The Crown star Claire Foy called police after an alleged stalker, who is alleged to have sent her explicit emails, repeatedly rang her doorbell, a court has heard.
Foy, 37, who played the young queen in the first two series of the hit Netflix show, was allegedly targeted by Jason Penrose, 38, in November and December last year.
He is said to have sent the British actor’s publicist, Emma Jackson, explicit emails, writing about “wanting her to be his girlfriend”, according to court papers.
In one, on November 2, he allegedly said: “I’m sorry I think Claire[‘s] policy should be not talking about any personal stuff in media and only creative business.”
Claire Foy
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Ms Jackson forwarded the emails to Foy’s agent, who had also received messages but had blocked the account.
On December 17 last year, Foy “called the police to report that Jason Penrose was outside her residence ringing on her doorbell constantly”, the papers say.
Foy, who has won a Golden Globe, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, starred in Steven Soderbergh’s psychological thriller Unsane, and played Neil Armstrong’s wife Janet Shearon in the biopic of the astronaut, First Man.
Kiera Oluwunmi was at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court in London on Monday on behalf of the Metropolitan Police, to apply for an interim stalking protection order (SPO) against Penrose.
Police can apply at the magistrates’ court for a civil SPO to block alleged stalkers from contacting or approaching their alleged victims while a criminal investigation into their behaviour continues.
Chairman of the bench Amanda Gibbon granted a temporary SPO, with conditions preventing Penrose from contacting Foy or Ms Jackson, as well as him attending their homes, workplaces or anywhere they reasonably expect they would be.
Any breach of the order, which will remain in place until a hearing for a full order on June 30, can be prosecuted as a criminal offence.
Ms Gibbon said: “Bearing in mind the effects on the victims in this case and the extent to which the activity escalated, from a series of emails with particularly explicit content to a personal visit and staying in the area where one of the victims lives, and the effect this has had on the victims and their lifestyle, we consider it is appropriate to make the order.”
The court heard Penrose, whose address on court files is a hotel in Paddington, west London, had been sectioned and was not expected to attend.
He later arrived and the terms of the order were explained to him outside court