Diana Rigg

Known for ActingBorn 1938-07-20Died 2020-09-10Doncaster, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Unexplained Laughter

The BAFTA Awards

The Serpent Son

Black Leather Jacket

The Marquise

Minikillers

Game of Thrones

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

All Creatures Great & Small

Murder in Mind

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Detectorists

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

Extras

Hedda Gabler

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

Heidi

A Hazard of Hearts

Doctor Who

Our Man in the Caribbean

Festival

Breathe

Victoria & Albert

Victoria

Last Night in Soho

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

The Avengers

V.I.P. Schaukel

The World of Jim Henson

The Painted Veil

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

Affairs of the Heart

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

Samson and Delilah

Professor Branestawm Returns

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

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

Screen Two

You, Me and the Apocalypse

Omnibus

Black Narcissus

Little Eyolf

The Snail and the Whale

Affairs of the Heart

Diana

The Great Muppet Caper

Evil Under the Sun

Snow White