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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.
Acted in 69
2020s
- 2021
- 2020
Black Narcissus
Mother Dorothea · 3 episodes
2010s
- 2017
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Aunt Diana
- 2016
- 2015
Professor Branestawm Returns
Lady Pagwell
- 2014
- 2011
2000s
- 2006
- 2005
- 2003
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Queen Henrietta Maria · 2 episodes
- 2001
Victoria & Albert
Baroness Lehzen
Victoria & Albert
Baroness Lehzen · 2 episodes
- 2000
In the Beginning
Mature Rebeccah · 2 episodes
1990s
- 1999
- 1998
The American
Madame de Bellegarde
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
Adela Bradley · 5 episodes
- 1997
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Evgenia
Rebecca
Mrs. Danvers · 2 episodes
- 1996
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mrs. Golightly
- 1995
The Haunting of Helen Walker
Mrs. Grose
- 1994
The World of Jim Henson
Lady Holiday (archive footage)
A Good Man in Africa
Chloe Fanshawe
Running Delilah
Judith
- 1993
Genghis Cohn
Baroness Frieda von Stangel
- 1992
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Mme. Colbert
1980s
- 1989
Mother Love
Helena Vesey · 4 episodes
Unexplained Laughter
Lydia
Black Leather Jacket
Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
- 1988
- 1987
- 1986
- 1985
Bleak House
Lady Honoria Dedlock · 7 episodes
- 1983
King Lear
Regan
- 1982
Little Eyolf
Rita Allmers
- 1981
- 1980
The Marquise
The Marquise Eloise
1970s
- 1979
The Serpent Son
Clytemnestra · 3 episodes
- 1977
A Little Night Music
Charlotte Mittelheim
Three Piece Suite
Various Characters
Three Piece Suite
Various Roles
- 1975
In This House of Brede
Dame Philippa
- 1974
Affairs of the Heart
Grace Gracedew · 1 episode
- 1973
- 1971
- 1970
1960s
- 1969
Minikillers
Woman tourist
The Diadem
Secret Agent
- 1968
- 1965
- 1964
Our Man in the Caribbean
Francy (archive footage)
- 1961
1950s
- 1956
Armchair Theatre
Anita Fender · 1 episode
- 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Christine · 1 episode
Appearances17
2020s
- 2020
2010s
- 2015
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive material)
- 2012
The Lark Ascending
Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
- 2011
2000s
- 2004
- 2003
1990s
- 1998
1980s
- 1982
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
- 1980
1960s
- 1969
Shot On Ice
Self
Swiss Movement
Self
- 1967
- 1962
- 1961
1950s
- 1956
1940s
- 1949
