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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 20, 1938
Place of Birth:
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Last Night in Soho | Ms. Collins |
| 2020 | The Snail and the Whale | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Breathe | Lady Neville |
| 2017 | A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Aunt Diana |
| 2015 | Professor Branestawm Returns | Lady Pagwell |
| 2015 | Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive material) |
| 2015 | The Honourable Rebel | Narrator |
| 2006 | The Painted Veil | Mother Superior |
| 2005 | Heidi | Grandmamma |
| 2003 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self |
| 2002 | Bond Girls Are Forever | Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Best Ever Bond | Tracy Vincenzo (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2001 | Victoria & Albert | Baroness Lehzen |
| 1999 | Parting Shots | Lisa |
| 1998 | The American | Madame de Bellegarde |
| 1997 | Danielle Steel's Zoya | Evgenia |
| 1996 | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders | Mrs. Golightly |
| 1996 | Samson and Delilah | Mara |
| 1995 | The Haunting of Helen Walker | Mrs. Grose |
| 1994 | A Good Man in Africa | Chloe Fanshawe |
| 1994 | Running Delilah | Judith |
| 1994 | The World of Jim Henson | Lady Holiday (archive footage) |
| 1993 | Genghis Cohn | Baroness Frieda von Stangel |
| 1992 | Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris | Mme. Colbert |
| 1989 | Unexplained Laughter | Lydia |
| 1989 | Black Leather Jacket | Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage) |
| 1987 | A Hazard of Hearts | Lady Harriet Vulcan |
| 1987 | Snow White | Evil Queen |
| 1986 | The Worst Witch | Constance Hardbroom |
| 1983 | King Lear | Regan |
| 1982 | Evil Under the Sun | Arlena Stuart Marshall |
| 1982 | Witness for the Prosecution | Christine Vole |
| 1982 | The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' | Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall |
| 1982 | Little Eyolf | Rita Allmers |
| 1981 | The Great Muppet Caper | Lady Holiday |
| 1981 | Hedda Gabler | Hedda Gabler |
| 1980 | The Marquise | The Marquise Eloise |
| 1977 | A Little Night Music | Charlotte Mittelheim |
| 1977 | Three Piece Suite | Various Roles |
| 1975 | In This House of Brede | Dame Philippa |
| 1973 | Theatre of Blood | Edwina Lionheart |
| 1971 | The Hospital | Barbara Drummond |
| 1970 | Julius Caesar | Portia |
| 1969 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Tracy Di Vicenzo |
| 1969 | Shot On Ice | Self |
| 1969 | The Assassination Bureau | Sonya Winter |
| 1969 | Minikillers | |
| 1969 | Swiss Movement | Self |
| 1969 | The Diadem | Secret Agent |
| 1968 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Helena |
| 1964 | The Hothouse | Anita Fender |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Black Narcissus | Mother Dorothea |
| 2020 | All Creatures Great & Small | Mrs Pumphrey |
| 2016 | Victoria | Duchess of Buccleuch |
| 2015 | You, Me and the Apocalypse | Sutton |
| 2015 | You, Me and the Apocalypse | Sutton (voice) |
| 2014 | The Kumars | Self |
| 2014 | Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero | Mayor Pink Panda (voice) |
| 2014 | Detectorists | Veronica |
| 2011 | Game of Thrones | Olenna Tyrell |
| 2011 | Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | Self - Participant |
| 2005 | Extras | Diana Rigg |
| 2005 | Doctor Who | Mrs Gillyflower |
| 2003 | Charles II: The Power and The Passion | Queen Henrietta Maria |
| 2001 | Murder in Mind | Jill Craig |
| 2001 | Victoria & Albert | Baroness Lehzen |
| 2000 | In the Beginning | Mature Rebeccah |
| 1998 | The Mrs Bradley Mysteries | Adela Bradley |
| 1998 | Parkinson | Self |
| 1997 | Rebecca | Mrs. Danvers |
| 1996 | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders | Mrs. Golightly |
| 1996 | Samson and Delilah | Mara |
| 1989 | Mother Love | Helena Vesey |
| 1988 | The Play on One | Lydia |
| 1985 | Bleak House | Lady Honoria Dedlock |
| 1983 | Affairs of the Heart | Grace Gracedew |
| 1982 | Wogan | Self - Guest |
| 1982 | Wogan | Self |
| 1980 | Masterpiece Mystery | Self |
| 1979 | The Serpent Son | Clytemnestra |
| 1977 | Three Piece Suite | |
| 1973 | Diana | Diana Smythe |
| 1971 | V.I.P. Schaukel | Self |
| 1967 | Omnibus | Self |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Rita Allmers |
| 1963 | The Sentimental Agent | |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Emma Peel |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Co-Host/Presenter |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Anita Fender |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Host |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Winner |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Christine |
| 1949 | The BAFTA Awards | Self |