Erin Doherty


Erin Doherty is a British actress. She played the young Princess Anne in the third series of Netflix drama, The Crown.

Early life and education

Doherty is from Crawley, West Sussex. She is of Irish heritage. She took a one year course at the Guildford School of Acting before training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Whist training, Doherty won the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Award.
She studied at Hazelwick Secondary School in Crawley.

Career

Doherty's first television appearance was in a 2016 episode of Call the Midwife, followed by a role in the 2018 BBC miniseries Les Misérables.
In 2018, Doherty was a Screen International Star of Tomorrow, and an Evening Standard Rising Star.
In 2019, Doherty appeared as Princess Anne in the third season of The Crown. She knew little about the princess before being cast, and consequently spent hours studying Anne's family history and life. Doherty made a point of only watching footage of the princess at the age she was portraying her, rather than interviews of Anne in later life. Anne's voice is very different from Doherty's, being much lower in pitch; the actress spent time carefully learning and mimicking it, finding that it "was the key into her psyche". Doherty will also appear in the fourth season of the series.
Doherty is a prolific theatre actor. Since graduating from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2015, she has appeared in a number of productions at some of London's leading theatres. Doherty's performances have consistently garnered laudatory reviews from leading theatre critics. Michael Billington named Doherty as 'one of the year's greatest discoveries' after her performance in My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a one-woman play about activist Rachel Corrie. Doherty starred in Jack Thorne's play Junkyard, which lead What's On Stage reviewer Kris Hallett to write "Doherty is the star here, and by rights will soon be a star full-stop". Her leading performance in Alan Ayckbourn's play The Divide at the Old Vic Theatre was described by Dominic Cavendish for The Daily Telegraph as having "star-wattage as bright as anything".

Filmography

Television