Acting
Diana Rigg
EN, DE cinema · 50 credits
Born
20 July 1938
Died
10 September 2020 (aged 82)
Birthplace
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known as Dame Diana Rigg · Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg · Дайана Ригг · دایانا ریگ
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
Filmography
Last Night in Soho
as Ms. Collins
The Snail and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
Breathe
as Lady Neville
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Aunt Diana
Professor Branestawm Returns
as Lady Pagwell
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
The Lark Ascending
as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
The Painted Veil
as Mother Superior
Heidi
as Grandmamma
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen
Parting Shots
as Lisa
The American
as Madame de Bellegarde
Danielle Steel's Zoya
as Evgenia
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Golightly
The Haunting of Helen Walker
as Mrs. Grose
A Good Man in Africa
as Chloe Fanshawe
Running Delilah
as Judith
The World of Jim Henson
as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
Genghis Cohn
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Mme. Colbert
Black Leather Jacket
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
A Hazard of Hearts
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
Snow White
as Evil Queen
The Worst Witch
as Constance Hardbroom
King Lear
as Regan
Evil Under the Sun
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
Little Eyolf
as Rita Allmers
Witness for the Prosecution
as Christine Vole
The Great Muppet Caper
as Lady Holiday
Hedda Gabler
as Hedda Gabler
The Marquise
as The Marquise Eloise
A Little Night Music
as Charlotte Mittelheim
Three Piece Suite
as Various Roles
In This House of Brede
as Dame Philippa
Theatre of Blood
as Edwina Lionheart
The Hospital
as Barbara Drummond
Julius Caesar
as Portia
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
Shot On Ice
as Self
The Assassination Bureau
as Sonya Winter
Minikillers
as Woman tourist
Swiss Movement
as Self
The Diadem
as Secret Agent
The Hothouse
1964
The Hothouse
as Anita Fender
Our Man in the Caribbean
as Francy (archive footage)