Hypnotic as Princess Diana in season 4 of “The Crown”, Emma Corrin continues to impress in the series “Murder at the End of the World”. Light on a unique personality.
His face instantly strikes the mind. As if the elegance of Audrey Hepburn met the disobedience of Sinéad O’Connor. This strange mixture makes Emma Corrin a personality apart. A singularity revealed through a role that suits her well, that of a woman whose free spirit made the royal family tremble: Lady Diana.
Season 4 of The Crown marks its birth on screen. At just 26 years old, the star – who initially auditioned for the character of Camilla – received a Golden Globe and became one of the hopefuls to watch closely. From the “princess of hearts”, Emma Corrin shares the ambivalence, that of being part of a system while sailing against the tide.
In 2021, Emma Corrin’s reaction to the announcement of her nomination for the Golden Globes made the rounds on the Internet:
On the occasion ofa portrait in Vogue, published in July 2022, the performer officially reveals her non-binary status. Neither “she”, nor “he”, Emma Corrin does not recognize herself in any gender. A courageous, not to say risky, statement in an industry where shelving is more common than it seems.
Born in England’s Kent County, the actor studied theater and drama before taking a year off to teach at a primary school in Knysna, South Africa, the birthplace of her mother, Juliette Corrin. .
After small appearances in the series Grantchester and Pennyworth – which looks back on the young years of Batman’s butler – she signed her first film role in Miss Revolution by Philippa Lowthorpe. This comedy tells the story of how, in 1970, the Women’s Liberation Movement infiltrated the Miss World competition.
Netflix Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell in Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
On screen, Emma Corrin’s choices are never a matter of chance, reflecting both her taste for challenges, as in Lady Chatterley’s Lover by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre where she literally lays herself naked in front of the camera, and his interest in committed stories and marginalized characters. In Michael Grandage’s drama My Policeman, she opposite Harry Styles and plays a helpless wife in the face of her husband’s unspoken desires for a museum converter.
On stage, Emma Corrin continues to shatter conventions by playing Orlando, the title role in this play adapted from the work of Virginia Woolf. His performance earned him honors in the English play. The uniqueness of his personality is also expressed outside the sets and boards. With each public appearance and magazine cover, the star cultivates her androgynous style.
Pink hair, punkette look, they play the main character of Murder at the End of the World, a new series from the creators of The OA, Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. A heroine, an expert in computing and hacking, who is reminiscent of Lisbeth Salander from the Swedish saga Millennium. A marginal one, once again.
Soon, Emma Corrin will star in a new gothic adaptation of Nosferatu by director Robert Eggers (The With, The Lighthouse). More surprisingly, the actress will lend her features to a Marvel hero in the third part of Deadpool. A more conventional project than usual that they will succeed, without doubt, in transforming into something unique.