Emma Corrin

 ( 1995 Births ) 

Emma-Louise Corrin (born 13 December 1995) is an English actor. 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 subsequently 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. In 2024, they played Cassandra Nova in the superhero film Deadpool & Wolverine and featured in the horror film Nosferatu.

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Early life Emma-Louise Corrin was born on 13 December 1995 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent. They have two younger brothers, Richard and Jonty. Their father, Chris Corrin, is a businessman and their mother, Juliette Corrin, is a speech therapist from South Africa. Their family is based in Seal, Kent, near Sevenoaks.

Corrin attended the Roman Catholic Woldingham School in Surrey, an all-girls boarding school where they developed an interest in acting and singing. They took a gap year, during which time 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.

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Career Corrin made their television debut in 2019 with a guest appearance in an episode of the ITV detective drama Grantchester and a recurring role as Esme Winikus in the first season of the Epix DC Universe series Pennyworth. This was followed by their feature film debut as Jillian Jessup in Misbehaviour.

Corrin was cast as Diana, Princess of Wales in Season 4 of the Netflix historical drama series The Crown, which was released in November 2020. Corrin's performance received universal acclaim and earned them the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series, in addition to nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series. They were also a part of the ensemble cast that won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. They have also featured on six tracks on Little Simz's 2021 album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert.

Corrin was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for their 2021 West End debut in Anna X at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Corrin starred in the 2022 films My Policeman and Lady Chatterley's Lover. They starred in the title role of at the West End's Garrick Theatre, and received good reviews for their performance.

In 2022, Corrin became Vogue magazine's first non-binary cover star. The following year, they made their runway debut at Paris Fashion Week for Miu Miu. Corrin starred as Cassandra Nova in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Personal life Corrin coming out as queer in April 2021, and by July, they had added she/they pronouns to their Instagram account. That August, they spoke about being queer and non-binary in an interview with The New York Times Trisha Bendix, crediting Diana, Princess of Wales (whom they portray in The Crown) for facilitating their "journey" regarding their gender identity by being "so openhearted" and supportive of the LGBTQ community during her lifetime. In another interview with ITV Granada's Victoria Grimes published the same day, they said that "visibility is key" when it comes to LGBTQ issues and that their personal "journey has been a long one and has still got a long way to go". , Corrin uses they/them

Corrin was in a relationship with actor Rami Malek between 2023 and 2025.

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Acting credits

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Film

2017	Cesare	Mica
2018	Alex's Dream	Beth	Short film
2020	Misbehaviour	Jillian Jessup
2021	The Pet Psychic	Emma	Short film
2022	My Policeman	Marion Taylor
	Lady Chatterley's Lover	Lady Chatterley
2023	Good Grief	Young Performance Artist	Cameo
2024	Deadpool & Wolverine	Cassandra Nova
	Nosferatu	Anna Harding
2025		Hero	Post-production

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Television

Pennyworth	Esme Winikus	Recurring role (season 1)

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Theater

2021	Anna X	Anna	Joseph Charlton	Harold Pinter Theatre, West End
2022		Orlando	Neil Bartlett	Garrick Theatre, West End
2025	The Seagull	Nina	Anton Chekov	Barbican Centre, West End

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Audio

2021		Thessaly	Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs	Audible
2022

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Awards and nominations

2021	Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Actress in a Drama Series	The Crown
2021	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actress – Television Series Drama
2021	Broadcasting Press Guild	Breakthrough Award
2021	Hollywood Critics Association TV Awards	Best Actress in a Streaming Series, Drama
2021	Online Film & Television Association	Best Actress in a Drama Series
2021	TV Times Awards	Favourite Newcomer
2021	MTV Movie & TV Awards	Best Performance in a Show
2021	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2021	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
		Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2021	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
2022	Laurence Olivier Awards	Best Actress	Anna X
2022	Diva Awards	Actor of the Year
2022	The Queerties	Closet Door Bustdown
2022	Toronto International Film Festival	Tribute Award for Performance	My Policeman
2024	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series	A Murder at the End of the World
2025	Saturn Awards	Best Supporting Actress	Deadpool & Wolverine
2025	Critics' Choice Super Awards	Best Actress in a Superhero Movie
		Best Villain in a Movie

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