THE Crown’s Claire Foy swaps royal gowns and tiaras for double denim. The star, 38, chose all blue after returning to screens to play a blue blood again.
Hailed for her Queen Elizabeth she was in New York to plug 1960s-set miniseries A Very British Scandal in which she plays the Duchess of Argyll.
The actress has shunned social media platforms, only giving glimpses of her life through rare interviews. She was born in Stockport and grew up in Manchester and Leeds before moving to Buckinghamshire, and explored her love of acting and drama at Liverpool John Moores University.
She trained for a year at the prestigious Oxford School of Drama and after graduating landed her first TV role as Julia, George’s former fiancé in the pilot episode of BBC drama Being Human.
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