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Diana Rigg

Born 1938-07-20
Died 2020-09-10
📍 Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK

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.

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Filmography 90

Last Night in Soho
as Ms. Collins
2021
Black Narcissus
as Mother Dorothea
2020
The Snail and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
2020
All Creatures Great & Small
as Mrs Pumphrey
2020
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Aunt Diana
2017
Breathe
as Lady Neville
2017
Victoria
as Duchess of Buccleuch
2016
Professor Branestawm Returns
as Lady Pagwell
2015
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
2015
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton
2015
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton (voice)
2015
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
as Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
2014
Detectorists
as Veronica
2014
The Lark Ascending
as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
2012
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
Game of Thrones
as Olenna Tyrell
2011
The Painted Veil
as Mother Superior
2006
Heidi
as Grandmamma
2005
Extras
as Diana Rigg
2005
Doctor Who
as Mrs Gillyflower
2005
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as Queen Henrietta Maria
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen
2001
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen
2001
Murder in Mind
as Jill Craig
2001
In the Beginning
as Mature Rebeccah
2000
Parting Shots
as Lisa
1999
The American
as Madame de Bellegarde
1998
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
as Adela Bradley
1998
Parkinson
as Self
1998
Danielle Steel's Zoya
as Evgenia
1997
Rebecca
as Mrs. Danvers
1997
Samson and Delilah
as Mara
1996
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs Golightly
1996
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Golightly
1996
The Haunting of Helen Walker
as Mrs. Grose
1995
The World of Jim Henson
as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
1994
A Good Man in Africa
as Chloe Fanshawe
1994
Running Delilah
as Judith
1994
Genghis Cohn
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
1993
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Mme. Colbert
1992
Mother Love
as Helena Vesey
1989
Unexplained Laughter
as Lydia
1989
Black Leather Jacket
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
1989
The Play on One
as Lydia
1988
A Hazard of Hearts
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
1987
Snow White
as Evil Queen
1987
The Worst Witch
as Constance Hardbroom
1986
Bleak House
as Lady Honoria Dedlock
1985
Affairs of the Heart
as Grace Gracedew
1983
King Lear
as Regan
1983
Witness for the Prosecution
as Christine Vole
1982
Little Eyolf
as Rita Allmers
1982
Wogan
as Self - Guest
1982
Wogan
as Self
1982
Evil Under the Sun
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
1982
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
1982
The Great Muppet Caper
as Lady Holiday
1981
Hedda Gabler
as Hedda Gabler
1981
The Marquise
as The Marquise Eloise
1980
Masterpiece Mystery
as Self - Host
1980
The Serpent Son
as Clytemnestra
1979
A Little Night Music
as Charlotte Mittelheim
1977
Three Piece Suite
1977
Three Piece Suite
as Various Roles
1977
Three Piece Suite
as Various Roles
1977
In This House of Brede
as Dame Philippa
1975
Theatre of Blood
as Edwina Lionheart
1973
The Hospital
as Barbara Drummond
1971
Julius Caesar
as Portia
1970
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
1969
The Assassination Bureau
as Sonya Winter
1969
Minikillers
as Woman tourist
1969
Shot On Ice
as Self
1969
Swiss Movement
as Self
1969
The Diadem
as Secret Agent
1969
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Helena
1968
Omnibus
as Self
1967
BBC Play of the Month
as Rita Allmers
1965
Our Man in the Caribbean
as Francy (archive footage)
1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
The Avengers
as Emma Peel
1961
Armchair Theatre
as Anita Fender
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Co-Host / Presenter
1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Christine
1951
The BAFTA Awards
as Self
1949