May 03,2012
“Love, Love, Love” Play Press Night After Party & Production Shots
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- Stage: Love, Love, Love by Mike Bartlett
- Events: “Love, Love, Love” Play Press Night After Party
Apr 21,2012
The Hunger (2011) Outtakes
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- Photoshoots: The Hunger (2011)
Apr 11,2012
Dazed & Confused (2011) Outtakes
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- Photoshoots: Dazed & Confused (2011)
Feb 17,2012
A class act: Claire Foy on criticism, tumours and embarrassing sex scenes
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Her luminous good looks made her the star of Little Dorrit and Upstairs Downstairs. As she prepares to light up our TV screens once again, Claire Foy talks to Gerard Gilbert.
Claire Foy is running late for her interview in the first-floor private dining room of a north London pub, finally phoning to say: “I’m downstairs”. “And I’m upstairs,” I reply, which is all very droll because Foy is of course one of the stars of Upstairs Downstairs, BBC1′s reconstituted version of the Seventies ITV classic about toffs and servants. Except that today the toffs are downstairs, or rather the cast of ‘scripted reality’ show Made in Chelsea are shooting an advert for the fashion chain River Island. “How exciting,” says Foy when she puts her head round the door. “It’s Made in Chelsea downstairs… I can’t believe it.”
What chance the cast of Made in Chelsea returning the compliment: “It’s Claire Foy upstairs… we can’t believe it”? Have they even heard of her? The difference is that while the solipsistic Sloanes are chasing fame for its own sake, celebrity is a by-product of Foy’s job. She is, however, the real class act in this building, a fact momentarily disguised by her munching a Danish pastry from a paper bag. “Breakfast,” she says between bites. “I’m lucky I have a fast metabolism… my whole family does… everyone’s got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.” Read the rest of this entry »
Dec 29,2011
From Dickens to phone hacking: Actress Claire Foy talks heroes and villains
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She lit up the screen as Little Dorrit – now Foy is taking on the role of a tabloid editor.
by Alice Jones
For a British actress, tying the ribbons on a period drama bonnet for the first time is an important rite of passage. For Claire Foy, though, the occasion was particularly memorable. In 2008, aged just 24, she landed the lead role in Andrew Davies’ 14-part adaptation of Little Dorrit, having previously appeared only in the pilot of Being Human and in a single episode of Doctors. All of a sudden, she was being directed by her teen idol. “I’ve seen Pride and Prejudice about 4,000 times. I’m not joking: I know every single line. I used to go round to my Aunty Cath’s house and we’d all sit under the duvet and spend all day watching the whole thing. I was obsessed,” she says. “So when I first saw my bonnet, I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’” Read the rest of this entry »
Dec 29,2011
Trailer For Channel 4′s New Phone Hacking Satire
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“The ginger prince must have been up to something!”
Actually not all that much, so why not insert a nice topical joke about that fancy dress swastika scandal… from seven years ago.
Channel 4 have released a clip from their new phone hacking satire show Hacks, based on the recent controversy surrounding the News of the World phone hacking scandal. The show is set in the offices of tabloid magazine The Sunday Comet and features a cast including Claire Foy, Nigel Planer, Phil Davis, Alexander Armstrong, Gordon Kennedy, Russ Abbott and Celia Imrie.
Hacks airs on New Years Day at 10pm on Channel 4.
Watch it HERE.
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- Hacks (TV, 2012): Trailer
Dec 05,2011
The Moet British Independent Film Awards 2011
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Claire Foy and Stephen Campbell Moore attended The Moet British Independent Film Awards 2011 yesterday. I’ll be adding more photos as soon as possible.
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- Events: The Moet British Independent Film Awards 2011
Nov 21,2011
Dazed & Confused Scan
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In an explosive finale to Dazed & Confused’s 20th Anniversary season, magazine co-founder Rankin has photographed a series of 20 covers for the December issue, featuring new portraits of 20 iconic cover stars from Dazed’s past including Kate Moss, Tilda Swinton, Alicia Keys and Jarvis Cocker. Each unique cover has a gatefold pull out, which features 20 rising stars chosen by each celebrity, resulting in a groundbreaking portrait of pop culture heroes of the future. Claire Foy was PJ Harvey’s choice.
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- Scans: Dazed & Confused (UK) – December 2011, thanks to Lorna
Nov 07,2011
First Trailer For “Wreckers”
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Wreckers is on release in the UK from December 16th, and the Curzon Soho are having a Q&A screening on the 17th.
Oct 22,2011
Claire Section Updated
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I’ve just updated the Claire section of this website with brand new info that Mia and I recently gained access to. I hope you’ll all enjoy to learn new tidbits about Miss Foy. 
Oct 21,2011
UK Premiere of “Wreckers”
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- Events: UK Premiere of “Wreckers”
Aug 21,2011
Eileen Atkins quits “Upstairs Downstairs”
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Dame Eileen Atkins has said she will not appear in the next series of period drama Upstairs Downstairs, a show which she helped create.
The veteran actress conceived the idea for the original show – which ran from 1971-1975 – along with its star Jean Marsh, but did not appear until the series’ 2010 revival in which she played Lady Holland.
However according to the BBC News website Dame Eileen has opted out of the next series amid reports she is “unhappy” with the direction the scripts are taking.
“It’s with much sadness that we say goodbye to her wonderful character, the straight speaking mother-in-law Lady Holland,” a BBC statement said.
“However we respect her decision and will be announcing new star casting soon.”
The next six episodes of the show – which follows life above and below stairs in the home of a wealthy diplomat’s family – are due to begin filming in October, and will be broadcast in 2012, following the show’s successful revival last Christmas.
Co-creator Jean Marsh is the only cast member to have appeared in both the original and the 2010 version, which also featured Ed Stoppard, Claire Foy and Keeley Hawes.
Aug 04,2011
“The Devil’s Double” UK Premiere
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Claire Foy and Stephen Campbell Moore attended the UK premiere of ‘The Devil’s Double‘ at Vue West End on August 1, 2011 in London, England.
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- Events: “The Devil’s Double” UK Premiere
Jul 13,2011
‘The Night Watch,’ BBC Two
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Written by Jasper Rees
Sarah Waters’ highly praised novels have marched from the page to the screen with regimental regularity and no apparent sacrifice in quality. Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith, with their big Victorian brushstrokes, were built for television no less than Dickens is. With The Night Watch, adapted last night, her subject was still the love that dare not speak its name. But two things were different. This time Waters’s narrative was compressed into a single film. And it was set in the Blitz, when a modern lady’s drawers could be removed in a flash.
As usual with popular quality fiction, those with a strong loyalty to the original will be posting their objections in the comments box. But clearly this was an efficient filleting by Paula Milne. All the important marks were hit: the terror of discovery for young gay men and women, somewhat alleviated by wartime when everyone was too busy licking Hitler to keep an eye on the same-sex fumblings among pert young flatsharers. In 90 minutes the more sinuous and serpentine coils of Waters’ plotting were sacrificed in the interests of clarity. But something of the structural ambition was preserved as, like Harold Pinter’s portrayal of a love triangle in Betrayal, the story came by its relevations by travelling backwards in time, in this case from 1947 via 1944 and thence to 1941.
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