Emma Corrin
Emma-Louise Corrin[2] (born 13 December 1995)[3] is an English actress. She[a] portrayed Diana, Princess of Wales in the fourth season of the Netflix period drama series The Crown,[4] for which she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama[5] and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Emma-Louise Corrin was born on 13 December 1995 in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent.[6] Her father, Chris Corrin, is a businessman and her mother, Juliette Corrin, is a speech therapist from South Africa. She has two younger brothers, Richard and Jonty.[7] Her family is based in Seal, Kent, near Sevenoaks.[8]
Corrin attended the Roman Catholic Woldingham School in Surrey, an all-girl boarding school where she developed her interest in acting and dance.[7][9] She took a gap year, during which she 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. She 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