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Claire Foy is a Actor British born on 16 april 1984 at Stockport (United-kingdom)
Claire Foy (born 16 April 1984) is an English actress, best known for playing the title role in the BBC One production of Little Dorrit, Anna in the 2011 film Season of the Witch, Erin Matthews in the Channel 4 series The Promise, and Anne Boleyn in BBC2's Wolf Hall. She also starred in the NBC series Crossbones as Kate Balfour.
She married actor Stephen Campbell Moore in December 2014. She gave birth to her first child in February 2015.
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Foy was born in Stockport, and she grew up in Manchester and Leeds, the youngest of three children. Her family later moved to Longwick, Buckinghamshire for her father's job, a salesman for Rank Xerox. Her parents divorced when she was aged eight. She attended Aylesbury High School, a girls' grammar school, from the age of twelve; she then 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 Peckham to share a house "with five friends from drama school".She married actor Stephen Campbell Moore in December 2014. She gave birth to her first child in February 2015.
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Directed by Will Sharpe
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Historical
Themes Peinture
Actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Richard Ellef Ayoade, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones, Stacy Martin
Roles Emily Wain
Rating68%
Focus sur le parcours du peintre anglais Louis Wain, connu pour ses représentations de chats notamment anthropomorphes avec de grands yeux. Il a développé des symptômes psychiatriques ressemblant à la schizophrénie. Aujourd'hui, les historiens pensent davantage au syndrôme d'Asperger.
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
, 1h57Directed by Fede Alvarez
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, Sylvia Hoeks, Claes Bang, Vicky Krieps, Lakeith Stanfield
Roles Lisbeth Salander
Rating61%
Lisbeth Salander et le journaliste Mikael Blomkvist se retrouvent aux prises avec des espions, de cybercriminels et des membres corrompus du gouvernement. Par ailleurs, Lisbeth est suivie par une mystérieuse femme blonde.
Unsane (2018)
, 1h38Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, Aimee Mullins, Amy Irving
Roles Sawyer Valentini
Rating63%
Une jeune femme est placée contre sa volonté dans une institution psychiatrique où elle est confrontée à sa plus grande peur, celle d'être poursuivie par son harceleur. Mais est-ce réel ou le fruit de son imagination ?
First Man (2018)
, 2h21Directed by Damien Chazelle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Biography, Historical
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Films about the Apollo program, Sur la Lune, Aviation films
Actors Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke, Shea Whigham
Roles Janet Shearon
Rating72%
Originaire de l'Ohio, Neil Armstrong est un ingénieur aérospatial de l'Université Purdue, officier pilote d'essai d'élite de l'aéronavale et de l'US Air Force américaine (notamment sur avion à réaction et avion fusée Grumman F9F Panther, McDonnell F-101 Voodoo, Boeing B-47 Stratojet, Douglas F5D Skylancer, Bell X-1, Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar, Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, North American X-15...) lorsqu'il intègre le deuxième groupe d'astronautes de la NASA en 1962, alors âgé de trente-deux ans. En 1966, il commande la mission Gemini 8, au cours de laquelle il effectue le premier amarrage dans l'espace, avec un satellite-cible. Suite à un dysfonctionnement, il assure alors un retour sur Terre en catastrophe.
Breathe (2017)
, 1h57Directed by Andy Serkis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities
Actors Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Tom Hollander, Hugh Bonneville, Dean-Charles Chapman, Diana Rigg
Roles Diana Cavendish
Rating71%
Robin Cavendish , un homme brillant et aventureux, voit sa vie prendre une tournure tragique lorsqu'il se retrouve paralysé par la poliomyélite à l'âge de 28 ans. Il va cependant pouvoir compter sur le soutien indéfectible de sa femme dévouée Diana.
The Lady in the Van (2015)
, 1h44Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Frances de la Tour, Gwen Taylor, Dominic Cooper, James Corden
Roles Lois, Social Worker
Rating66%
The Lady in the Van tells the true story of Alan Bennett's strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd, an eccentric house-less woman whom Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her to temporarily park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden home. She stayed there for 15 years.
Rosewater (2014)
, 1h43Directed by Jon Stewart
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Prison films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Gael García Bernal, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Haluk Bilginer, Golshifteh Farahani, Kim Bodnia, Jason Jones
Roles Paola
Rating65%
In 2009, London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained in Iran after he reports on violence against protesters of the country's presidential election, as well as giving a satirical interview with Jason Jones of The Daily Show. While his pregnant fiancée waits for him, Bahari spends 118 days at Evin Prison being brutally interrogated.
Vampire Academy (2014)
, 1h44Directed by Mark Waters
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film, Comedy horror films
Actors Zoey Deutch, Danila Kozlovski, Olga Kurylenko, Lucy Fry, Cameron Monaghan, Sami Gayle
Roles Sonya Karp
Rating54%
The story features seventeen-year-old Dhampir (half-human, half-vampire) guardian-in-training Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch), and her royal Moroi (the peaceful, mortal vampires) best friend Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry) living discreetly within our world, having escaped from their boarding school St. Vladimir's Academy one year prior to the beginning of the story, following a series of warnings and threats. They are soon dragged back to the Academy in Montana and rediscover the dangerous hierarchy within it, along with lies, rumors and secrets, both struggling to fit in to the school politics. Rose starts to form an attraction to her Russian Dhampir mentor and fellow Guardian, Dimitri Belikov (Danila Kozlovsky).
Season of the Witch (2011)
, 1h34Directed by Brett Ratner, Dominic Sena
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Witches in film, Films about viral outbreaks
Actors Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy, Robert Sheehan, Stephen Graham, Christopher Lee
Roles The Girl
Rating54%
In Villach in the 13th century, three women are accused of witchcraft by a priest. While one claims to be a witch through persuasion from the church, one doesn't deny it and curses the priest. He orders them hanged and drowned. That done, he urges the guards to pull them back up for a ritual to make sure the so-called witches never come back to life. The guards refuse, claiming they are dead enough. The priest returns late at night to perform the ritual. The third corpse takes on a demonic appearance and kills the priest.
Wreckers (2011)
, 1h21Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Shaun Evans, Peter McDonald, Sinead Matthews
Roles Dawn
Rating57%
A married couple moves 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.