Diana Rigg
Biography
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (20 July 1938 - 10 September 2020) was an English actress. She played Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965-1968) and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013-2017). She has also had a career in theatre, including playing the title role in Medea, both in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was made a CBE in 1988 and a Dame in 1994 for services to drama. Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. She made her Broadway debut in the 1971 production of Abelard & Heloise. Her film roles include Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968); Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Lady Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper (1981); and Arlena Marshall in Evil Under the Sun (1982). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC miniseries Mother Love (1989), and an Emmy Award for her role as Mrs. Danvers in an adaptation of Rebecca (1997). Her other television credits include You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), Detectorists (2015), and the Doctor Who episode "The Crimson Horror" (2013) with her daughter, Rachael Stirling. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana Rigg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Tracy Di Vicenzo
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Lydia
Unexplained Laughter
Arlena Stuart Marshall
Evil Under the Sun
Self
Shot On Ice
Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Constance Hardbroom
The Worst Witch
Barbara Drummond
The Hospital
Chloe Fanshawe
A Good Man in Africa
Edwina Lionheart
Theatre of Blood
Mother Superior
The Painted Veil
Lady Holiday
The Great Muppet Caper
Lady Harriet Vulcan
A Hazard of Hearts
Sonya Winter
The Assassination Bureau
Charlotte Mittelheim
A Little Night Music
Dame Philippa
In This House of Brede
Evil Queen
Snow White
Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Helena
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Baroness Lehzen
Victoria & Albert
Minikillers
Judith
Running Delilah
Various Roles
Three Piece Suite
Baroness Frieda von Stangel
Genghis Cohn
Rita Allmers
Little Eyolf
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
Mme. Colbert
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
Black Leather Jacket
Anita Fender
The Hothouse
The Marquise Eloise
The Marquise
Regan
King Lear
Lady Pagwell
Professor Branestawm Returns
Mrs. Golightly
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Self (archive material)
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Narrator
The Honourable Rebel
Lisa
Parting Shots
Lady Neville
Breathe
Evgenia
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Aunt Diana
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Portia
Julius Caesar
Madame de Bellegarde
The American
Mrs. Grose
The Haunting of Helen Walker
Ms. Collins
Last Night in Soho
Narrator (voice)
The Snail and the Whale
Lady Holiday (archive footage)
The World of Jim Henson
Self
Swiss Movement
Grandmamma
Heidi
Secret Agent
Der goldene Schlüssel
Francy (archive footage)
Our Man in the Caribbean
Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
The Lark Ascending
Christine Vole
Witness for the Prosecution
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
50
Gender
Female
Birthday
1938-07-20
Place of Birth
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
Dame Diana Rigg