Diana Rigg

Born: 1938-07-20 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK

Died: 2020-09-10

Known For: Acting

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana Rigg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2021

Last Night in Soho as Ms. Collins

2020

All Creatures Great & Small as Mrs Pumphrey
The Snail and the Whale as Narrator (voice)
Black Narcissus as Mother Dorothea

2017

Breathe as Lady Neville
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong as Aunt Diana

2016

Victoria as Duchess of Buccleuch

2015

You, Me and the Apocalypse as Sutton
Professor Branestawm Returns as Lady Pagwell
The Honourable Rebel as Narrator
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC as Self (archive material)

2014

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero as Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
Detectorists as Veronica
The Kumars as Self

2012

The Lark Ascending as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)

2011

Game of Thrones as Olenna Tyrell
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant

2006

The Painted Veil as Mother Superior

2005

Doctor Who as Mrs Gillyflower
Extras as Diana Rigg
Heidi as Grandmamma

2003

Charles II: The Power and The Passion as Queen Henrietta Maria
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self

2001

Victoria & Albert as Baroness Lehzen
Murder in Mind as Jill Craig
Victoria & Albert as Baroness Lehzen

2000

In the Beginning as Mature Rebeccah

1999

Parting Shots as Lisa

1998

Parkinson as Self
The American as Madame de Bellegarde
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries as Adela Bradley

1997

Danielle Steel's Zoya as Evgenia
Rebecca as Mrs. Danvers

1996

Samson and Delilah as Mara
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders as Mrs. Golightly
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders as Mrs. Golightly

1995

The Haunting of Helen Walker as Mrs. Grose

1994

Running Delilah as Judith
A Good Man in Africa as Chloe Fanshawe
The World of Jim Henson as Lady Holiday (archive footage)

1993

Genghis Cohn as Baroness Frieda von Stangel

1992

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris as Mme. Colbert

1989

Unexplained Laughter as Lydia
Mother Love as Helena Vesey
Black Leather Jacket as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)

1988

The Play on One as Lydia

1987

Snow White as Evil Queen
A Hazard of Hearts as Lady Harriet Vulcan

1986

The Worst Witch as Constance Hardbroom

1985

Bleak House as Lady Honoria Dedlock

1983

King Lear as Regan
Affairs of the Heart as Grace Gracedew

1982

Wogan as Self - Guest
Evil Under the Sun as Arlena Stuart Marshall
Little Eyolf as Rita Allmers
Witness for the Prosecution as Christine Vole
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall

1981

The Great Muppet Caper as Lady Holiday
Hedda Gabler as Hedda Gabler

1980

Masterpiece Mystery as Self - Host
The Marquise as The Marquise Eloise

1979

The Serpent Son as Clytemnestra

1977

Three Piece Suite as Various Roles
A Little Night Music as Charlotte Mittelheim
Three Piece Suite

1975

In This House of Brede as Dame Philippa

1973

Theatre of Blood as Edwina Lionheart
Diana as Diana Smythe

1971

The Hospital as Barbara Drummond
V.I.P. Schaukel as Self

1967

Omnibus as Self

1965

BBC Play of the Month as Rita Allmers

1964

The Hothouse as Anita Fender
Our Man in the Caribbean as Francy (archive footage)

1963

Festival as Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self

1961

The Mike Douglas Show as Self
The Avengers as Emma Peel

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Co-Host/Presenter
Armchair Theatre as Anita Fender

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Christine

1949

The BAFTA Awards as Self