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