Diana Rigg
Born
July 20, 1938
Died
September 10, 2020 (82 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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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Known For
Last Night in Soho
Ms. Collins
2021
Black Narcissus
Mother Dorothea · (3 episodes)
2020
The Snail and the Whale
Narrator (voice)
2020
All Creatures Great & Small
Mrs Pumphrey · (2 episodes)
2020
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Aunt Diana
2017
Breathe
Lady Neville
2017
Victoria
Duchess of Buccleuch · (8 episodes)
2016
Professor Branestawm Returns
Lady Pagwell
2015
The Honourable Rebel
Narrator
2015
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive material)
2015
You, Me and the Apocalypse
Sutton · (4 episodes)
2015
You, Me and the Apocalypse
Sutton (voice) · (1 episode)
2015
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Mayor Pink Panda (voice) · (3 episodes)
2014
Detectorists
Veronica · (6 episodes)
2014
The Kumars
Self · (1 episode)
2014
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant · (1 episode)
2011
Game of Thrones
Olenna Tyrell · (18 episodes)
2011
The Painted Veil
Mother Superior
2006
Heidi
Grandmamma
2005
Extras
Diana Rigg · (1 episode)
2005
Doctor Who
Mrs Gillyflower · (1 episode)
2005
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Queen Henrietta Maria · (2 episodes)
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
2003
Best Ever Bond
Tracy Vincenzo (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002
Bond Girls Are Forever
Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage)
2002
Victoria & Albert
Baroness Lehzen
2001
Victoria & Albert
Baroness Lehzen · (2 episodes)
2001
Murder in Mind
Jill Craig · (1 episode)
2001
In the Beginning
Mature Rebeccah · (2 episodes)
2000
Parting Shots
Lisa
1999
The American
Madame de Bellegarde
1998
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
Adela Bradley · (5 episodes)
1998
Parkinson
Self · (1 episode)
1998
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Evgenia
1997
Rebecca
Mrs. Danvers · (2 episodes)
1997
Samson and Delilah
Mara
1996
Samson and Delilah
Mara · (2 episodes)
1996
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mrs. Golightly · (4 episodes)
1996
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mrs. Golightly
1996
The Haunting of Helen Walker
Mrs. Grose
1995
The World of Jim Henson
Lady Holiday (archive footage)
1994
A Good Man in Africa
Chloe Fanshawe
1994
Running Delilah
Judith
1994
Genghis Cohn
Baroness Frieda von Stangel
1993
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Mme. Colbert
1992
Mother Love
Helena Vesey · (4 episodes)
1989
Unexplained Laughter
Lydia
1989
Black Leather Jacket
Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
1989
The Play on One
Lydia · (1 episode)
1988
A Hazard of Hearts
Lady Harriet Vulcan
1987
Snow White
Evil Queen
1987
The Worst Witch
Constance Hardbroom
1986
Bleak House
Lady Honoria Dedlock · (7 episodes)
1985
Affairs of the Heart
Grace Gracedew · (6 episodes)
1983
King Lear
Regan
1983
Witness for the Prosecution
Christine Vole
1982
Little Eyolf
Rita Allmers
1982
Wogan
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1982
Wogan
Self · (2 episodes)
1982
Evil Under the Sun
Arlena Stuart Marshall
1982
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
1982
The Great Muppet Caper
Lady Holiday
1981
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
1981
The Marquise
The Marquise Eloise
1980
Masterpiece Mystery
Self · (941 episodes)
1980
The Serpent Son
Clytemnestra · (3 episodes)
1979
A Little Night Music
Charlotte Mittelheim
1977
Three Piece Suite
(1 episode)
1977
Three Piece Suite
Various Roles
1977
In This House of Brede
Dame Philippa
1975
Diana
Diana Smythe · (15 episodes)
1973
Theatre of Blood
Edwina Lionheart
1973
The Hospital
Barbara Drummond
1971
V.I.P. Schaukel
Self · (1 episode)
1971
Julius Caesar
Portia
1970
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Tracy Di Vicenzo
1969
The Assassination Bureau
Sonya Winter
1969
Minikillers
1969
Shot On Ice
Self
1969
Swiss Movement
Self
1969
The Diadem
Secret Agent
1969
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena
1968
Omnibus
Self · (1 episode)
1967
BBC Play of the Month
Rita Allmers · (1 episode)
1965
The Hothouse
Anita Fender
1964
Festival
Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus · (1 episode)
1963
The Sentimental Agent
(1 episode)
1963
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · (1 episode)
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self · (1 episode)
1961
The Avengers
Emma Peel · (51 episodes)
1961
Armchair Theatre
Anita Fender · (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Co-Host/Presenter · (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Host · (1 episode)
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Nominee · (3 episodes)
1956
Tony Awards
Self - Winner · (1 episode)
1956
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Christine · (1 episode)
1951
The BAFTA Awards
Self · (1 episode)
1949