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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Game of Thrones
2011
Doctor Who
2005
0Tony Awards
1956
0Tony Awards
1956
0Tony Awards
1956
0Tony Awards
1956
The Avengers
1961
Wogan
1982
Wogan
1982
Screen Two
1985
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self · 1962
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self · 1961
Game of Thrones
as Olenna Tyrell · 2011
Doctor Who
as Mrs Gillyflower · 2005
Tony Awards
as Self - Host · 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee · 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Co-Host / Presenter · 1956
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner · 1956
The Avengers
as Emma Peel · 1961
Wogan
as Self - Guest · 1982
Wogan
as Self · 1982
Screen Two
as Frieda von Stangel · 1985
All Creatures Great & Small
as Mrs Pumphrey · 2020
Masterpiece Mystery
as Self - Host · 1980
BBC Play of the Month
as Rita Allmers · 1965
Omnibus
as Self · 1967
Parkinson
as Self · 1998
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant · 2011
Victoria
as Duchess of Buccleuch · 2016
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
as Mayor Pink Panda (voice) · 2014
Parkinson
as Self - Guest · 2004
Extras
as Diana Rigg · 2005
The BAFTA Awards
as Self · 1949
The Play on One
as Lydia · 1988
Last Night in Soho
as Ms. Collins · 2021
Murder in Mind
as Jill Craig · 2001
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self · 1971
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
as Tracy Di Vicenzo · 1969
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton · 2015
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton (voice) · 2015
Detectorists
as Veronica · 2014
Festival
as Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus · 1963
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs Golightly · 1996
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as Queen Henrietta Maria · 2003
Evil Under the Sun
as Arlena Stuart Marshall · 1982
The Painted Veil
as Mother Superior · 2006
Bleak House
as Lady Honoria Dedlock · 1985
Affairs of the Heart
as Grace Gracedew · 1974
Breathe
as Lady Neville · 2017
Black Narcissus
as Mother Dorothea · 2020
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Christine · 1951
The Great Muppet Caper
as Lady Holiday · 1981
Rebecca
as Mrs. Danvers · 1997
The Snail and the Whale
as Narrator (voice) · 2020
In the Beginning
as Mature Rebeccah · 2000
Armchair Theatre
as Anita Fender · 1956
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
as Adela Bradley · 1998
Theatre of Blood
as Edwina Lionheart · 1973
The Kumars
as Self · 2014
A Good Man in Africa
as Chloe Fanshawe · 1994
The Hospital
as Barbara Drummond · 1971
Samson and Delilah
as Mara · 1996
The Worst Witch
as Constance Hardbroom · 1986
Diana
as Diana Smythe · 1973
Snow White
as Evil Queen · 1987
Witness for the Prosecution
as Christine Vole · 1982
Three Piece Suite
· 1977
Three Piece Suite
as Various Roles · 1977
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen · 2001
A Hazard of Hearts
as Lady Harriet Vulcan · 1987
Mother Love
as Helena Vesey · 1989
The Serpent Son
as Clytemnestra · 1979
The Assassination Bureau
as Sonya Winter · 1969
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Helena · 1968
Julius Caesar
as Portia · 1970
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self · 2003
Danielle Steel's Zoya
as Evgenia · 1997
Heidi
as Grandmamma · 2005
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Golightly · 1996
Parting Shots
as Lisa · 1999
The World of Jim Henson
as Lady Holiday (archive footage) · 1994
A Little Night Music
as Charlotte Mittelheim · 1977
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Mme. Colbert · 1992
Hedda Gabler
as Hedda Gabler · 1981
The Haunting of Helen Walker
as Mrs. Grose · 1995
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall · 1982
Unexplained Laughter
as Lydia · 1989
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen · 2001
The Hothouse
as Anita Fender · 1964
In This House of Brede
as Dame Philippa · 1975
Minikillers
as Woman tourist · 1969
Running Delilah
as Judith · 1994
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material) · 2015
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Aunt Diana · 2017
Our Man in the Caribbean
as Francy (archive footage) · 1964
The American
as Madame de Bellegarde · 1998
Little Eyolf
as Rita Allmers · 1982
Three Piece Suite
as Various Roles · 1977
The Honourable Rebel
as Narrator · 2015
Genghis Cohn
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel · 1993
King Lear
as Regan · 1983
Professor Branestawm Returns
as Lady Pagwell · 2015
The Lark Ascending
as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg) · 2012
Black Leather Jacket
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage) · 1989
Shot On Ice
as Self · 1969
Swiss Movement
as Self · 1969
The Diadem
as Secret Agent · 1969
The Marquise
as The Marquise Eloise · 1980