Diana Rigg

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK, 1938-07-20

Died: 2020-09-10

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	The Hothouse	Anita Fender	0
2	1968	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Helena	55
3	1969	Shot On Ice	Self	40
4	1969	Swiss Movement	Self	60
5	1969	The Diadem	Secret Agent	0
6	1969	Minikillers		0
7	1969	The Assassination Bureau	Sonya Winter	64
8	1969	On Her Majesty's Secret Service	Tracy Di Vicenzo	66
9	1970	Julius Caesar	Portia	57
10	1971	The Hospital	Barbara Drummond	66
11	1973	Theatre of Blood	Edwina Lionheart	67
12	1975	In This House of Brede	Dame Philippa	60
13	1977	Three Piece Suite	Various Roles	0
14	1977	A Little Night Music	Charlotte Mittelheim	63
15	1980	The Marquise	The Marquise Eloise	0
16	1981	Hedda Gabler	Hedda Gabler	70
17	1981	The Great Muppet Caper	Lady Holiday	68
18	1982	The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'	Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall	85
19	1982	Evil Under the Sun	Arlena Stuart Marshall	69
20	1982	Little Eyolf	Rita Allmers	60
21	1982	Witness for the Prosecution	Christine Vole	60
22	1983	King Lear	Regan	65
23	1986	The Worst Witch	Constance Hardbroom	59
24	1987	Snow White	Evil Queen	66
25	1987	A Hazard of Hearts	Lady Harriet Vulcan	81
26	1989	Black Leather Jacket	Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)	0
27	1989	Unexplained Laughter	Lydia	0
28	1992	Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris	Mme. Colbert	78
29	1993	Genghis Cohn	Baroness Frieda von Stangel	45
30	1994	Running Delilah	Judith	59
31	1994	A Good Man in Africa	Chloe Fanshawe	52
32	1994	The World of Jim Henson	Lady Holiday (archive footage)	73
33	1995	The Haunting of Helen Walker	Mrs. Grose	43
34	1996	The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders	Mrs. Golightly	63
35	1996	Samson and Delilah	Mara	65
36	1997	Danielle Steel's Zoya	Evgenia	51
37	1998	The American	Madame de Bellegarde	58
38	1999	Parting Shots	Lisa	61
39	2001	Victoria & Albert	Baroness Lehzen	76
40	2002	Bond Girls Are Forever	Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage)	58
41	2002	Best Ever Bond	Tracy Vincenzo (archive footage) (uncredited)	50
42	2003	Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There	Self	70
43	2005	Heidi	Grandmamma	75
44	2006	The Painted Veil	Mother Superior	72
45	2015	Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC	Self (archive material)	50
46	2015	The Honourable Rebel	Narrator	0
47	2015	Professor Branestawm Returns	Lady Pagwell	70
48	2017	Breathe	Lady Neville	74
49	2017	A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong	Aunt Diana	75
50	2020	The Snail and the Whale	Narrator (voice)	64
51	2021	Last Night in Soho	Ms. Collins	73

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Christine	87
2	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Co-Host/Presenter	46
3	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Host	46
4	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	46
5	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Winner	46
6	1956	Armchair Theatre	Anita Fender	58
7	1961	The Avengers	Emma Peel	77
8	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
9	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
10	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	56
11	1963	The Sentimental Agent		60
12	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Rita Allmers	50
13	1967	Omnibus	Self	75
14	1971	V.I.P. Schaukel	Self	60
15	1973	Diana	Diana Smythe	50
16	1977	Three Piece Suite		0
17	1979	The Serpent Son	Clytemnestra	90
18	1980	Masterpiece Mystery	Self	50
19	1982	Wogan	Self - Guest	45
20	1982	Wogan	Self	45
21	1983	Affairs of the Heart	Grace Gracedew	60
22	1985	Bleak House	Lady Honoria Dedlock	60
23	1988	The Play on One	Lydia	60
24	1989	Mother Love	Helena Vesey	63
25	1996	The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders	Mrs. Golightly	90
26	1996	Samson and Delilah	Mara	0
27	1997	Rebecca	Mrs. Danvers	59
28	1998	Parkinson	Self	0
29	1998	The Mrs Bradley Mysteries	Adela Bradley	69
30	2000	In the Beginning	Mature Rebeccah	60
31	2001	Murder in Mind	Jill Craig	84
32	2001	Victoria & Albert	Baroness Lehzen	60
33	2003	Charles II: The Power and The Passion	Queen Henrietta Maria	64
34	2005	Doctor Who	Mrs Gillyflower	75
35	2005	Extras	Diana Rigg	78
36	2011	Game of Thrones	Olenna Tyrell	85
37	2011	Celebrity Antiques Road Trip	Self - Participant	50
38	2014	The Kumars	Self	50
39	2014	Detectorists	Veronica	81
40	2014	Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero	Mayor Pink Panda (voice)	69
41	2015	You, Me and the Apocalypse	Sutton	69
42	2015	You, Me and the Apocalypse	Sutton (voice)	69
43	2016	Victoria	Duchess of Buccleuch	73
44	2020	All Creatures Great & Small	Mrs Pumphrey	82
45	2020	Black Narcissus	Mother Dorothea	67