Diana Rigg
ActingAlso Known As
Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Дайана Ригг, دایانا ریگ
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.
Movies
(50 total)
Last Night in Soho
as Ms. Collins
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
The Painted Veil
as Mother Superior
Breathe
as Lady Neville
Evil Under the Sun
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
The Great Muppet Caper
as Lady Holiday
Theatre of Blood
as Edwina Lionheart
Heidi
as Grandmamma
The Hospital
as Barbara Drummond
The Assassination Bureau
as Sonya Winter
The Snail and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
A Good Man in Africa
as Chloe Fanshawe
Julius Caesar
as Portia
The Worst Witch
as Constance Hardbroom
Snow White
as Evil Queen
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Aunt Diana
A Hazard of Hearts
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
Witness for the Prosecution
as Christine Vole
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Golightly
Danielle Steel's Zoya
as Evgenia
TV Shows
(41 total)
Game of Thrones
as Olenna Tyrell
Doctor Who
as Mrs Gillyflower
Extras
as Diana Rigg
Victoria
as Duchess of Buccleuch
Detectorists
as Veronica
All Creatures Great & Small
as Mrs Pumphrey
The Avengers
as Emma Peel
Black Narcissus
as Mother Dorothea
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton (voice)
Rebecca
as Mrs. Danvers
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as Queen Henrietta Maria
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
as Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
Murder in Mind
as Jill Craig
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
as Adela Bradley
In the Beginning
as Mature Rebeccah
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
Omnibus
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Christine