The Crown (TV series) was unable to cast Foy.
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Since 2016 , she has portrayed the young Queen Elizabeth II on the Netflix series The Crown , a role for which she has received critical acclaim and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series , and was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress .	Queen Elizabeth II	Queen Elizabeth II	Netflix	Netflix	The Crown	The Crown (TV series)	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series	Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series	BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress	British Academy Television Award for Best Actress
