
Diana Rigg
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.
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Acting (49 movies)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969

Unexplained Laughter
1989

Evil Under the Sun
1982

Shot On Ice
1969

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982

The Worst Witch
1986

The Hospital
1971

A Good Man in Africa
1994

Theatre of Blood
1973

The Painted Veil
2006

The Great Muppet Caper
1981

A Hazard of Hearts
1987

The Assassination Bureau
1969

A Little Night Music
1977

In This House of Brede
1975

Snow White
1987

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968

Victoria & Albert
2001

Minikillers
1969

Running Delilah
1994

Three Piece Suite
1977

Genghis Cohn
1993

Little Eyolf
1982

Hedda Gabler
1981

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992

Black Leather Jacket
1989

The Marquise
1980

King Lear
1983

Professor Branestawm Returns
2015

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015

Samson and Delilah
1996

Parting Shots
1999

Breathe
2017

Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017

Julius Caesar
1970

The American
1998

The Haunting of Helen Walker
1995

Last Night in Soho
2021

The Snail and the Whale
2020

The World of Jim Henson
1994

Swiss Movement
1969

Heidi
2005

The Diadem
1969

Our Man in the Caribbean
1964

The Lark Ascending
2012

Witness for the Prosecution
1982
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