Diana Rigg

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

96

Gender

Female

Birthday

1938-07-20

Day of death

2020-09-10 (82 years old)

Place of Birth

Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana Rigg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

  • Game of Thrones

    Game of Thrones

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Wogan

    Wogan

  • Wogan

    Wogan

  • The Avengers

    The Avengers

  • Masterpiece Mystery

    Masterpiece Mystery

  • All Creatures Great & Small

    All Creatures Great & Small

  • BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

  • Parkinson

    Parkinson

  • Victoria

    Victoria

  • Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

    Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

  • Omnibus

    Omnibus

  • Extras

    Extras

  • Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

    Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

  • Murder in Mind

    Murder in Mind

  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service

  • Festival

    Festival

  • V.I.P. Schaukel

    V.I.P. Schaukel

  • The Painted Veil

    The Painted Veil

  • The Snail and the Whale

    The Snail and the Whale

  • Last Night in Soho

    Last Night in Soho

  • Samson and Delilah

    Samson and Delilah

  • The BAFTA Awards

    The BAFTA Awards

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

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

  • Snow White

    Snow White

  • Detectorists

    Detectorists

  • The Assassination Bureau

    The Assassination Bureau

  • The Play on One

    The Play on One

  • Charles II: The Power and The Passion

    Charles II: The Power and The Passion

  • The Great Muppet Caper

    The Great Muppet Caper

  • Swiss Movement

    Swiss Movement

  • Running Delilah

    Running Delilah

  • You, Me and the Apocalypse

    You, Me and the Apocalypse

  • You, Me and the Apocalypse

    You, Me and the Apocalypse

  • Breathe

    Breathe

  • Evil Under the Sun

    Evil Under the Sun

  • The Hospital

    The Hospital

  • The Marquise

    The Marquise

  • King Lear

    King Lear

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • Bleak House

    Bleak House

  • Little Eyolf

    Little Eyolf

  • Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

  • Our Man in the Caribbean

    Our Man in the Caribbean

  • Black Narcissus

    Black Narcissus

  • Theatre of Blood

    Theatre of Blood

  • Parting Shots

    Parting Shots

  • Danielle Steel's Zoya

    Danielle Steel's Zoya

  • Victoria & Albert

    Victoria & Albert

  • The Haunting of Helen Walker

    The Haunting of Helen Walker

  • Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

  • Heidi

    Heidi

  • Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution

  • Rebecca

    Rebecca

  • In the Beginning

    In the Beginning

  • A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

    A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • The American

    The American

  • A Hazard of Hearts

    A Hazard of Hearts

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

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

  • The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

    The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

  • A Good Man in Africa

    A Good Man in Africa

  • The Kumars

    The Kumars

  • Professor Branestawm Returns

    Professor Branestawm Returns

  • Unexplained Laughter

    Unexplained Laughter

  • The World of Jim Henson

    The World of Jim Henson

  • Diana

    Diana

  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

  • Genghis Cohn

    Genghis Cohn

  • Three Piece Suite

    Three Piece Suite

  • Samson and Delilah

    Samson and Delilah

  • The Worst Witch

    The Worst Witch

  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

  • Affairs of the Heart

    Affairs of the Heart

  • Mother Love

    Mother Love

  • Shot On Ice

    Shot On Ice

  • Victoria & Albert

    Victoria & Albert

  • The Serpent Son

    The Serpent Son

  • Three Piece Suite

    Three Piece Suite

  • Black Leather Jacket

    Black Leather Jacket

  • The Hothouse

    The Hothouse

  • Armchair Theatre

    Armchair Theatre

  • In This House of Brede

    In This House of Brede

  • Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

    Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

  • A Little Night Music

    A Little Night Music

  • The Lark Ascending

    The Lark Ascending

  • Minikillers

    Minikillers

  • Hedda Gabler

    Hedda Gabler

  • The Diadem

    The Diadem

  • The Honourable Rebel

    The Honourable Rebel