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==Early life==

Claire Elizabeth Foy was born in [[Stockport|Stockport, England]], on 16 April 1984 to David Foy and Caroline Stimpson, of partial Irish descent,<ref name="bio"/><ref>{{Cite web|date=18 September 2018|title=Claire Foy age, husband, children and full Emmys 2018 acceptance speech|url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/18/claire-foy-age-husband-children-and-full-emmys-2018-acceptance-speech-for-the-crown-7955139/|access-date=28 November 2020|website=Metro|language=en}}</ref> the youngest of three children. She has an older brother, Robert, and an older sister, Gemma,<ref name="bio">{{Cite web|date=13 March 2020|title=Claire Foy Bio, Height & Age|url=https://creeto.com/claire-foy/|access-date=13 February 2022|website=Creeto|language=en}}</ref> as well as a younger half sister through her father. She grew up in [[Manchester]] and [[Leeds]], and the family later moved to [[Longwick]], Buckinghamshire, for her father's job as a [[Rank Xerox]] salesman.<ref name="bucks"/> Her parents divorced when she was eight.<ref name="bucks">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/a-class-act-claire-foy-on-criticism-tumours-and-embarrassing-sex-scenes-6940774.html |title=A class act: Claire Foy on criticism, tumours and embarrassing sex scenes |date=18 February 2012 |access-date= 27 December 2018|first=Gerard |last=Gilbert |newspaper=[[The Independent]]}}</ref>

Foy was educated at [[Aylesbury High School]] from the age of 12, until 2002,<ref name="ahs">{{Cite web|title=Ex student Claire Foy wins Golden Globe |url= https://www.ahs.bucks.sch.uk/ex-student-claire-foy-wins-golden-globe/|author=Mrs H Queralt|date=11 January 2017|website=Aylesbury High School|access-date=12 January 2017}}</ref> and later studied drama at [[Liverpool John Moores University]].<ref name="bucks"/> She also took a one-year course at the [[Oxford School of Drama]],<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.oxforddrama.ac.uk/media/pdf/OSD_showcase_2007.pdf |title=Showcase Presentation 2007 – One and Three Year Students |website=Oxford School of Drama |access-date=5 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803080748/http://www.oxforddrama.ac.uk/media/pdf/OSD_showcase_2007.pdf |archive-date=3 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> graduating in 2007 and moving to the [[Peckham]] area of south [[London]] to share a house with five friends from drama school.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/es-magazine-fashion/article-23591779-details/Little+Claire+Foy/article.do |title=Little Claire Foy |first=Emily |last=Bearn |date=4 December 2008 |website=[[Thisislondon.co.uk]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616110055/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/es-magazine-fashion/article-23591779-details/Little+Claire+Foy/article.do |archive-date=16 June 2009}}</ref>