Diana Rigg
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana Rigg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2021 · Last Night in Soho as Ms. Collins
- 2020 · Black Narcissus as Mother Dorothea
- 2020 · The Snail and the Whale as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · All Creatures Great & Small as Mrs Pumphrey
- 2017 · A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Aunt Diana
- 2017 · Breathe as Lady Neville
- 2016 · Victoria as Duchess of Buccleuch
- 2015 · Professor Branestawm Returns as Lady Pagwell
- 2015 · The Honourable Rebel as Narrator
- 2015 · Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive material)
- 2015 · You, Me and the Apocalypse as Sutton
- 2015 · You, Me and the Apocalypse as Sutton (voice)
- 2014 · Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero as Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
- 2014 · Detectorists as Veronica
- 2014 · The Kumars as Self
- 2011 · Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
- 2011 · Game of Thrones as Olenna Tyrell
- 2006 · The Painted Veil as Mother Superior
- 2005 · Heidi as Grandmamma
- 2005 · Extras as Diana Rigg
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Mrs Gillyflower
- 2003 · Charles II: The Power and The Passion as Queen Henrietta Maria
- 2003 · Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- 2002 · Best Ever Bond as Tracy Vincenzo (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2002 · Bond Girls Are Forever as Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage)
- 2001 · Victoria & Albert as Baroness Lehzen
- 2001 · Victoria & Albert as Baroness Lehzen
- 2001 · Murder in Mind as Jill Craig
- 2000 · In the Beginning as Mature Rebeccah
- 1999 · Parting Shots as Lisa
- 1998 · The American as Madame de Bellegarde
- 1998 · The Mrs Bradley Mysteries as Adela Bradley
- 1998 · Parkinson as Self
- 1997 · Danielle Steel's Zoya as Evgenia
- 1997 · Rebecca as Mrs. Danvers
- 1996 · Samson and Delilah as Mara
- 1996 · Samson and Delilah as Mara
- 1996 · The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders as Mrs. Golightly
- 1996 · The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders as Mrs. Golightly
- 1995 · The Haunting of Helen Walker as Mrs. Grose
- 1994 · The World of Jim Henson as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
- 1994 · A Good Man in Africa as Chloe Fanshawe
- 1994 · Running Delilah as Judith
- 1994 · Genghis Cohn as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
- 1992 · Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris as Mme. Colbert
- 1989 · Mother Love as Helena Vesey
- 1989 · Unexplained Laughter as Lydia
- 1989 · Black Leather Jacket as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
- 1988 · The Play on One as Lydia
- 1987 · A Hazard of Hearts as Lady Harriet Vulcan
- 1987 · Snow White as Evil Queen
- 1986 · The Worst Witch as Constance Hardbroom
- 1985 · Bleak House as Lady Honoria Dedlock
- 1983 · Affairs of the Heart as Grace Gracedew
- 1983 · King Lear as Regan
- 1982 · Witness for the Prosecution as Christine Vole
- 1982 · Little Eyolf as Rita Allmers
- 1982 · Wogan as Self - Guest
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1982 · Evil Under the Sun as Arlena Stuart Marshall
- 1982 · The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
- 1981 · The Great Muppet Caper as Lady Holiday
- 1981 · Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler
- 1980 · The Marquise as The Marquise Eloise
- 1980 · Masterpiece Mystery as Self
- 1979 · The Serpent Son as Clytemnestra
- 1977 · A Little Night Music as Charlotte Mittelheim
- 1977 · Three Piece Suite as
- 1977 · Three Piece Suite as Various Roles
- 1975 · In This House of Brede as Dame Philippa
- 1973 · Diana as Diana Smythe
- 1973 · Theatre of Blood as Edwina Lionheart
- 1971 · The Hospital as Barbara Drummond
- 1971 · V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
- 1970 · Julius Caesar as Portia
- 1969 · On Her Majesty's Secret Service as Tracy Di Vicenzo
- 1969 · The Assassination Bureau as Sonya Winter
- 1969 · Minikillers as
- 1969 · Shot On Ice as Self
- 1969 · Swiss Movement as Self
- 1969 · The Diadem as Secret Agent
- 1968 · A Midsummer Night's Dream as Helena
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Rita Allmers
- 1964 · The Hothouse as Anita Fender
- 1963 · The Sentimental Agent as
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1961 · The Avengers as Emma Peel
- 1956 · Armchair Theatre as Anita Fender
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Co-Host/Presenter
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Host
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Winner
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Christine