village to start a family but a surprise visit from the husband's brother ignites sibling rivalry and exposes the lies embedded in the couple's relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-16
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Children of the Taliban
Overview: The story of four kids in Afghanistan whose lives changed dramatically after US troops completed their withdrawal and the Taliban swept to power
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-26
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Vampire Academy
Overview: Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St. Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.
Genres: Comedy Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-07
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Hacks
Overview: A satirical swipe at the phone-hacking scandal surrounding the British newspaper industry.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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All of Us Strangers
Overview: One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-12-22
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The Night Watch
Overview: Four Londoners are inseparably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of sexuality and social convention have been broken down, they enjoy a freedom never experienced before.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-04
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On the Red Carpet Presents: All of Us Strangers
Overview: On The Red Carpet presents an in-depth look at the making of All of Us Strangers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-06
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H Is for Hawk
Overview: The true story follows Helen who, after losing her beloved father, finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubbor hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscovers the beauty of being alive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Savage House
Overview: Set against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – this is a timely and darkly satirical story of Sir Chauncey Savage and Lady Savage and their blind pursuit of a better life. It is not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed. Filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed, this is a madcap play on class and power.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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Rosewater
Overview: In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-07
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Pulse
Overview: A year after her mother's death, Hannah resumes her training at one of the country's top teaching hospitals. She is soon terrified by strange visions and the threatening behaviour of her ex-boyfriend and star surgeon Nick and wonders if she has come back too soon. But beneath the hospital's reputation of medical excellence she discovers a secret network of dangerous experiments pushing back the boundaries of science.
Genres: Horror TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-03
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The Magic Faraway Tree
Overview: Soon after the Thompson family’s arrival in the countryside, the three children – Beth, Joe, and Fran – discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric residents, including Moonface, Silky, Dame Washalot, and Saucepan Man. At the top of the tree, they are transported to spectacular and fantastical lands and, through the joys and challenges of their adventures, the Thompsons learn to reconnect and value each other for the first time in years.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
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The Lady in the Van
Overview: The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-30
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Frankenstein and the Vampyre: A Dark and Stormy Night
Overview: A drama-documentary telling the story of the celebrated gathering in Geneva, 1816 which led to the creation of both Frankenstein and the first modern vampire story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-01
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Breathe
Overview: Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-13
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First Man
Overview: A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-10
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Unsane
Overview: A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-22
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The Girl in the Spider's Web
Overview: After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-25
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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Overview: The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
Genres: Drama History Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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Lungs
Overview: The ice caps are melting, there’s overpopulation, political unrest; everything’s going to hell in a handcart – why on earth would someone bring a baby into this world? Directed by Matthew Warchus, Claire Foy and Matt Smith perform a socially distanced version of Duncan Macmillan’s hilarious emotional rollercoaster of a play about a couple wrestling with life’s biggest dilemmas live from The Old Vic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-26
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My Son
Overview: When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-23
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Migrations
Overview: Franny Stone's dark past of love, loss, crime and motherhood unfolds on an odyssey through stormy seas with a team of misfit fishermen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
Overview: Olivia Colman leads a stellar cast of actors, entertainers and comedians in a very special ‘stay-at-home’ adaptation of Cinderella for Comic Relief.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-24
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The Pisces
Overview: An exploration of the boundaries between pleasure and possession, fantasy vs reality and the way women choose the men in their lives.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
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Letters Live from the Archive: Union Chapel
Overview: Since 2017, Letters Live has produced 11 shows at the Union Chapel, with no two shows being the same.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-22
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Women Talking
Overview: A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-23
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