Diana Rigg
Acting
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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Filmography of
Diana Rigg
Ms. Collins
... 2021
Narrator (voice)
... 2020
Aunt Diana
... 2017
Aunt Diana/Narrator
... 2017
Lady Neville
... 2017
Lady Pagwell
... 2015
Narrator
... 2015
Mother Superior
... 2006
Grandmamma
... 2005
... 2003
Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage)
... 2002
Baroness Lehzen
... 2001
Lisa
... 1999
Madame de Bellegarde
... 1998
Mara
... 1996
Mrs. Golightly
... 1996
Mrs. Grose
... 1995
Evgenia
... 1995
Lady Holiday (archive footage)
... 1994
Chloe Fanshawe
... 1994
Judith
... 1994
Baroness Frieda von Stangel
... 1994
Mme. Colbert
... 1992
Lydia
... 1989
Lady Harriet Vulcan
... 1987
Evil Queen
... 1987
Constance Hardbroom
... 1986
Regan
... 1983
Christine Vole
... 1982
Rita Allmers
... 1982
Arlena Stuart Marshall
... 1982
Herself / Arlena Stuart Marshall
... 1982
Lady Holiday
... 1981
Hedda Gabler
... 1981
Charlotte Mittelheim
... 1977
... 1977
Dame Philippa
... 1975
Edwina Lionheart
... 1973
Barbara Drummond
... 1971
Portia
... 1970
Tracy Di Vicenzo
... 1969
Sonya Winter
... 1969
... 1969
Geheimagentin
... 1969
Self
... 1969
Self
... 1969
Helena
... 1968
Anita Fender
... 1964