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Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg

Actor · Born 1938-07-20 · Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK

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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…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Game of Thrones (2011) — Olenna Tyrell
  2. Last Night in Soho (2021) — Ms. Collins
  3. Doctor Who (2005) — Mrs Gillyflower
  4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) — Tracy Di Vicenzo
  5. The Painted Veil (2006) — Mother Superior
  6. Breathe (2017) — Lady Neville
  7. Evil Under the Sun (1982) — Arlena Stuart Marshall
  8. Extras (2005) — Diana Rigg
  9. The Great Muppet Caper (1981) — Lady Holiday
  10. Victoria (2016) — Duchess of Buccleuch
  11. Theatre of Blood (1973) — Edwina Lionheart
  12. Detectorists (2014) — Veronica
  13. All Creatures Great & Small (2020) — Mrs Pumphrey
  14. The Avengers (1961) — Emma Peel
  15. Heidi (2005) — Grandmamma
  16. Black Narcissus (2020) — Mother Dorothea
  17. You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015) — Sutton
  18. The Hospital (1971) — Barbara Drummond
  19. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self
  20. The Assassination Bureau (1969) — Sonya Winter
  21. The Snail and the Whale (2020) — Narrator (voice)
  22. A Good Man in Africa (1994) — Chloe Fanshawe
  23. Julius Caesar (1970) — Portia
  24. The Worst Witch (1986) — Constance Hardbroom
  25. Snow White (1987) — Evil Queen
  26. A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017) — Aunt Diana
  27. A Hazard of Hearts (1987) — Lady Harriet Vulcan
  28. Witness for the Prosecution (1982) — Christine Vole
  29. The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996) — Mrs. Golightly
  30. Rebecca (1997) — Mrs. Danvers
  31. Charles II: The Power and The Passion (2003) — Queen Henrietta Maria
  32. A Little Night Music (1977) — Charlotte Mittelheim
  33. Danielle Steel's Zoya (1997) — Evgenia
  34. Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (2014) — Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
  35. Parting Shots (1999) — Lisa
  36. Victoria & Albert (2001) — Baroness Lehzen
  37. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992) — Mme. Colbert
  38. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968) — Helena
  39. Running Delilah (1994) — Judith
  40. The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (1998) — Adela Bradley