Diana Rigg

Actor

Born July 20, 1938 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK

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.

Filmography

Last Night in Soho

Ms. Collins

Black Narcissus

Mother Dorothea

The Snail and the Whale

Narrator (voice)

All Creatures Great & Small

Mrs Pumphrey

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

Aunt Diana

Breathe

Lady Neville

Victoria

Duchess of Buccleuch

Professor Branestawm Returns

Lady Pagwell

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

Self (archive material)

You, Me and the Apocalypse

Sutton

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

Mayor Pink Panda (voice)

Detectorists

Veronica

The Lark Ascending

Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Self - Participant

Game of Thrones

Olenna Tyrell

The Painted Veil

Mother Superior

Heidi

Grandmamma

Extras

Diana Rigg

Doctor Who

Mrs Gillyflower

Charles II: The Power and The Passion

Queen Henrietta Maria

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Self

Victoria & Albert

Baroness Lehzen

Victoria & Albert

Baroness Lehzen

Murder in Mind

Jill Craig

In the Beginning

Mature Rebeccah

Parting Shots

Lisa

The American

Madame de Bellegarde

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

Adela Bradley

Parkinson

Self

Danielle Steel's Zoya

Evgenia

Rebecca

Mrs. Danvers

Samson and Delilah

Mara

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

Mrs Golightly

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

Mrs. Golightly

The Haunting of Helen Walker

Mrs. Grose

The World of Jim Henson

Lady Holiday (archive footage)

A Good Man in Africa

Chloe Fanshawe

Running Delilah

Judith

Genghis Cohn

Baroness Frieda von Stangel

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Mme. Colbert

Mother Love

Helena Vesey

Unexplained Laughter

Lydia

Black Leather Jacket

Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)

The Play on One

Lydia

A Hazard of Hearts

Lady Harriet Vulcan

Snow White

Evil Queen

The Worst Witch

Constance Hardbroom

Bleak House

Lady Honoria Dedlock

Screen Two

Frieda von Stangel

Affairs of the Heart

Grace Gracedew

King Lear

Regan

Witness for the Prosecution

Christine Vole

Little Eyolf

Rita Allmers

Wogan

Self - Guest

Evil Under the Sun

Arlena Stuart Marshall

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall

The Great Muppet Caper

Lady Holiday

Hedda Gabler

The Marquise

The Marquise Eloise

Masterpiece Mystery

Self - Host

The Serpent Son

Clytemnestra

A Little Night Music

Charlotte Mittelheim

Three Piece Suite

Various Roles

In This House of Brede

Dame Philippa

Affairs of the Heart

Grace Gracedew

Theatre of Blood

Edwina Lionheart

The Hospital

Barbara Drummond

Julius Caesar

Portia

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Tracy Di Vicenzo

The Assassination Bureau

Sonya Winter

Minikillers

Woman tourist

Shot On Ice

Self

Swiss Movement

Self

The Diadem

Secret Agent

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Helena

Omnibus

Self

BBC Play of the Month

Rita Allmers

Our Man in the Caribbean

Francy (archive footage)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Self

The Mike Douglas Show

Self

The Avengers

Emma Peel

Armchair Theatre

Anita Fender

Tony Awards

Self - Host

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Christine

The BAFTA Awards

Self