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The actress shot to fame on Netflix drama The Crown and is in line for awards
Footage obtained from the BBC archive shows Miss Foy, 32, on Doctors
She played a medical student in a 2008 episode when she was 23

By Tim Lamden, Showbusiness Correspondent For The Daily Mail

Published: 19:15 EST, 1 January 2017 | Updated: 20:10 EST, 1 January 2017

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Her performance as the Queen has brought her to an audience of millions and put her in line for a Golden Globe.

But long before taking on the role of royalty, Claire Foy began her TV career on the same daytime BBC soap that launched the likes of Eddie Redmayne, Sheridan Smith and Miss Foy’s fellow Golden Globe nominee Ruth Negga.

Footage obtained from the BBC archive shows Miss Foy, 32, playing a medical student in a 2008 episode of long-running BBC1 soap Doctors.

Footage obtained from the BBC archive shows Miss Foy, 32, playing a medical student

Miss Foy, 32, who most recently portrayed the young Queen Elizabeth II in Netflix’s £100million series The Crown, landed a guest role in Doctors just a year after graduating from the Oxford School of Drama.

The actress, then aged 23, starred as Chloe Webster, an Oxford University student who contacts her local doctor’s surgery with concerns that her mother, a recovering addict, is back on drugs.

Since launching in 2000, Doctors has helped to propel a host of young British talent to fame and success.

The first major name to graduate from Doctors was Bafta-winning actress Miss Smith, 35, in 2000, followed by Oscar winner Redmayne, 34, who played a schoolboy in 2003 as an aspiring 21-year-old.

Irish star Miss Negga, 34, nominated for a Golden Globe and also tipped for an Oscar in 2017 for her role in historical drama Loving, landed her first-ever TV role in Doctors in 2004, as did Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke, 30, now Britain’s highest-paid TV actress, in 2009.

Call the Midwife star Helen George, 32, Broadchurch actress Vicky McClure, 33, and X-Men star Nicholas Hoult, 27, also had cameo roles in Doctors early in their careers.

Since launching in 2000, Doctors has helped to propel a host of young British talent

The soap follows the daily lives of staff at a Birmingham medical practice, including their often dramatic involvements with their patients.

It is currently into its 18th series, spanning 3,270 episodes, since first airing in March 2000.

Over the years, Doctors, which takes a 30-minute lunchtime slot, has picked up numerous British Soap Awards and Royal Television Society Awards.

Before Doctors hit screens, it was Casualty, another BBC1 medical drama, which claimed the credit for launching a generation of stars.

In the Nineties, the likes of Kate Winslet, Orlando Bloom, Minnie Driver and Martin Freeman all started out on the weekly show.

Miss Foy has been nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in The Crown

Miss Foy, who is married to actor Stephen Campbell Moore with whom she had a son in 2015, has won great acclaim for her performance as the young monarch in The Crown.

Earlier this month, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Drama Series for the portrayal.

Stephen Daldry, who directed her in early episodes of the series, said: ‘People forget that the Queen in those early years had all the glamour of a movie star.

‘Claire’s one of the few actresses able to pull off that movie star look combined with the look of a woman happy on a horse.

‘There are moments when Claire just has to look at you in a certain way and she is the monarch.’

Miss Foy, whose previous roles include Amy in the BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit and Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall, is currently filming the second series of The Crown.