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