Diana Rigg

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

95

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

  • Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • Victoria

    Victoria

  • All Creatures Great & Small

    All Creatures Great & Small

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

  • Wogan

    Wogan

  • Wogan

    Wogan

  • The Avengers

    The Avengers

  • BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

  • Omnibus

    Omnibus

  • Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

    Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

  • Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

    Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

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

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

  • Parkinson

    Parkinson

  • Masterpiece Mystery

    Masterpiece Mystery

  • Extras

    Extras

  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service

  • Professor Branestawm Returns

    Professor Branestawm Returns

  • Snow White

    Snow White

  • Swiss Movement

    Swiss Movement

  • Murder in Mind

    Murder in Mind

  • Victoria & Albert

    Victoria & Albert

  • King Lear

    King Lear

  • Detectorists

    Detectorists

  • Last Night in Soho

    Last Night in Soho

  • V.I.P. Schaukel

    V.I.P. Schaukel

  • The Hospital

    The Hospital

  • Festival

    Festival

  • The BAFTA Awards

    The BAFTA Awards

  • Heidi

    Heidi

  • Evil Under the Sun

    Evil Under the Sun

  • The Great Muppet Caper

    The Great Muppet Caper

  • Running Delilah

    Running Delilah

  • Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

  • Unexplained Laughter

    Unexplained Laughter

  • In the Beginning

    In the Beginning

  • Charles II: The Power and The Passion

    Charles II: The Power and The Passion

  • Little Eyolf

    Little Eyolf

  • The Painted Veil

    The Painted Veil

  • The Marquise

    The Marquise

  • You, Me and the Apocalypse

    You, Me and the Apocalypse

  • You, Me and the Apocalypse

    You, Me and the Apocalypse

  • The Hothouse

    The Hothouse

  • Black Narcissus

    Black Narcissus

  • The American

    The American

  • The Snail and the Whale

    The Snail and the Whale

  • Parting Shots

    Parting Shots

  • Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

    Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

  • Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

  • The Assassination Bureau

    The Assassination Bureau

  • The Play on One

    The Play on One

  • Danielle Steel's Zoya

    Danielle Steel's Zoya

  • Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution

  • Breathe

    Breathe

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

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

  • The Haunting of Helen Walker

    The Haunting of Helen Walker

  • A Hazard of Hearts

    A Hazard of Hearts

  • Genghis Cohn

    Genghis Cohn

  • Rebecca

    Rebecca

  • A Good Man in Africa

    A Good Man in Africa

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

    The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

  • Theatre of Blood

    Theatre of Blood

  • A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

    A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

  • Three Piece Suite

    Three Piece Suite

  • Bleak House

    Bleak House

  • The World of Jim Henson

    The World of Jim Henson

  • Samson and Delilah

    Samson and Delilah

  • Victoria & Albert

    Victoria & Albert

  • The Kumars

    The Kumars

  • Our Man in the Caribbean

    Our Man in the Caribbean

  • A Little Night Music

    A Little Night Music

  • Shot On Ice

    Shot On Ice

  • The Worst Witch

    The Worst Witch

  • In This House of Brede

    In This House of Brede

  • Mother Love

    Mother Love

  • Diana

    Diana

  • Three Piece Suite

    Three Piece Suite

  • The Serpent Son

    The Serpent Son

  • Armchair Theatre

    Armchair Theatre

  • Affairs of the Heart

    Affairs of the Heart

  • Hedda Gabler

    Hedda Gabler

  • Black Leather Jacket

    Black Leather Jacket

  • Minikillers

    Minikillers

  • The Lark Ascending

    The Lark Ascending

  • The Honourable Rebel

    The Honourable Rebel

  • The Diadem

    The Diadem