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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 20, 1938
Died
September 10, 2020
Place of Birth
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- Dame Diana Rigg
- Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
- Дайана Ригг
- دایانا ریگ
Diana Rigg
2.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.3
Ms. Collins
Last Night in Soho
2021
6.6
Mother Dorothea
Black Narcissus
2020
6.5
Narrator (voice)
The Snail and the Whale
2020
8.2
Mrs Pumphrey
All Creatures Great & Small
2020
7.6
Aunt Diana
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017
7.5
Lady Neville
Breathe
2017
7.3
Duchess of Buccleuch
Victoria
2016
7.0
Lady Pagwell
Professor Branestawm Returns
2015
🎬
0.0
Narrator
The Honourable Rebel
2015
5.0
Self (archive material)
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
Credits
Last Night in Soho
as Ms. Collins
2021
7.3
Black Narcissus
as Mother Dorothea
2020
6.6
The Snail and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
2020
6.5
All Creatures Great & Small
as Mrs Pumphrey
2020
8.2
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Aunt Diana
2017
7.6
Breathe
as Lady Neville
2017
7.5
Victoria
as Duchess of Buccleuch
2016
7.3
Professor Branestawm Returns
as Lady Pagwell
2015
7.0
🎬
The Honourable Rebel
as Narrator
2015
0.0
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
2015
5.0
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton
2015
6.8
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton (voice)
2015
6.8
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
as Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
2014
7.2
Detectorists
as Veronica
2014
8.1
🎬
The Kumars
as Self
2014
5.0
The Lark Ascending
as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
2012
0.0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
5.0
Game of Thrones
as Olenna Tyrell
2011
8.5
The Painted Veil
as Mother Superior
2006
7.3
Heidi
as Grandmamma
2005
7.6
Extras
as Diana Rigg
2005
7.8
Doctor Who
as Mrs Gillyflower
2005
7.6
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as Queen Henrietta Maria
2003
6.2
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
7.0
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen
2001
7.6
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen
2001
6.0
Murder in Mind
as Jill Craig
2001
8.4
In the Beginning
as Mature Rebeccah
2000
6.0
Parting Shots
as Lisa
1999
5.4
The American
as Madame de Bellegarde
1998
4.8
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
as Adela Bradley
1998
6.9
Parkinson
as Self
1998
0.0
Danielle Steel's Zoya
as Evgenia
1997
4.8
Rebecca
as Mrs. Danvers
1997
5.8
Samson and Delilah
as Mara
1996
6.0
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Golightly
1996
9.0
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Golightly
1996
6.0
The Haunting of Helen Walker
as Mrs. Grose
1995
4.3
The World of Jim Henson
as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
1994
7.3
A Good Man in Africa
as Chloe Fanshawe
1994
4.9
Running Delilah
as Judith
1994
5.4
Genghis Cohn
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
1993
3.9
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Mme. Colbert
1992
7.2
Mother Love
as Helena Vesey
1989
5.6
Unexplained Laughter
as Lydia
1989
0.0
Black Leather Jacket
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
1989
0.0
The Play on One
as Lydia
1988
6.0
A Hazard of Hearts
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
1987
7.8
Snow White
as Evil Queen
1987
6.7
The Worst Witch
as Constance Hardbroom
1986
6.1
Bleak House
as Lady Honoria Dedlock
1985
6.0
Affairs of the Heart
as Grace Gracedew
1983
6.0
King Lear
as Regan
1983
6.5
Witness for the Prosecution
as Christine Vole
1982
6.3
Little Eyolf
as Rita Allmers
1982
6.0
Wogan
as Self - Guest
1982
4.5
Wogan
as Self
1982
4.5
Evil Under the Sun
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
1982
6.9
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
1982
8.5
The Great Muppet Caper
as Lady Holiday
1981
6.9
Hedda Gabler
as Hedda Gabler
1981
7.0
The Marquise
as The Marquise Eloise
1980
0.0
Masterpiece Mystery
as Self - Host
1980
5.0
The Serpent Son
as Clytemnestra
1979
9.0
A Little Night Music
as Charlotte Mittelheim
1977
6.0
Three Piece Suite
1977
5.0
Three Piece Suite
as Various Roles
1977
0.0
In This House of Brede
as Dame Philippa
1975
4.8
🎬
Diana
as Diana Smythe
1973
5.0
Theatre of Blood
as Edwina Lionheart
1973
6.7
The Hospital
as Barbara Drummond
1971
6.6
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
Julius Caesar
as Portia
1970
5.7
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
1969
6.6
The Assassination Bureau
as Sonya Winter
1969
6.6
Minikillers
1969
0.0
Swiss Movement
as Self
1969
6.0
Shot On Ice
as Self
1969
4.0
The Diadem
as Secret Agent
1969
3.0
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Helena
1968
6.0
Omnibus
as Self
1967
7.2
BBC Play of the Month
as Rita Allmers
1965
5.0
🎬
The Hothouse
as Anita Fender
1964
0.0
Our Man in the Caribbean
as Francy (archive footage)
1964
0.0
🎬
Festival
as Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus
1963
8.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Avengers
as Emma Peel
1961
7.7
Armchair Theatre
as Anita Fender
1956
5.8
Tony Awards
as Self - Co-Host/Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Christine
1951
8.6
The BAFTA Awards
as Self
1949
10.0