Diana Rigg

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.

Known For

Game of Thrones

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Doctor Who

The Mike Douglas Show

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

Tony Awards

All Movies (50)

• Last Night in Soho2021 · as Ms. Collins
• The Snail and the Whale2020 · as Narrator (voice)
• A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong2017 · as Aunt Diana
• Breathe2017 · as Lady Neville
• Professor Branestawm Returns2015 · as Lady Pagwell
• The Honourable Rebel2015 · as Narrator
• Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC2015 · as Self (archive material)
• The Lark Ascending2012 · as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
• The Painted Veil2006 · as Mother Superior
• Heidi2005 · as Grandmamma
• Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There2003 · as Self
• Victoria & Albert2001 · as Baroness Lehzen
• Parting Shots1999 · as Lisa
• The American1998 · as Madame de Bellegarde
• Danielle Steel's Zoya1997 · as Evgenia
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders1996 · as Mrs. Golightly
• The Haunting of Helen Walker1995 · as Mrs. Grose
• The World of Jim Henson1994 · as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
• A Good Man in Africa1994 · as Chloe Fanshawe
• Running Delilah1994 · as Judith
• Genghis Cohn1993 · as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
• Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris1992 · as Mme. Colbert
• Unexplained Laughter1989 · as Lydia
• Black Leather Jacket1989 · as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
• A Hazard of Hearts1987 · as Lady Harriet Vulcan
• Snow White1987 · as Evil Queen
• The Worst Witch1986 · as Constance Hardbroom
• King Lear1983 · as Regan
• Witness for the Prosecution1982 · as Christine Vole
• Little Eyolf1982 · as Rita Allmers
• Evil Under the Sun1982 · as Arlena Stuart Marshall
• The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'1982 · as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
• The Great Muppet Caper1981 · as Lady Holiday
• Hedda Gabler1981 · as Hedda Gabler
• The Marquise1980 · as The Marquise Eloise
• A Little Night Music1977 · as Charlotte Mittelheim
• Three Piece Suite1977 · as Various Roles
• In This House of Brede1975 · as Dame Philippa
• Theatre of Blood1973 · as Edwina Lionheart
• The Hospital1971 · as Barbara Drummond
• Julius Caesar1970 · as Portia
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service1969 · as Tracy Di Vicenzo
• The Assassination Bureau1969 · as Sonya Winter
• Minikillers1969 · as Woman tourist
• Shot On Ice1969 · as Self
• Swiss Movement1969 · as Self
• The Diadem1969 · as Secret Agent
• A Midsummer Night's Dream1968 · as Helena
• The Hothouse1964 · as Anita Fender
• Our Man in the Caribbean1964 · as Francy (archive footage)

All TV Shows (48)

• Black Narcissus2020 · as Mother Dorothea
• All Creatures Great & Small2020 · as Mrs Pumphrey
• Victoria2016 · as Duchess of Buccleuch
• You, Me and the Apocalypse2015 · as Sutton
• You, Me and the Apocalypse2015 · as Sutton (voice)
• Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero2014 · as Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
• Detectorists2014 · as Veronica
• The Kumars2014 · as Self
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip2011 · as Self - Participant
• Game of Thrones2011 · as Olenna Tyrell
• Extras2005 · as Diana Rigg
• Doctor Who2005 · as Mrs Gillyflower
• Charles II: The Power and The Passion2003 · as Queen Henrietta Maria
• Victoria & Albert2001 · as Baroness Lehzen
• Murder in Mind2001 · as Jill Craig
• In the Beginning2000 · as Mature Rebeccah
• The Mrs Bradley Mysteries1998 · as Adela Bradley
• Parkinson1998 · as Self
• Rebecca1997 · as Mrs. Danvers
• Samson and Delilah1996 · as Mara
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders1996 · as Mrs Golightly
• Mother Love1989 · as Helena Vesey
• The Play on One1988 · as Lydia
• Bleak House1985 · as Lady Honoria Dedlock
• Screen Two1985 · as Frieda von Stangel
• Affairs of the Heart1983 · as Grace Gracedew
• Wogan1982 · as Self - Guest
• Wogan1982 · as Self
• Masterpiece Mystery1980 · as Self - Host
• The Serpent Son1979 · as Clytemnestra
• Three Piece Suite1977
• Three Piece Suite1977 · as Various Roles
• Affairs of the Heart1974 · as Grace Gracedew
• Diana1973 · as Diana Smythe
• V.I.P. Schaukel1971 · as Self
• Omnibus1967 · as Self
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Rita Allmers
• Festival1963 · as Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self
• The Avengers1961 · as Emma Peel
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Anita Fender
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Host
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Nominee
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Co-Host / Presenter
• Tony Awards1956 · as Self - Winner
• Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Christine
• The BAFTA Awards1949 · as Self