Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 20, 1938
Died
Sep 10, 2020
Place of Birth
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Credits
92 titles
Diana Rigg
Biography
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (July 20, 1938 – September 10, 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
Filmography
Last Night in Soho
Ms. Collins
Black Narcissus
Mother Dorothea
The Snail and the Whale
Narrator (voice)
All Creatures Great & Small
Mrs Pumphrey
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Aunt Diana
Breathe
Lady Neville
Victoria
Duchess of Buccleuch
Professor Branestawm Returns
Lady Pagwell
The Honourable Rebel
Narrator
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive material)
You, Me and the Apocalypse
Sutton
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
Detectorists
Veronica
The Kumars
Self
The Lark Ascending
Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
Game of Thrones
Olenna Tyrell
The Painted Veil
Mother Superior
Heidi
Grandmamma
Extras
Diana Rigg
Doctor Who
Mrs Gillyflower
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Queen Henrietta Maria
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
Victoria & Albert
Baroness Lehzen
Victoria & Albert
Baroness Lehzen
Murder in Mind
Jill Craig
In the Beginning
Mature Rebeccah
Parting Shots
Lisa
The American
Madame de Bellegarde
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
Adela Bradley
Parkinson
Self
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Evgenia
Rebecca
Mrs. Danvers
Samson and Delilah
Mara
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mrs Golightly
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mrs. Golightly
Samson and Delilah
Mara
The Haunting of Helen Walker
Mrs. Grose
The World of Jim Henson
Lady Holiday (archive footage)
A Good Man in Africa
Chloe Fanshawe
Running Delilah
Judith
Genghis Cohn
Baroness Frieda von Stangel
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Mme. Colbert
Mother Love
Helena Vesey
Unexplained Laughter
Lydia
Black Leather Jacket
Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
The Play on One
Lydia
A Hazard of Hearts
Lady Harriet Vulcan
Snow White
Evil Queen
The Worst Witch
Constance Hardbroom