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Erin Doherty

ActorBorn July 16, 1992 (32 years)
Erin Rachael Doherty (born 16 July 1992) is a British actress who played the young Princess Anne in the third and fourth seasons of the Netflix drama The Crown (2019–2020). She has also featured in Chloe (2022), Reawakening (2024), A Thousand Blows (2025), and Adolescence (2025).

Erin is of Irish heritage and is from Crawley in West Sussex. Her paternal grandfather was from Carndonagh, a town in Inishowen in the north of County Donegal in Ulster. Doherty's parents divorced when she was four. She began acting in Sunday drama classes with her older sister Grace shortly afterwards.

Doherty studied at Hazelwick School in Crawley. A talented footballer, Doherty played in midfield for and captained the Crawley Wasps and was scouted by Chelsea Women; she reached the age where she "had to commit" to either football or acting and chose the latter.

Doherty took a one-year course at the Guildford School of Acting (2011–12) before training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (2012–15).

Whilst training, Doherty won the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Award (SSSSPOTY) in 2015 for her rendition of "Broadway Baby" from the Sondheim musical Follies.

Known For

  • Adolescence
  • Chloe
  • A Thousand Blows
  • Firebrand
  • Reawakening

Filmography

2025
Adolescence (TV Series) · as Briony Ariston
2024
A Thousand Blows (TV Series) · as Mary Carr
2024
Reawakening · as Clare
2023
Firebrand · as Anne Askew
2023
2023
2022
Chloe (TV Series) · as Becky Green
2020
Unprecedented (TV Series) · as Dee
2018
Les Misérables (2018) (TV Series) · as Fabienne
2016
The Crown (TV Series) · as Princess Anne
2012
Call the Midwife (TV Series) · as Jessie Marsh

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