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.
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 (Movies)
Last Night in Soho
Character:Ms. Collins
Release Date:21/10/2021
The Snail and the Whale
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:21/10/2020
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Character:Aunt Diana
Release Date:30/12/2017
Breathe
Character:Lady Neville
Release Date:13/10/2017
Professor Branestawm Returns
Character:Lady Pagwell
Release Date:24/12/2015
The Honourable Rebel
Character:Narrator
Release Date:04/12/2015
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Character:Self (archive material)
Release Date:08/11/2015
The Lark Ascending
Character:Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
Release Date:13/01/2012
The Painted Veil
Character:Mother Superior
Release Date:09/12/2006
Heidi
Character:Grandmamma
Release Date:19/08/2005
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Character:Self
Release Date:03/04/2003
Victoria & Albert
Character:Baroness Lehzen
Release Date:26/08/2001
Parting Shots
Character:Lisa
Release Date:14/05/1999
The American
Character:Madame de Bellegarde
Release Date:26/12/1998
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Character:Evgenia
Release Date:26/07/1997
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Character:Mrs. Golightly
Release Date:13/10/1996
The Haunting of Helen Walker
Character:Mrs. Grose
Release Date:03/12/1995
The World of Jim Henson
Character:Lady Holiday (archive footage)
Release Date:23/11/1994
A Good Man in Africa
Character:Chloe Fanshawe
Release Date:14/07/1994
Running Delilah
Character:Judith
Release Date:22/03/1994
Genghis Cohn
Character:Baroness Frieda von Stangel
Release Date:09/11/1993
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Character:Mme. Colbert
Release Date:27/12/1992
Unexplained Laughter
Character:Lydia
Release Date:25/04/1989
Black Leather Jacket
Character:Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1989
A Hazard of Hearts
Character:Lady Harriet Vulcan
Release Date:27/12/1987
Snow White
Character:Evil Queen
Release Date:04/12/1987
The Worst Witch
Character:Constance Hardbroom
Release Date:22/10/1986
King Lear
Character:Regan
Release Date:03/04/1983
Witness for the Prosecution
Character:Christine Vole
Release Date:04/12/1982
Little Eyolf
Character:Rita Allmers
Release Date:19/07/1982
Evil Under the Sun
Character:Arlena Stuart Marshall
Release Date:05/03/1982
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Character:Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
Release Date:01/01/1982
The Great Muppet Caper
Character:Lady Holiday
Release Date:26/06/1981
Hedda Gabler
Character:Hedda Gabler
Release Date:03/03/1981
The Marquise
Character:The Marquise Eloise
Release Date:07/09/1980
A Little Night Music
Character:Charlotte Mittelheim
Release Date:30/09/1977
Three Piece Suite
Character:Various Roles
Release Date:01/01/1977
In This House of Brede
Character:Dame Philippa
Release Date:27/02/1975
Theatre of Blood
Character:Edwina Lionheart
Release Date:16/03/1973
The Hospital
Character:Barbara Drummond
Release Date:14/12/1971
Julius Caesar
Character:Portia
Release Date:04/06/1970
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Character:Tracy Di Vicenzo
Release Date:18/12/1969
The Assassination Bureau
Character:Sonya Winter
Release Date:09/03/1969
Minikillers
Character:
Release Date:03/01/1969
Shot On Ice
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1969
Swiss Movement
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1969
The Diadem
Character:Secret Agent
Release Date:01/01/1969
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character:Helena
Release Date:30/09/1968
The Hothouse
Character:Anita Fender
Release Date:13/12/1964
Our Man in the Caribbean
Character:Francy (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/1964
Television Appearances
Black Narcissus
Character:Mother Dorothea
All Creatures Great & Small
Character:Mrs Pumphrey
Victoria
Character:Duchess of Buccleuch
You, Me and the Apocalypse
Character:Sutton
You, Me and the Apocalypse
Character:Sutton (voice)
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Character:Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
Detectorists
Character:Veronica
The Kumars
Character:Self
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Character:Self - Participant
Game of Thrones
Character:Olenna Tyrell
Extras
Character:Diana Rigg
Doctor Who
Character:Mrs Gillyflower
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Character:Queen Henrietta Maria
Victoria & Albert
Character:Baroness Lehzen
Murder in Mind
Character:Jill Craig
In the Beginning
Character:Mature Rebeccah
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
Character:Adela Bradley
Parkinson
Character:Self
Rebecca
Character:Mrs. Danvers
Samson and Delilah
Character:Mara
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Character:Mrs. Golightly
Mother Love
Character:Helena Vesey
The Play on One
Character:Lydia
Bleak House
Character:Lady Honoria Dedlock
Affairs of the Heart
Character:Grace Gracedew
Wogan
Character:Self - Guest
Wogan
Character:Self
Masterpiece Mystery
Character:Self - Host
The Serpent Son
Character:Clytemnestra
Three Piece Suite
Character:
Diana
Character:Diana Smythe
V.I.P. Schaukel
Character:Self
Omnibus
Character:Self
BBC Play of the Month
Character:Rita Allmers
Festival
Character:Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character:Self
The Mike Douglas Show
Character:Self
The Avengers
Character:Emma Peel
Armchair Theatre
Character:Anita Fender
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Co-Host/Presenter
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Host
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Winner
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character:Christine
The BAFTA Awards
Character:Self
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