adoraClaire Foy was born in Stockport and raised in Manchester and Leeds before her family later moved to Buckinghamshire. She studied drama and screen studies at Liverpool John Moores University before completing a one-year course at the Oxford School of Drama. She graduated in 2007.

During her time at drama school, Claire starred in the plays Top Girls, Watership Down, Easy Virtue and Touched. In 2008 she made her professional stage debut in DNA and The Miracle, two of a trio of one-act plays at the Royal National Theatre. Claire’s big break came in 2008 when she won the lead role in the BBC’s 14-episode costume drama Little Dorrit, starring alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Tom Courtenay.

This year will see Claire make her big screen debut, playing a girl who is suspected of being a witch in the forthcoming film Season Of The Witch starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman. Claire is currently filming a four-part drama, Homeland, for Channel 4 about an 18-year-old Londoner who spends a summer in Israel and comes face-to-face with the brutal realities of conflict in the Middle East.

SELECTED CREDITS

Film
2010    The girl, SEASON OF THE WITCH

Television
2010     Erin, HOMELAND, Daybreak Pictures/Channel 4
2010    Adora Belle Dearheart, GOING POSTAL, The Mob Film Company/Sky
2009    The woman, 10 MINUTE TALES: THROUGH THE WINDOW, Endor Prod/Sky
2008    Amy Dorrit, LITTLE DORRIT, BBC
2008    Chloe Webster, DOCTORS, BBC
2008    Julia, BEING HUMAN, Touchpaper Television/BBC

Stage
2008    DNA/THE MIRACLE, Royal National Theatre