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Diana Rigg

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.

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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

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

1994

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

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

Swiss Movement

1969

as Self

The Diadem

1969

as Secret Agent

Shot On Ice

1969

as Self

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1968

as Helena

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 - Host

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Nominee

Tony Awards

1956

as Self - Co-Host/Presenter

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

as Christine