Diana Rigg
Acting
🎂 1938-07-20
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.
Cast credits(98)
Olenna Tyrell
2011
Mrs Gillyflower
2005
Self
1962
Self
1961
Self - Co-Host/Presenter
1956
Self - Host
1956
Self - Nominee
1956
Self - Winner
1956
Emma Peel
1961
Self - Guest
1982
Self
1982
Self
1967
Rita Allmers
1965
Mrs Pumphrey
2020
Self - Participant
2011
Duchess of Buccleuch
2016
Self
1998
Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
2014
Diana Rigg
2005
Sutton
2015
Sutton (voice)
2015
Tracy Di Vicenzo
1969
Ms. Collins
2021
Self
1949
Mother Superior
2006
Self
1980
Veronica
2014
Self
1971
Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus
1963
Jill Craig
2001
Lady Neville
2017
Mrs. Grose
1995
Lydia
1988
Arlena Stuart Marshall
1982
Rita Allmers
1982
Mara
1996
Evgenia
1997
Mother Dorothea
2020
Barbara Drummond
1971
Queen Henrietta Maria
2003
Aunt Diana
2017
Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage)
2002
Evil Queen
1987
Christine
1951
Lady Holiday (archive footage)
1994
Mrs. Danvers
1997
Grandmamma
2005
Mature Rebeccah
2000
Portia
1970
Edwina Lionheart
1973
Mrs. Golightly
1996
Narrator (voice)
2020
Tracy Vincenzo (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Lady Holiday
1981
Secret Agent
1969
Mme. Colbert
1992
Self
2003
Lady Honoria Dedlock
1985
Dame Philippa
1975
Christine Vole
1982
Helena
1968
Narrator
2015
Adela Bradley
1998
Mrs. Golightly
1996
Constance Hardbroom
1986
Hedda Gabler
1981
Diana Smythe
1973
Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
1982
Sonya Winter
1969
Self
2014
Lisa
1999
Mara
1996
Charlotte Mittelheim
1977
Francy (archive footage)
1964
Lady Harriet Vulcan
1987
Madame de Bellegarde
1998
Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
1989
Baroness Lehzen
2001
Lydia
1989
Self (archive material)
2015
Baroness Lehzen
2001
Chloe Fanshawe
1994
Regan
1983
1969
Judith
1994
1977
Helena Vesey
1989
Grace Gracedew
1983
Various Roles
1977
Lady Pagwell
2015
Clytemnestra
1979
Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
2012
Baroness Frieda von Stangel
1993
Anita Fender
1964
The Marquise Eloise
1980
Self
1969
Anita Fender
1956
Self
1969