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Rise to Fame
Princess Anne wasn't the obvious breakout role in The Crown's third and fourth seasons. The show already had Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter. But Doherty made her one. Her Anne was impatient, guarded, and more interested in horses than in being royal, and the specificity of it made everything else around her look like performance. Screen International named her a Star of Tomorrow afterward, which is the industry's way of admitting it hadn't been paying attention before.
In the Spotlight
Chloe (Amazon, 2022) confirmed she could carry a six-part psychological thriller solo, landing 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. The real inflection came with Adolescence (Netflix, 2025). She played a clinical psychologist in episode three, a 52-minute single-take interrogation of a teenage murder suspect, and won both the Emmy and the Golden Globe for supporting actress. She's also in A Thousand Blows (Disney+/Hulu) as Mary Carr, head of the Victorian-era Forty Elephants crime syndicate. Two shows, two awards, one year.
Side Notes
Before Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, she was a midfielder who captained Crawley Wasps and drew interest from Chelsea Women. She chose acting over the pitch and won the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year Award in 2015 while still in training, for singing 'Broadway Baby.' She keeps working with Stephen Graham across both Adolescence and A Thousand Blows, which has the feel of a deliberate creative partnership rather than a lucky repeat booking.