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Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg

Birthday: 1938-07-20 | Place of Birth: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Last Night in Soho

as    Ms. Collins

2020
Black Narcissus

as    Mother Dorothea

2020
The Snail and the Whale

as    Narrator (voice)

2017
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

as    Aunt Diana

2017
Breathe

as    Lady Neville

2006
The Painted Veil

as    Mother Superior

2005
Heidi

as    Grandmamma

2003
Charles II: The Power & the Passion

as    Queen Henrietta Maria

1997
Rebecca

as    Mrs. Danvers

1997
Rebecca

as    Mrs. Danvers

1996
Samson and Delilah

as    Mara

1995
The Haunting of Helen Walker

as    Mrs. Grose

1994
Genghis Cohn

as    Baroness Frieda von Stangel

1994
A Good Man in Africa

as    Chloe Fanshawe

1994
Running Delilah

as    Judith

1989
Mother Love

as    Helena Vesey

1987
Snow White

as    Evil Queen

1987
A Hazard of Hearts

as    Lady Harriet Vulcan

1986
The Worst Witch

as    Constance Hardbroom

1984
King Lear

as    Regan

1983
Affairs of the Heart

as    Grace Gracedew

1982
Evil Under the Sun

as    Arlena Stuart Marshall

1982
Witness for the Prosecution

as    Christine Vole

1981
The Great Muppet Caper

as    Lady Holiday

1973
Diana

as    Diana Smythe

1973
Theatre of Blood

as    Edwina Lionheart

1971
The Hospital

as    Barbara Drummond

1971
Julius Caesar

as    Portia

1969
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

as    Tracy Di Vicenzo

1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream

as    Helena