Diana Rigg
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 20, 1938
- Died
- September 10, 2020 (aged 82)
- Birthplace
- Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
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Filmography
Last Night in Soho
Movie · as Ms. Collins
The Snail and the Whale
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Black Narcissus
TV · as Mother Dorothea · 3 eps
All Creatures Great & Small
TV · as Mrs Pumphrey · 2 eps
Breathe
Movie · as Lady Neville
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Movie · as Aunt Diana
Victoria
TV · as Duchess of Buccleuch · 8 eps
Professor Branestawm Returns
Movie · as Lady Pagwell
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Movie · as Self (archive material)
The Honourable Rebel
Movie · as Narrator
You, Me and the Apocalypse
TV · as Sutton, Sutton (voice) · 4 eps
The Kumars
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
TV · as Mayor Pink Panda (voice) · 3 eps
Detectorists
TV · as Veronica · 6 eps
The Lark Ascending
Movie · as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
Game of Thrones
TV · as Olenna Tyrell · 18 eps
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV · as Self - Participant · 1 ep
The Painted Veil
Movie · as Mother Superior
Heidi
Movie · as Grandmamma
Extras
TV · as Diana Rigg · 1 ep
Doctor Who
TV · as Mrs Gillyflower · 1 ep
Parkinson
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie · as Self
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
TV · as Queen Henrietta Maria · 2 eps
Victoria & Albert
Movie · as Baroness Lehzen
Murder in Mind
TV · as Jill Craig · 1 ep
Victoria & Albert
TV · as Baroness Lehzen · 2 eps
In the Beginning
TV · as Mature Rebeccah · 2 eps
Parting Shots
Movie · as Lisa
The American
Movie · as Madame de Bellegarde
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
TV · as Adela Bradley · 5 eps
Parkinson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Movie · as Evgenia
Rebecca
TV · as Mrs. Danvers · 2 eps
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Movie · as Mrs. Golightly
Samson and Delilah
TV · as Mara · 2 eps
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
TV · as Mrs Golightly · 1 ep
The Haunting of Helen Walker
Movie · as Mrs. Grose
A Good Man in Africa
Movie · as Chloe Fanshawe
Running Delilah
Movie · as Judith
The World of Jim Henson
Movie · as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
Genghis Cohn
Movie · as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Movie · as Mme. Colbert
Unexplained Laughter
Movie · as Lydia
Black Leather Jacket
Movie · as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
Mother Love
TV · as Helena Vesey · 4 eps
The Play on One
TV · as Lydia · 1 ep
A Hazard of Hearts
Movie · as Lady Harriet Vulcan
Snow White
Movie · as Evil Queen
The Worst Witch
Movie · as Constance Hardbroom
Bleak House
TV · as Lady Honoria Dedlock · 7 eps
Screen Two
TV · as Frieda von Stangel · 1 ep
King Lear
Movie · as Regan
Evil Under the Sun
Movie · as Arlena Stuart Marshall
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Movie · as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
Little Eyolf
Movie · as Rita Allmers
Witness for the Prosecution
Movie · as Christine Vole
Wogan
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
The Great Muppet Caper
Movie · as Lady Holiday
Hedda Gabler
Movie · as Hedda Gabler
The Marquise
Movie · as The Marquise Eloise
Masterpiece Mystery
TV · as Self - Host · 373 eps
The Serpent Son
TV · as Clytemnestra · 3 eps
A Little Night Music
Movie · as Charlotte Mittelheim
Three Piece Suite
Movie · as Various Roles
Three Piece Suite
TV · as Various Characters
In This House of Brede
Movie · as Dame Philippa
Affairs of the Heart
TV · as Grace Gracedew · 1 ep
Theatre of Blood
Movie · as Edwina Lionheart
Diana
TV · as Diana Smythe · 15 eps
The Hospital
Movie · as Barbara Drummond
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Julius Caesar
Movie · as Portia
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Movie · as Tracy Di Vicenzo
Shot On Ice
Movie · as Self
The Assassination Bureau
Movie · as Sonya Winter
Minikillers
Movie · as Woman tourist
Swiss Movement
Movie · as Self
The Diadem
Movie · as Secret Agent
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie · as Helena
Omnibus
TV · as Self · 1 ep
BBC Play of the Month
TV · as Rita Allmers · 1 ep
The Hothouse
Movie · as Anita Fender
Our Man in the Caribbean
Movie · as Francy (archive footage)
Festival
TV · as Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus · 1 ep
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Avengers
TV · as Emma Peel · 51 eps
The Mike Douglas Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Anita Fender · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Host, Self - Nominee, Self - Co-Host / Presenter, Self - Winner · 1 ep
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Christine · 1 ep
The BAFTA Awards
TV · as Self · 1 ep