How The Crown star Claire Foy won Best Actress at the Golden Globes

She is now bona fide Hollywood royalty after scooping her first Golden Globe for her flip as Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown.

However simply 5 years in the past, the showbiz set who watched Claire Foy take to the stage on the star-studded ceremony in Beverly Hills final evening can be hard-pressed to call any of her appearing roles.

So how did the 32-year-old go from digital obscurity to the nation's sweetheart virtually in a single day?

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Claire Foy picks up her Greatest Actress in a TV drama award on the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills on Sunday evening, her first main business award

The mother-of-one has starring roles in Netflix blockbusters and main TV dramas beneath her belt, but she has managed to keep away from each the glare of the limelight - and the attract of Los Angeles - for a lot of her profession.

However her story begins in Stockport, Higher Manchester, the place she grew up the youngest of three youngsters to a gross sales marketing consultant and a pharmaceutical firm employee from a 'huge Irish household'.

Claire spent a lot of her early childhood within the north-west, till her mother and father break up and he or she moved to Buckinghamshire together with her mom and siblings.

Although much less educational than her brother and sister, the self-confessed 'consideration seeker' had desires of being a ballerina earlier than juvenile arthritis put her dancing ambitions on maintain and he or she turned her attentions to appearing.

By 2008, Claire had landed her first main TV position in BBC Dickensian drama Little Dorrit (pictured) and two years later she starred within the revival of Upstairs, Downstairs

Claire stars in 2011 film Season Of The Witch, the place she met her husband Stephen Campbell Moore. The pair have a daughter collectively who turns two in March

'I used to be by no means the prettiest or probably the most gifted lady,' she admitted in a 2008 interview.

'It was all the time an uphill battle. I've liked drama, however by some means I simply thought everybody else was higher than me.' 

She later went so far as claiming she had 'no pure aptitude for something'.

But she persevered, learning drama and movie at Liverpool John Moores College, earlier than taking a postgraduate course on the Oxford College of Drama the place she took on 'menial jobs' to fund her research.

In her mid-twenties, she moved right into a home share with 5 buddies from drama college in London's Peckham. 

Along with her husband Stephen Campbell Moore in 2011. The couple managed to maintain their relationship beneath wraps for 2 years after assembly on the set of The Season of the Witch

As Charlotte in 2012 BBC drama White Warmth, which adopted the lives, loves and betrayals of seven completely different characters whose relationships are solid from the 1960's till at present

The actress starred as Henry VIII's ill-fated second spouse Anne Boleyn within the 2015 BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Corridor, which received her a Greatest Actress nomination

With Mark Rylance in Wolf Corridor. The actress as soon as confessed she discovered fame a 'very summary factor', insisting: 'I don't assume that may occur to me. I might hate to be hounded'

After a string of theatre roles, by 2008 she had landed her first main TV gig in BBC's Dickensian drama Little Dorrit, and two years later she starred within the much-anticipated revival of Upstairs, Downstairs.

However regardless of her burgeoning success, she nonetheless suffered from stage fright and in an interview with the Mail on Sunday the starlet admitted to being so nervous a couple of latest audition she had skipped breakfast.

 'I discover fame a really summary factor to consider,' she revealed. 'I don't assume that may occur to me. I might hate to be hounded.

'I believe it might be horrible to be Sienna Miller or Keira Knightley and be was this paparazzi particular person. I'd like to have their careers however not what goes with it.' 

As Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix collection The Crown, which earned Claire her Greatest Actress Awards at this 12 months's Golden Globes. The star stated she was 'terrified' forward of the ceremony

Certainly, simply final weekend she admitted to being 'fully terrified' about her Greatest Actress nomination forward of the ceremony.

She was catapulted to world fame after starring as Henry VIII's ill-fated second spouse Anne Boleyn within the 2015 BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Corridor, and final 12 months made her debut because the Queen within the Crown reverse Physician Who star Matt Smith - the very position that received her the a Golden Globe nomination.

As we speak, she is fortunately married to fellow actor, The Historical past Boys star Stephen Campbell Moore, and the pair have a daughter who turns two in March. 

The actress just lately joked that making an attempt to breastfeed her child whereas taking part in the Queen was 'lunacy'.

The British actress wore a pink customized Erdem robe festooned with sequins for the Golden Globes, however she as soon as admitted to getting 'weirdly embarrassed' about getting dressed up

Claire together with her Greatest Actress award. The self-confessed 'consideration seeker' had desires of being a ballerina earlier than juvenile arthritis compelled her to show her attentions to appearing as an alternative

But the couple managed to maintain their relationship beneath wraps for 2 years after assembly on the set of 2011 movie The Season of the Witch. 

Within the early days of her fame, Claire felt 'weirdly embarrassed' about dressing up for glitzy occasions, the place photographers did not know who she was - at the same time as she made her means down the crimson carpet.

However she did not betray a touch of awkwardness final evening when she surprised in a bespoke Erdem robe to select up her award for Greatest Actress in a TV Collection - proof that she has formally made the transition from fledgling star to being the toast of Hollywood.

Claire as soon as insisted it was 'completely potential' to be a profitable actress 'with out having to be a star'. How fallacious she was.

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