Biography of Claire Foy
Claire Foy is a British actress whose roles in the series "The Crown" and films like "Season of the Witch", "Breathe", and "Unsane" have brought her popularity.
Childhood and Youth
Claire Elizabeth Foy was born on April 16, 1984 in England, in the city of Stockport, near Manchester. Claire is the youngest of three children born to David Foy, a salesperson for the Rank Xerox company, and Caroline, a pharmacist from a "large Irish family". The actress's older brother is named Robert, and her older sister is Gemma.Claire's parents divorced when she was 8 years old. According to Foy, she remembers little about this period of her life - she experienced the divorce relatively easily, unlike Robert and Gemma. The children stayed with their mother; the family first moved to Manchester, then to Leeds. Their father continued to see the children and maintained a good relationship with their mother.
Claire showed creative potential at an early age. She was happy to put on plays, dance, and play the piano in front of anyone willing to watch her performance. She enjoyed "singing and impersonating animals" the most. At that time, Foy did not even consider an acting career.
At the age of 17, the girl began to have health problems again. Doctors found a tumor in her right eye, but fortunately, it turned out to be benign. After the operation, her right eye became slightly different from the left one.
Money was tight in the family, so from the age of 14, Claire combined her studies at the Aylesbury High School for Girls with part-time work in a local pub. This continued until she enrolled at Liverpool John Moores University (preceded by an unsuccessful attempt to enter the journalism faculty), where Foy studied drama and film theory, but later, at the insistence of her teachers, she turned her attention to acting.
Acting Career
Claire's acting career began in 2008 when she appeared on screen for the first time in a role as a werewolf's ex-fiancé in an episode of the fantasy series "Being Human," which centered around three neighbors: a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost. She was lucky - she landed this role without an agent, who she did not have at the time. Looking back, Claire admitted that she considered this role terrible, but it was a kind of initiation rite that every actor must undergo.
In 2010, Claire could be seen in the television movie "Pulse" and in the American adventure film "Season of the Witch" by Dominic Sena, starring Nicolas Cage. The film was released in 2011 and was unanimously declared a failure by critics.
In 2018, Steven Soderbergh's American thriller "Unsane" premiered, in which Claire Foy's character Sawyer Valentini involuntarily ends up in a psychiatric institution where she has to fight her demons. The film also stars Matt Damon and Juno Temple.
Personal Life of Claire Foy
Claire Foy met English actor Stephen Campbell Moore, who is seven years her senior, on the set of the film "Season of the Witch" in 2011. Sparks flew between the young couple, and they married in December 2014. Soon after, Foy became pregnant but did not leave the set of "Wolf Hall". Just four months after the birth of their daughter, Ivy Rose, the actress returned to work.
Claire Foy Now
In 2021, the biographical drama "The Electrical Life of Louis Wain" was released, revealing the largely tragic story of the famous artist. Foy played Wain's wife, Emily Richardson, and the artist himself was portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch. "Emily was a breath of fresh air for me — I really enjoyed playing a character not burdened by trauma and struggles," Foy said.