Diana Rigg
Known for: Acting
Born: July 20, 1938
Died: September 10, 2020
Place of birth: Doncaster, 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.
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Filmography
50 movies · 41 TV shows, newest first
7.3
Last Night in Soho
2021
6.6
Black Narcissus
2020
6.6
The Snail and the Whale
2020
8.2
All Creatures Great & Small
2020
7.7
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017
7.4
Breathe
2017
7.4
Victoria
2016
7.0
Professor Branestawm Returns
2015NR
The Honourable Rebel
2015
5.0
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
6.8
You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015
7.2
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2014
8.1
Detectorists
20145.0
The Kumars
2014
NR
The Lark Ascending
2012
6.0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
8.5
Game of Thrones
2011
7.3
The Painted Veil
2006
7.7
Heidi
2005
7.8
Extras
2005
7.6
Doctor Who
2005
6.3
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003
7.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
7.6
Victoria & Albert
2001
6.0
Victoria & Albert
2001
8.3
Murder in Mind
2001
6.1
In the Beginning
2000
5.5
Parting Shots
1999
5.4
The American
1998
7.3
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998
NR
Parkinson
1998
4.9
Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997
6.0
Rebecca
1997
5.5
Samson and Delilah
1996
8.5
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996
6.2
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996
5.6
The Haunting of Helen Walker
1995
7.4
The World of Jim Henson
1994
4.9
A Good Man in Africa
1994
5.6
Running Delilah
1994
5.1
Genghis Cohn
1993
7.5
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
5.9
Mother Love
1989
10.0
Unexplained Laughter
1989
9.0
Black Leather Jacket
1989
6.0
The Play on One
1988
7.8
A Hazard of Hearts
1987
6.7
Snow White
1987
6.1
The Worst Witch
1986
6.4
Bleak House
1985
7.1
Screen Two
1985
6.7
King Lear
1983
6.6
Witness for the Prosecution
1982
6.7
Little Eyolf
1982
5.3
Wogan
1982
6.9
Evil Under the Sun
1982
8.3
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982
6.9
The Great Muppet Caper
1981
8.0
Hedda Gabler
1981
9.0
The Marquise
1980
6.2
Masterpiece Mystery
1980
9.5
The Serpent Son
1979
6.1
A Little Night Music
1977
5.5
Three Piece Suite
19776.0
Three Piece Suite
1977
5.2
In This House of Brede
1975
7.0
Affairs of the Heart
19747.0
Diana
1973
6.7
Theatre of Blood
1973
6.6
The Hospital
19718.0
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971
5.9
Julius Caesar
1970
6.6
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
6.7
The Assassination Bureau
1969
9.0
Minikillers
1969
4.0
Shot On Ice
1969
6.0
Swiss Movement
1969
3.5
The Diadem
1969
6.3
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
7.2
Omnibus
1967
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
1965NR
The Hothouse
1964
8.0
Our Man in the Caribbean
19648.0
Festival
1963
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
7.8
The Avengers
1961
6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
NR
Tony Awards
1956
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
10.0
The BAFTA Awards
1949