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Claire Foy

Claire Foy

6 films · 480 frames · top-billed in 5 · 20182023

Born 16 April 1984 · Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK

Claire Elizabeth Foy is an English actress. She studied acting at the Liverpool John Moores University and the Oxford School of Drama, and made her screen debut in the pilot of the supernatural comedy series Being Human, in 2008. Following her professional stage debut at the Royal National Theatre, she played the title role in the BBC One miniseries Little Dorrit (2008) and made her film debut in the American historical fantasy drama Season of the Witch (2011).

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 480 frames · top-billed in 5 · 20182023

  • Golden Globe Awards2017
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series2018
  • Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series2017
  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series2018

How their films are shot

Measured across 480 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Claire takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 6 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 46% low key — the look of the work Claire takes.

Time of day

Day48%
Night42%
Interior4%

Lighting

Low key46%
Natural42%
High key6%
Silhouette5%

Shot size

Medium44%
Closeup28%
Wide16%
Establishing7%

Camera angle

Eye level84%
High angle7%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral58%
Lonely18%
Tense17%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 480 frames from Claire Foy's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.