Diana Rigg
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1938-07-20
Day of Death
2020-09-10 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Diana Rigg
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2021)
Last Night in Soho
as Ms. Collins
(2020)
The Snail and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
Breathe
as Lady Neville
(2017)
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Aunt Diana
(2015)
Professor Branestawm Returns
as Lady Pagwell
(2015)
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
(2015)
The Honourable Rebel
as Narrator
(2006)
The Painted Veil
as Mother Superior
(2005)
Heidi
as Grandmamma
(2003)
(2002)
Bond Girls Are Forever
as Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage)
(2002)
Best Ever Bond
as Tracy Vincenzo (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2001)
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen
(1999)
Parting Shots
as Lisa
(1998)
The American
as Madame de Bellegarde
(1997)
Danielle Steel's Zoya
as Evgenia
(1996)
Samson and Delilah
as Mara
(1996)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Golightly
(1995)
The Haunting of Helen Walker
as Mrs. Grose
(1994)
A Good Man in Africa
as Chloe Fanshawe
(1994)
The World of Jim Henson
as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
(1994)
Running Delilah
as Judith
(1993)
Genghis Cohn
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
(1992)
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Mme. Colbert
(1989)
Black Leather Jacket
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
(1989)
Unexplained Laughter
as Lydia
(1987)
Snow White
as Evil Queen
(1987)
A Hazard of Hearts
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
(1986)
The Worst Witch
as Constance Hardbroom
(1983)
King Lear
as Regan
(1982)
Evil Under the Sun
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
(1982)
Witness for the Prosecution
as Christine Vole
(1982)
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
(1982)
Little Eyolf
as Rita Allmers
(1981)
The Great Muppet Caper
as Lady Holiday
(1981)
Hedda Gabler
as Hedda Gabler
(1980)
The Marquise
as The Marquise Eloise
(1977)
A Little Night Music
as Charlotte Mittelheim
(1977)
Three Piece Suite
as Various Roles
(1975)
In This House of Brede
as Dame Philippa
(1973)
Theatre of Blood
as Edwina Lionheart
(1971)
The Hospital
as Barbara Drummond
(1970)
Julius Caesar
as Portia
(1969)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
(1969)
The Assassination Bureau
as Sonya Winter
(1969)
Swiss Movement
as Self
(1969)
Shot On Ice
as Self
(1969)
The Diadem
as Secret Agent
(1969)
(1968)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Helena
(1964)
The Hothouse
as Anita Fender