The Crown: Elizabeth Debicki to play Princess Diana in final series – BBC News

Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki will play Diana, Princess of Wales, in the final two seasons of the hit Netflix sequence The Crown, it has been launched.

The Night time Manager superstar will desire over from the fourth season’s Emma Corrin.

Debicki joins Jonathan Pryce and Imelda Staunton for the final two seasons of the royal drama, which is anticipated to duvet the 1990s and early 2000s.

The fourth season is anticipated to be released this autumn.

“Princess Diana’s spirit, her phrases and her actions are residing in the hearts of so many,” Debicki mentioned in an announcement posted by The Crown’s decent Twitter myth.

“It is my real privilege and honour to be joining this masterful sequence, which has had me absolutely bent from episode one.”

The 29-year-extinct actress is identified for her roles in movies including The Gigantic Gatsby and Guardians of the galaxy Vol 2.

The final two sequence will consist of the spoil-up of Princess Diana and Prince Charles’ marriage and her dying in 1997, which plunged the Royal Family into crisis.

The final two sequence could well perhaps breeze on to duvet the deaths of Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother, seven weeks apart in 2002, and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee that summer.

Earlier this week, the convey launched that Oscar-nominated actor Jonathan Pryce would comply with in the footsteps of Matt Smith and Tobias Menzies to play Prince Philip in sequence four and five.

Imelda Staunton, in the intervening time, takes over from Olivia Colman because the monarch, whereas Lesley Manville will play Princess Margaret.