Emma Corrin
Emma-Louise Corrin[1] (born 13 December 1995) is an English actor[a]. They portrayed Diana, Princess of Wales in the fourth season of the Netflix historical drama The Crown (2020), for which they won a Golden Globe and were nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. They have since starred in the 2022 romantic drama films My Policeman and Lady Chatterley's Lover, and in the 2023 thriller miniseries A Murder at the End of the World.
Emma Corrin
British
Actor
2017–present
Early life
Emma-Louise Corrin was born on 13 December 1995 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent.[2] Their father, Chris Corrin, is a businessman and their mother, Juliette Corrin, is a speech therapist from South Africa. They have two younger brothers, Richard and Jonty.[3] Their family is based in Seal, Kent, near Sevenoaks.[4]
Corrin attended the Roman Catholic Woldingham School in Surrey, an all-girl boarding school where they developed their interest in acting and singing.[3][5] They took a gap year, during which they took a Shakespeare course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and volunteered as a teacher at a school in Knysna, South Africa. They studied drama at the University of Bristol, but left to study Education, English, Drama and the Arts at St John's College, Cambridge from 2015 to 2018.[2][6][7]
Personal life
In July 2021, Corrin came out as queer and in July 2022 added "they/them" pronouns to their Instagram account.[15] They later discussed identifying as non-binary in an interview with The New York Times.[16]
