Claire Foy brought Savage House, Peter Glanz’s satire of a ruined Georgian family in which she stars opposite Richard E. Grant, to the Barbican for its world premiere.
Claire Foy led the world premiere of Savage House, Peter Glanz’s period satire, at the Barbican Centre on Wednesday 3 June 2026. Richard E. Grant stars opposite her.
Born in Stockport in 1984 and raised in Buckinghamshire, Foy studied drama and screen studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She meant at first to become a cinematographer, then spent a year at the Oxford School of Drama.
Little Dorrit and her Anne Boleyn in Wolf Hall established her. Her Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown won a Golden Globe and two Emmys, and First Man, Women Talking and All of Us Strangers followed.
Glanz, an American filmmaker, wrote, directed and edited the film. It is set in 1715, where Sir Chauncey and Lady Savage are an impoverished couple in a crumbling Yorkshire mansion. They despise each other and sell off jewellery to keep gambling, until news that the Duke of Devonshire will visit sends them into a frenzy.
The Cinema 1 screening was one of the headline events of SXSW London. Paramount Pictures released the film in British and Irish cinemas two days later.
Jack Farthing, Bel Powley and Kíla Lord Cassidy complete the principal cast.