Diana Rigg
Acting
- Born:
- 1938-07-20
- Died:
- 2020-09-10
- Place of birth:
- Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (July 20, 1938 – September 10, 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.
Known For
Filmography
Last Night in Soho
Black Narcissus
The Snail and the Whale
All Creatures Great & Small
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Breathe
Victoria
Professor Branestawm Returns
The Honourable Rebel
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
You, Me and the Apocalypse
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Detectorists
The Kumars
The Lark Ascending
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Game of Thrones
The Painted Veil
Heidi
Extras
Doctor Who
Parkinson
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Victoria & Albert
Victoria & Albert
Murder in Mind
In the Beginning
Parting Shots
The American
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
Parkinson
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Rebecca
Samson and Delilah
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
The Haunting of Helen Walker
The World of Jim Henson
A Good Man in Africa
Running Delilah
Genghis Cohn
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Mother Love
Unexplained Laughter
Black Leather Jacket
The Play on One
A Hazard of Hearts
Snow White
The Worst Witch
Bleak House
Screen Two
King Lear
Witness for the Prosecution
Little Eyolf
Wogan
Evil Under the Sun
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
The Great Muppet Caper
Hedda Gabler
The Marquise
Masterpiece Mystery
The Serpent Son
A Little Night Music
Three Piece Suite
Three Piece Suite
In This House of Brede
Affairs of the Heart
Diana
Theatre of Blood
The Hospital
V.I.P. Schaukel
Julius Caesar
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Assassination Bureau
Minikillers
Shot On Ice
Swiss Movement
The Diadem
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Omnibus
BBC Play of the Month
The Hothouse
Our Man in the Caribbean
Festival
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Avengers
Armchair Theatre
Tony Awards
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The BAFTA Awards