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My Take
Emma Corrin strikes me as the rare performer who arrived seemingly fully formed. Playing Princess Diana in The Crown was a career-making trap, an icon everyone thinks they already know, yet Corrin found the wounded, watchful person beneath the myth and won a Golden Globe for it. What impresses me more is everything since: rather than cashing in on period-drama prestige, they have chased thorny stage work and offbeat roles while speaking openly about identity on their own terms. Cambridge-educated, born in 1995, still early in the run. I would bet on Corrin becoming one of the defining British actors of this generation, and I rarely bet that confidently.
Overview
Emma Louise Corrin (born 13 December 1995) is an English actor who has worked on stage and screen. They gained international recognition for portraying Diana, Princess of Wales, in the fourth season of the Netflix historical drama The Crown (2020), for which they won a Golden Globe and a Critics' Choice Award, and received Primetime Emmy and Actors Award nominations.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Emma Corrin
- Name (Japanese)
- エマ・コリン
- Reading
- えま・こりん
- Born
- December 13, 1995 (age 30)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Boar
- Origin
- Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- St John's College
Awards & achievements
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.