Diana Rigg
Acting • Born 1938-07-20 – Died 2020-09-10
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana Rigg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
91 credits
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Movie • 1969
Tracy Di Vicenzo
Unexplained Laughter
Movie • 1989
Lydia
Evil Under the Sun
Movie • 1982
Arlena Stuart Marshall
Shot On Ice
Movie • 1969
Self
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Movie • 1982
Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
The Worst Witch
Movie • 1986
Constance Hardbroom
The Hospital
Movie • 1971
Barbara Drummond
A Good Man in Africa
Movie • 1994
Chloe Fanshawe
Theatre of Blood
Movie • 1973
Edwina Lionheart
The Painted Veil
Movie • 2006
Mother Superior
The Great Muppet Caper
Movie • 1981
Lady Holiday
A Hazard of Hearts
Movie • 1987
Lady Harriet Vulcan
The Assassination Bureau
Movie • 1969
Sonya Winter
A Little Night Music
Movie • 1977
Charlotte Mittelheim
In This House of Brede
Movie • 1975
Dame Philippa
Snow White
Movie • 1987
Evil Queen
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Movie • 2003
Self
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie • 1968
Helena
Victoria & Albert
Movie • 2001
Baroness Lehzen
Minikillers
Movie • 1969
Running Delilah
Movie • 1994
Judith
Three Piece Suite
Movie • 1977
Various Roles
Genghis Cohn
Movie • 1993
Baroness Frieda von Stangel
Little Eyolf
Movie • 1982
Rita Allmers
Hedda Gabler
Movie • 1981
Hedda Gabler
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Movie • 1992
Mme. Colbert
Black Leather Jacket
Movie • 1989
Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
The Hothouse
Movie • 1964
Anita Fender
The Marquise
Movie • 1980
The Marquise Eloise
King Lear
Movie • 1983
Regan
Professor Branestawm Returns
Movie • 2015
Lady Pagwell
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Movie • 1996
Mrs. Golightly
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Movie • 2015
Self (archive material)
The Honourable Rebel
Movie • 2015
Narrator
Parting Shots
Movie • 1999
Lisa
Breathe
Movie • 2017
Lady Neville
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Movie • 1997
Evgenia
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Movie • 2017
Aunt Diana
Julius Caesar
Movie • 1970
Portia
The American
Movie • 1998
Madame de Bellegarde
The Haunting of Helen Walker
Movie • 1995
Mrs. Grose
Last Night in Soho
Movie • 2021
Ms. Collins
The Snail and the Whale
Movie • 2020
Narrator (voice)
The World of Jim Henson
Movie • 1994
Lady Holiday (archive footage)
Swiss Movement
Movie • 1969
Self
Heidi
Movie • 2005
Grandmamma
The Diadem
Movie • 1969
Secret Agent
Our Man in the Caribbean
Movie • 1964
Francy (archive footage)
The Lark Ascending
Movie • 2012
Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
Witness for the Prosecution
Movie • 1982
Christine Vole
Affairs of the Heart
TV • 1983
Grace Gracedew
Extras
TV • 2005
Diana Rigg
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Christine
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
TV • 1998
Adela Bradley
Three Piece Suite
TV • 1977
Rebecca
TV • 1997
Mrs. Danvers
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self - Guest
Mother Love
TV • 1989
Helena Vesey
Diana
TV • 1973
Diana Smythe
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
TV • 1996
Mrs. Golightly
The Avengers
TV • 1961
Emma Peel
The Kumars
TV • 2014
Self
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Mrs Gillyflower
Game of Thrones
TV • 2011
Olenna Tyrell
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
TV • 2014
Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Victoria
TV • 2016
Duchess of Buccleuch
Murder in Mind
TV • 2001
Jill Craig
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
You, Me and the Apocalypse
TV • 2015
Sutton
You, Me and the Apocalypse
TV • 2015
Sutton (voice)
Detectorists
TV • 2014
Veronica
In the Beginning
TV • 2000
Mature Rebeccah
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Anita Fender
V.I.P. Schaukel
TV • 1971
Self
The Serpent Son
TV • 1979
Clytemnestra
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV • 2011
Self - Participant
The Play on One
TV • 1988
Lydia
Samson and Delilah
TV • 1996
Mara
Masterpiece Mystery
TV • 1980
Self - Host
Black Narcissus
TV • 2020
Mother Dorothea
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
All Creatures Great & Small
TV • 2020
Mrs Pumphrey
Victoria & Albert
TV • 2001
Baroness Lehzen
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
Omnibus
TV • 1967
Self
Bleak House
TV • 1985
Lady Honoria Dedlock
The BAFTA Awards
TV • 1949
Self
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Rita Allmers
Festival
TV • 1963
Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
TV • 2003
Queen Henrietta Maria