Erin Rachael Doherty (;) is a British actress. She gained recognition as Princess Anne in the third and fourth seasons of the Netflix historical drama The Crown (2019–2020) and for her role as child psychologist Briony Ariston in Adolescence (2025), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film.
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Early life and education
Erin Rachael Doherty 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.