--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This 85-Year-Old Woman in a _Game of Thrones_ Costume Slayed at Dragon Con by [Derek Lawrence / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Derek Lawrence / Entertainment Weekly Sep 5, 2017 2:06 PM UTC  Diana Rigg as Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones Diana Rigg as Olenna Tyrell in Game of ThronesMacall B. Polay/HBO by [Derek Lawrence / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Derek Lawrence / Entertainment Weekly Sep 5, 2017 2:06 PM UTC Alert Cersei Lanniester immediately, because her son’s killer has been spotted in Atlanta. 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. 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. Polay/HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4927006/dragon-con-olenna-tyrell-costume/","name":"This 85-Year-Old Woman in a Game of Thrones Costume Slayed at Dragon Con"}}]}] ```