Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1938-07-20
Day of Death
2020-09-10
Place of Birth
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Diana Rigg
Biography
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.
Filmography (50)
Last Night in Soho
2021
The Snail and the Whale
2020
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017
Breathe
2017
Professor Branestawm Returns
2015The Honourable Rebel
2015
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
The Lark Ascending
2012
The Painted Veil
2006
Heidi
2005
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Victoria & Albert
2001
Parting Shots
1999
The American
1998
