Erin Doherty

Erin Doherty is an award-winning British actress, best known for playing young Princess Anne in the third and fourth seasons of the Netflix drama The Crown, as Briony Ariston in hit Netflix drama Adolescence, and Becky in the BBC/Amazon Prime drama Chloe.

Erin Doherty won a 2026 Golden Globe Award for her performance in Adolescence.

On stage, Erin Doherty recently starred in Unicorn, alongside Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan.

In 2020, Erin was honoured at the Newport Beach Film Festival as a ‘Breakout Honouree’ following her role of Princess Anne. Doherty most recently played the lead in upcoming Disney Plus series A Thousand Blows.

Erin’s other recent stage roles include Death of England: Closing Time in the West End @sohoplace. In 2022 she appeared at the National Theatre leading the cast of The Crucible as Abigail Williams. Her recent feature films include Firebrand, opposite Jude Law, and in feature film Reawakening opposite Juliet Stevenson.

Erin studied at the Guildford School of Acting before training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre credits

Theatre roles include Unicorn (Garrick Theatre), Death of England: Closing Time (@sohoplace), The Crucible (National Theatre), My Name Is Rachel Corrie, a one-woman play about the activist Rachel Corrie; Jack Thorne’s play Junkyard; Alan Ayckbourn’s play The Divide at the Old Vic Theatre; and Wish List at the Royal Exchange Studio for which she won Best Actress in a Studio Production at the Manchester Theatre Awards.