Diana Rigg

Actor Jul 20 (died age 82) Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK 1949–2021 (72 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

Last Night in Soho

Ms. Collins

Film

The Painted Veil

Mother Superior

Film

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Tracy Di Vicenzo

Film

Breathe

Lady Neville

Film

Evil Under the Sun

Arlena Stuart Marshall

Film

Victoria

Duchess of Buccleuch

Film

The Great Muppet Caper

Lady Holiday

Film

The Avengers

Emma Peel

Filmography

Acting (94)

Movies (50)

Last Night in Soho

2021

as Ms. Collins

7.3

The Snail and the Whale

as Narrator (voice)

Breathe

as Lady Neville

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

2017

as Aunt Diana

7.6

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

2015

as Self (archive material)

5.0

Professor Branestawm Returns

2015

as Lady Pagwell

7.0

The Honourable Rebel

2015

as Narrator

The Lark Ascending

2012

as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)

The Painted Veil

as Mother Superior

Heidi

as Grandmamma

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

as Self

Victoria & Albert

as Baroness Lehzen

Parting Shots

as Lisa

The American

as Madame de Bellegarde

4.8

Danielle Steel's Zoya

1997

as Evgenia

4.8

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

1996

as Mrs. Golightly

6.0

The Haunting of Helen Walker

as Mrs. Grose

Running Delilah

as Judith

The World of Jim Henson

1994

as Lady Holiday (archive footage)

A Good Man in Africa

as Chloe Fanshawe

Genghis Cohn

as Baroness Frieda von Stangel

3.9

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

1992

as Mme. Colbert

7.2

Black Leather Jacket

1989

as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)

Unexplained Laughter

1989

as Lydia

Snow White

1987

as Evil Queen

6.6

A Hazard of Hearts

1987

as Lady Harriet Vulcan

7.8

The Worst Witch

1986

as Constance Hardbroom

King Lear

as Regan

Evil Under the Sun

as Arlena Stuart Marshall

6.9

Little Eyolf

1982

as Rita Allmers

6.0

Witness for the Prosecution

1982

as Christine Vole

6.3

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

1982

as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall

8.5

The Great Muppet Caper

as Lady Holiday

Hedda Gabler

as Hedda Gabler

The Marquise

as The Marquise Eloise

Three Piece Suite

1977

as Various Roles

A Little Night Music

1977

as Charlotte Mittelheim

6.0

In This House of Brede

as Dame Philippa

Theatre of Blood

as Edwina Lionheart

The Hospital

as Barbara Drummond

Julius Caesar

as Portia

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969

as Tracy Di Vicenzo

6.6

The Assassination Bureau

as Sonya Winter

Shot On Ice

as Self

The Diadem

as Secret Agent

Minikillers

Swiss Movement

as Self

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1968

as Helena

6.0

The Hothouse

1964

as Anita Fender

Our Man in the Caribbean

1964

as Francy (archive footage)

Television (44)

All Creatures Great & Small

as Mrs Pumphrey

Black Narcissus

as Mother Dorothea

Victoria

as Duchess of Buccleuch

7.3

Victoria

2016

as Duchess of Buccleuch

7.3

You, Me and the Apocalypse

2015

as Sutton

6.7

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

2014

as Mayor Pink Panda (voice)

Detectorists

as Veronica

The Kumars

as Self

Game of Thrones

as Olenna Tyrell

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

Doctor Who

as Mrs Gillyflower

Extras

as Diana Rigg

Charles II: The Power and The Passion

2003

as Queen Henrietta Maria

Murder in Mind

as Jill Craig

Victoria & Albert

as Baroness Lehzen

In the Beginning

as Mature Rebeccah

Parkinson

as Self

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

as Adela Bradley

Rebecca

as Mrs. Danvers

Samson and Delilah

as Mara

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

as Mrs. Golightly

Mother Love

as Helena Vesey

The Play on One

as Lydia

Bleak House

as Lady Honoria Dedlock

Affairs of the Heart

as Grace Gracedew

Wogan

as Self

Masterpiece Mystery

as Self - Host

The Serpent Son

as Clytemnestra

Three Piece Suite

as Various Roles

Three Piece Suite

Diana

as Diana Smythe

V.I.P. Schaukel

as Self

Omnibus

as Self

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Rita Allmers

5.0

Festival

1963

as Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus

8.0

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.4

The Mike Douglas Show

as Self

The Avengers

as Emma Peel

The Avengers

as Emma Peel

Tony Awards

as Self - Host

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Armchair Theatre

as Anita Fender

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Christine

The BAFTA Awards

as Self