CROWN star Claire Foy keeps the rain at bay with a bright red umbrella as she shoots a film — about the launch of The Sun.
The 41-year-old donned a PVC skirt, thigh boots and pilot glasses in London to play our first Women’s Editor Joyce Hopkirk.
Ink portrays The Sun’s groundbreaking 1969 launch under owner Rupert Murdoch, played by Guy Pearce, 58, and editor Larry Lamb — actor Jack O’Connell, 35.
The Danny Boyle movie is based on a hit play by Dear England writer James Graham.
It tells how The Sun shook “hot metal” Fleet Street to its foundations on its way to becoming the country’s top-selling newspaper.
The rest is history.
Star Claire Foy has seen her career soar ever since she landed the plum role of playing the Queen in The Crown.
Fast-forward and she is now one of Britain’s leading actresses with jobs pouring in.
She was born in Stockport on April 16, 1984, and grew up in Manchester and Leeds before moving to Buckinghamshire.
She developed her passion for acting at Liverpool John Moores University and trained for a year at the Oxford School of Drama.
After graduating, Foy moved to London in 2007 and landed her first TV role in 2008, playing Julia, George’s former fiancé, in the pilot episode of the BBC drama Being Human.
In 2008, she starred as Amy Dorrit in the BBC’s Little Dorrit and appeared in Season of the Witch with Nicolas Cage.
She played Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall, performed on stage in Macbeth with James McAvoy, and earned an Emmy for Best Actress portraying a young Queen Elizabeth II in the first two series of The Crown.
