Diana Rigg

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.

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Filmography (91 Appearances)

Last Night in Soho

2021

Black Narcissus

2020

The Snail and the Whale

2020

All Creatures Great & Small

2020

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

2017

Breathe

2017

Victoria

2016

Professor Branestawm Returns

2015

The Honourable Rebel

2015

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

2015

You, Me and the Apocalypse

2015

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

2014

Detectorists

2014

The Kumars

2014

The Lark Ascending

2012

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

Game of Thrones

2011

The Painted Veil

2006

Heidi

2005

Extras

2005

Doctor Who

2005

Charles II: The Power and The Passion

2003

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

2003

Victoria & Albert

2001

Victoria & Albert

2001

Murder in Mind

2001

In the Beginning

2000

Parting Shots

1999

The American

1998

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

1998

Parkinson

1998

Danielle Steel's Zoya

1997

Rebecca

1997

Samson and Delilah

1996

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

1996

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

1996

The Haunting of Helen Walker

1995

The World of Jim Henson

1994

A Good Man in Africa

1994

Running Delilah

1994

Genghis Cohn

1993

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

1992

Mother Love

1989

Unexplained Laughter

1989

Black Leather Jacket

1989

The Play on One

1988

A Hazard of Hearts

1987

Snow White

1987

The Worst Witch

1986

Bleak House

1985

Screen Two

1985

King Lear

1983

Witness for the Prosecution

1982

Little Eyolf

1982

Wogan

1982

Evil Under the Sun

1982

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

1982

The Great Muppet Caper

1981

Hedda Gabler

1981

The Marquise

1980

Masterpiece Mystery

1980

The Serpent Son

1979

A Little Night Music

1977

Three Piece Suite

1977

Three Piece Suite

1977

In This House of Brede

1975

Affairs of the Heart

1974

Diana

1973

Theatre of Blood

1973

The Hospital

1971

V.I.P. Schaukel

1971

Julius Caesar

1970

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969

The Assassination Bureau

1969

Minikillers

1969

Swiss Movement

1969

The Diadem

1969

Shot On Ice

1969

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1968

Omnibus

1967

BBC Play of the Month

1965

The Hothouse

1964

Our Man in the Caribbean

1964 Debut

Festival

1963

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

The Avengers

1961

Armchair Theatre

1956

Tony Awards

1956

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

The BAFTA Awards

1949
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