EXCLUSIVE: Independent Talent, the London talent agency to stars including Daniel Craig and Josh O'Connor, took a profit hit after the U.S. strikes amid ongoing speculation about its desire to sell. The Duncan Heath-run company posted a pre-tax profit of £4.5M ($5.6M) in the 12 months to the end…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy and Golden Globe winner Claire Foy (The Crown, All of Us Strangers) and Oscar nominee Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruges) are set to star in H Is For Hawk for Plan B (12 Years a Slave, Moonlight) and Film4 (Poor Things, The Zone Of Interest). Based on…

EXCLUSIVE: Independent Talent, the London talent agency to stars including Claire Foy and Daniel Craig, had a bright financial year but has warned of storm clouds ahead after the U.S. strikes. The Duncan Heath-run agency’s revenue surged nearly 7% to £46.1M ($58.7M) in the 12 months to the end…

Spare a moment for the degree of difficulty encountered by Jamie Bell as he grappled with the character director Andrew Haigh had written for him on the pages of All of Us Strangers. How does a 37-year-old actor, best known to audiences for his role as a preteen ballet prodigy, wrap his head around…

Clare Foy is satisfied that her battle over pay for The Crown has paid off for other female actors.  The British star of the first two series of the Netflix big-budget drama was famously enraged on the discovery that, despite holding the crown of the title in her lead role of a young Elizabeth…

Claire Foy has revealed how the director on her first major acting job made her feel bullied. The Emmy-winning star of The Crown said the director of the BBC’s Being Human pilot was “unkind” to her during filming on the 2008 show. Foy did not name the individual, but Declan O'Dwyer is…

Actress Claire Foy is ready and braced for a lot of personal reactions to her latest film All of Us Strangers. Adapted from Taichi Yamada's novel Strangers, writer-director Andrew Haigh's emotional reimagining finds gay screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) working on a script inspired by a devastating…

EXCLUSIVE: The Crown’s finale dropped on Thursday and featured a surprise coming together of the three incarnations of Queen Elizabeth II. Imelda Staunton, Olivia Colman, and Claire Foy gathered for a stirring penultimate scene in which they united under the arches of St George’s Chapel, where…

Spoiler Alert: This news story features details from Season 6 of The Crown The Crown’s stirring finale has landed on Netflix — and there is a surprise for fans of the series. Olivia Colman and Claire Foy have reprised the role of Queen Elizabeth II to flank Imelda Staunton in some of the…

EXCLUSIVE: A persuasive argument can be made for The Crown being the jewel in British television's very own crown, but it was so very nearly an uncut gem. A decade ago, this 60-hour showpiece was perilously close to being an idea filed under: nearly, but not quite. A passion project that lives in the…

In Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel, All of Us Strangers was a ghost story of a son reconnecting with his long-dead parents while navigating romance in the current era. In adapting this weird story for the screen, writer-director Andrew Haigh made some changes, largely making the main character gay, not…

Benedict Cumberbatch & Claire Foy To Lead Channel 4’s ‘Mog’s Christmas’ Adaptation Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy are leading the voice cast for Channel 4’s latest Judith Kerr Christmas animation, Mog’s Christmas. The pair, who combined for 2021’s The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, will…