--- title: Dragon Con Costume: 85-Year-Old Slays as Olenna Tyrell description: Thousands of cosplayers and pop culture aficionados flocked south this weekend to attend Dragon Con, where an 85-year-old woman in a wheelchair stole the show. canonical: https://time.com/4927006/dragon-con-olenna-tyrell-costume/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-05T14:06:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:59.780Z og:title: This 85-Year-Old Woman Slayed the Competition at Dragon Con og:description: She was dressed as Game of Thrones' Olenna Tyrell og:url: https://time.com/4927006/dragon-con-olenna-tyrell-costume/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57c9cce1720a1842/6988ae2b0b72e3a75d6ebb89/olenna-tyrell.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4893 og:image:height: 2752 og:image:alt: olenna-tyrell og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This 85-Year-Old Woman Slayed the Competition at Dragon Con twitter:description: She was dressed as Game of Thrones' Olenna Tyrell twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57c9cce1720a1842/6988ae2b0b72e3a75d6ebb89/olenna-tyrell.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This 85-Year-Old Woman in a _Game of Thrones_ Costume Slayed at Dragon Con > Sponsored content. 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Dressed in full wardrobe and sitting on her own wheelchair Iron Throne, the world’s coolest grandma perfectly channeled fan favorite Olenna Tyrell, Dame Diana Rigg’s Emmy-nominated character. She even carried a sign that read, “It was me,” referencing Lady Tyrell’s dying confession to the murder of King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson). > [](https://twitter.com/pfangirl/status/904091152143585280) Following her death by poison in season 7’s “The Queen’s Justice,” [_GoT_ co-showrunner D.B. Weiss declared](http://ew.com/tv/2017/07/31/game-of-thrones-olenna-tyrell-death/), “She’s probably the only character to win her own death scene.” _This_ [_article_](http://ew.com/tv/2017/09/04/game-of-thrones-85-year-old-cosplays-olenna-tyrell/) _originally appeared on EW.com_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4927006/dragon-con-olenna-tyrell-costume/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4927006/dragon-con-olenna-tyrell-costume/"},"headline":"This 85-Year-Old Woman in a Game of Thrones Costume Slayed at Dragon Con","datePublished":"2017-09-05T14:06:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:59.780Z","description":"She was dressed as Game of Thrones' Olenna Tyrell","url":"https://time.com/4927006/dragon-con-olenna-tyrell-costume/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57c9cce1720a1842/6988ae2b0b72e3a75d6ebb89/olenna-tyrell.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Derek Lawrence / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57c9cce1720a1842/6988ae2b0b72e3a75d6ebb89/olenna-tyrell.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"olenna-tyrell","caption":"Diana Rigg as Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones","creditText":"Macall B. 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