Diana Rigg
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 20, 1938
- Died
- September 10, 2020
- Birthplace
- Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Last Night in Soho 2021
as Ms. Collins
The Snail and the Whale 2020
as Narrator (voice)
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong 2017
as Aunt Diana
Breathe 2017
as Lady Neville
Professor Branestawm Returns 2015
as Lady Pagwell
- The Honourable Rebel
The Honourable Rebel 2015
as Narrator
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC 2015
as Self (archive material)
The Lark Ascending 2012
as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
The Painted Veil 2006
as Mother Superior
Heidi 2005
as Grandmamma
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There 2003
as Self
Victoria & Albert 2001
as Baroness Lehzen
Parting Shots 1999
as Lisa
The American 1998
as Madame de Bellegarde
Danielle Steel's Zoya 1997
as Evgenia
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders 1996
as Mrs. Golightly
The Haunting of Helen Walker 1995
as Mrs. Grose
The World of Jim Henson 1994
as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
A Good Man in Africa 1994
as Chloe Fanshawe
Running Delilah 1994
as Judith
Genghis Cohn 1993
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris 1992
as Mme. Colbert
Unexplained Laughter 1989
as Lydia
Black Leather Jacket 1989
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
A Hazard of Hearts 1987
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
Snow White 1987
as Evil Queen
The Worst Witch 1986
as Constance Hardbroom
King Lear 1983
as Regan
Witness for the Prosecution 1982
as Christine Vole
Little Eyolf 1982
as Rita Allmers
Evil Under the Sun 1982
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' 1982
as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
The Great Muppet Caper 1981
as Lady Holiday
Hedda Gabler 1981
as Hedda Gabler
The Marquise 1980
as The Marquise Eloise
A Little Night Music 1977
as Charlotte Mittelheim
Three Piece Suite 1977
as Various Roles
In This House of Brede 1975
as Dame Philippa
Theatre of Blood 1973
as Edwina Lionheart
The Hospital 1971
as Barbara Drummond
Julius Caesar 1970
as Portia
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
The Assassination Bureau 1969
as Sonya Winter
Minikillers 1969
as Woman tourist
The Diadem 1969
as Secret Agent
Swiss Movement 1969
as Self
Shot On Ice 1969
as Self
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1968
as Helena
- The Hothouse
The Hothouse 1964
as Anita Fender
Our Man in the Caribbean 1964
as Francy (archive footage)
Credits from TMDB.