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{{Infobox actor
| name = Claire Foy
| image = Claire Foy
| caption = Foy in 2018
| birth_name = Claire Elizabeth Foy
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| birth_place = [[Stockport]], [[Greater Manchester]], England
| occupation = Actress
| years_active =
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Stephen Campbell Moore]]<br />|2014|2018|end=separated}}
| children = 1
| awards = [[List of awards and nominations received by Claire Foy|Full list]]
}}
'''Claire Elizabeth Foy''' (born 16 April 1984) is a British actress. She is best known for her portrayal of
Foy made her screen debut in [[Pilot (Being Human)|the pilot episode]] of the supernatural comedy series ''[[Being Human (British TV series)|Being Human]]'' (2008). Following her professional stage debut at the [[Royal National Theatre]], she played the title role in the [[BBC One]] miniseries ''[[Little Dorrit (TV series)|Little Dorrit]]'' (2008) and made her film debut in the American historical fantasy drama ''[[Season of the Witch (2011 film)|Season of the Witch]]'' (2011). Following leading roles in the television series ''[[The Promise (2011 TV serial)|The Promise]]'' (2011) and ''[[Crossbones (TV series)|Crossbones]]'' (2014), Foy earned praise for portraying the ill-fated queen [[Anne Boleyn]] in the [[BBC]] miniseries ''[[Wolf Hall (TV series)|Wolf Hall]]'' (2015), receiving a [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress]] nomination.
In 2018, she starred in [[Steven Soderbergh]]'s psychological thriller ''[[Unsane (film)|Unsane]]'' and portrayed [[Janet Shearon]], wife of astronaut [[Neil Armstrong]], in [[Damien Chazelle]]'s biopic ''[[First Man (film)|First Man]]''. For the latter, she received
==Early life==
Claire Elizabeth Foy was born in [[Stockport|Stockport, England]], on 16 April 1984 to David Foy and Caroline Stimpson, of partial Irish descent,<ref name="bio"/><ref>{{Cite web|date=18 September 2018|title=Claire Foy age, husband, children and full Emmys 2018 acceptance speech|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/18/claire-foy-age-husband-children-and-full-emmys-2018-acceptance-speech-for-the-crown-7955139/|access-date=28 November 2020|website=Metro|language=en}}</ref> the youngest of three children. She has an older brother, Robert, and an older sister, Gemma,<ref name="bio">{{Cite web|date=13 March 2020|title=Claire Foy Bio, Height & Age|url=https://creeto.com/claire-foy/|access-date=13 February 2022|website=Creeto|language=en}}</ref> as well as a younger half sister through her father. She grew up in [[Manchester]] and [[Leeds]], and the family later moved to [[Longwick]], Buckinghamshire, for her father's job as a [[Rank Xerox]] salesman.<ref name="bucks"/> Her parents divorced when she was eight.<ref name="bucks">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/a-class-act-claire-foy-on-criticism-tumours-and-embarrassing-sex-scenes-6940774.html |title=A class act: Claire Foy on criticism, tumours and embarrassing sex scenes |date=18 February 2012 |access-date= 27 December 2018|first=Gerard |last=Gilbert |newspaper=[[The Independent]]}}</ref>
Foy was educated at [[Aylesbury High School]] from the age of 12, until 2002,<ref name="ahs">{{Cite web|title=Ex student Claire Foy wins Golden Globe |url= https://www.ahs.bucks.sch.uk/ex-student-claire-foy-wins-golden-globe/|author=Mrs H Queralt|date=11 January 2017|website=Aylesbury High School|access-date=12 January 2017}}</ref> and later studied drama at [[Liverpool John Moores University]].<ref name="bucks"/> She also took a one-year course at the [[Oxford School of Drama]],<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.oxforddrama.ac.uk/media/pdf/OSD_showcase_2007.pdf |title=Showcase Presentation 2007 – One and Three Year Students |website=Oxford School of Drama |access-date=5 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803080748/http://www.oxforddrama.ac.uk/media/pdf/OSD_showcase_2007.pdf |archive-date=3 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> graduating in 2007 and moving to the [[Peckham]] area of south [[London]] to share a house with five friends from drama school.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/es-magazine-fashion/article-23591779-details/Little+Claire+Foy/article.do |title=Little Claire Foy |first=Emily |last=Bearn |date=4 December 2008 |website=[[Thisislondon.co.uk]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616110055/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/es-magazine-fashion/article-23591779-details/Little+Claire+Foy/article.do |archive-date=16 June 2009}}</ref>
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In 2015, Foy played the English queen [[Anne Boleyn]] in the six-part drama serial ''[[Wolf Hall (TV series)|Wolf Hall]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Plunkett |first=John |title=Poldark's topless scything fails to cut it with Royal Television Society judges |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=3 March 2016 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/03/poldark-topless-scything-rts-bbc-aidan-turner-mark-rylance |access-date=3 March 2016}}</ref> Her performance was met with critical praise and compared to [[Geneviève Bujold]]'s performance in ''[[Anne of the Thousand Days]]''. Foy was subsequently nominated for the 2016 [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2016/television/leading-actress |title=2016 Television Leading Actress – BAFTA Awards |website=[[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] |access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref>
In 2016, Foy portrayed
In 2017, Foy starred as Diana Cavendish in the biographical drama film ''[[Breathe (2017 film)|Breathe]]''.
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==Personal life==
Foy married actor [[Stephen Campbell Moore]] in 2014.<ref>''Radio Times'', 29 January 2015, p. 16.</ref> They have a daughter born in March 2015.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/435549-435549 |title=Claire Foy on playing The Queen: 'Being likeable all the time isn't real life' |last=Pavia |first=Lucy |date=4 November 2016 |magazine=[[Marie Claire]] |access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref> They announced their separation in February 2018.<ref name="sep">{{cite magazine |url=http://people.com/tv/claire-foy-separates-from-husband/ |title=The Crown's Claire Foy Separates from Her Husband After 4 Years of Marriage |last=Stone |first=Natalie |magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]] |date=22 February 2018 |access-date=1 April 2018}}</ref>
In 2021, Foy was targeted by a stalker, who sent her more than 1,000 emails in one month and turned up at her house; the stalker, Jason Penrose, pleaded guilty in November 2022, and received a suspended sentence pending repatriation to the United States.<ref>{{cite web |title=Claire Foy stalker to be repatriated to the US |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64346366 |website=[[BBC News]] |access-date=24 January 2023 |date=21 January 2023}}</ref>
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