Diana Rigg
Acting
1938-07-20 · Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
Last Night in Soho
2021 · Movie
Black Narcissus
2020 · Series
The Snail and the Whale
2020 · Movie
All Creatures Great & Small
2020 · Series
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017 · Movie
Breathe
2017 · Movie
Victoria
2016 · Series
Professor Branestawm Returns
2015 · Movie
The Honourable Rebel
2015 · Movie
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015 · Movie
You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015 · Series
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2014 · Series
Detectorists
2014 · Series
The Kumars
2014 · Series
The Lark Ascending
2012 · Movie
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Series
Game of Thrones
2011 · Series
The Painted Veil
2006 · Movie
Heidi
2005 · Movie
Extras
2005 · Series
Doctor Who
2005 · Series
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003 · Series
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · Movie
Victoria & Albert
2001 · Movie
Victoria & Albert
2001 · Series
Murder in Mind
2001 · Series
In the Beginning
2000 · Series
Parting Shots
1999 · Movie
The American
1998 · Movie
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998 · Series
Parkinson
1998 · Series
Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997 · Movie
Rebecca
1997 · Series
Samson and Delilah
1996 · Series
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996 · Series
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996 · Movie
The Haunting of Helen Walker
1995 · Movie
The World of Jim Henson
1994 · Movie
A Good Man in Africa
1994 · Movie
Running Delilah
1994 · Movie
Genghis Cohn
1993 · Movie
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992 · Movie
Mother Love
1989 · Series
Unexplained Laughter
1989 · Movie
Black Leather Jacket
1989 · Movie
The Play on One
1988 · Series
A Hazard of Hearts
1987 · Movie
Snow White
1987 · Movie
The Worst Witch
1986 · Movie
Bleak House
1985 · Series
Screen Two
1985 · Series
King Lear
1983 · Movie
Witness for the Prosecution
1982 · Movie
Little Eyolf
1982 · Movie
Wogan
1982 · Series
Evil Under the Sun
1982 · Movie
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982 · Movie
The Great Muppet Caper
1981 · Movie
Hedda Gabler
1981 · Movie
The Marquise
1980 · Movie
Masterpiece Mystery
1980 · Series
The Serpent Son
1979 · Series
A Little Night Music
1977 · Movie
Three Piece Suite
1977 · Series
Three Piece Suite
1977 · Movie
In This House of Brede
1975 · Movie
Affairs of the Heart
1974 · Series
Diana
1973 · Series
Theatre of Blood
1973 · Movie
The Hospital
1971 · Movie
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971 · Series
Julius Caesar
1970 · Movie
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 · Movie
The Assassination Bureau
1969 · Movie
Minikillers
1969 · Movie
Shot On Ice
1969 · Movie
Swiss Movement
1969 · Movie
The Diadem
1969 · Movie
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968 · Movie
Omnibus
1967 · Series
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
The Hothouse
1964 · Movie
Our Man in the Caribbean
1964 · Movie
Festival
1963 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Series
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Series
The Avengers
1961 · Series
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
The BAFTA Awards
1949 · Series