Emma Corrin

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Emma Louise Corrin (born December 1995 in Royal Tunbridge Wells , Kent , England ) is a British actress .

Life

Emma Corrin is the daughter of a speech therapist from South Africa who made a name for herself as a speech therapist for children and a businessman. She has two younger brothers and lives with her family near the town of Sevenoaks in Kent .

Corrin attended the renowned Woldingham School , a Catholic private school in Surrey , where she attracted attention in a school performance in 2012. After a year abroad, she enrolled in 2015 at St John's College of the University of Cambridge and attended lectures in English and theater education. At the same time, Corrin worked at the student theater there until 2018 and was seen in leading and supporting roles in various performances by the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club (CUADC), the Marlowe Society and the Corpus Playroom. She played in plays by William Shakespeare ( Coriolanus , Verlorene Liebesmüh ), Federico García Lorca ( Bernarda Alba's house ) , PG Wodehouse (The Play's the Thing) or Brian Friel (Philadelphia, I'm here!) , But also in contemporary subjects by Jez Butterworth (MOJO) or Daisy Johnson (Fen) . In 2016, Corrin was represented in the female lead in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in a production by the amateur theater company Pembroke Players on tour in Japan .

Corrin played her first film and television roles in the short film Alex's Dream (2018) and an episode of the fourth season of the crime series Grantchester (2019). The 23-year-old became known to an international audience in early April 2019 through her engagement in Peter Morgan's The Crown . In the award-winning British television series about the life of Queen Elizabeth II. They should in the fourth season alongside Olivia Colman the part of Diana embody, wife of the heir to the throne Charles (played by Josh O'Connor ). The fourth season will not be broadcast before 2020. The film Misbehavior by Philippa Lowthorpe , which is about a group of women from the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) who plans to disrupt the 1970 Miss World election in London, has also not yet been released . Corrin will take on the role of Miss South Africa Jillian Jessup, who finished fifth in the end, alongside Keeley Hawes , Keira Knightley and Gugu Mbatha-Raw . As of June 2019, the Epix series Pennyworth , a Batman prequel about the butler Alfred of the same name , was released, in which Corrin took on the recurring role of Esme.

Filmography

  • 2018: Alex's Dream (short film)
  • 2019: Grantchester (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2019: Pennyworth (TV series, 4 episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile on instagram.com (accessed April 9, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c Davies, Barbara: So that's why she got it ... . In: dailymail.co.uk, April 11, 2019 (accessed April 12, 2019).
  3. ↑ Emma Corrin on findmypast.co.uk
  4. ↑ a b c d Ward, Victoria: Emma Corrin cast as young Diana Spencer in Netflix drama The Crown (Version 2). In: telegraph.co.uk, April 9, 2019 (accessed via Nexis Uni ).
  5. ↑ Profile at camdram.net (accessed April 10, 2019).
  6. ↑ Pembroke Players Japan Tour 2016: Romeo and Juliet at camdram.net (accessed April 10, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Corrin, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corrin, Emma Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Royal Tunbridge Wells , Kent , England