Diana Rigg

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

91

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

  • Doctor Who

    Doctor Who

  • The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

  • The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

  • Victoria

    Victoria

  • Masterpiece Mystery

    Masterpiece Mystery

  • Wogan

    Wogan

  • Wogan

    Wogan

  • All Creatures Great & Small

    All Creatures Great & Small

  • The Avengers

    The Avengers

  • Parkinson

    Parkinson

  • BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

  • Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

  • Omnibus

    Omnibus

  • Snow White

    Snow White

  • Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

    Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

  • Last Night in Soho

    Last Night in Soho

  • Extras

    Extras

  • Running Delilah

    Running Delilah

  • Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

    Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

  • King Lear

    King Lear

  • The Assassination Bureau

    The Assassination Bureau

  • The Marquise

    The Marquise

  • Parting Shots

    Parting Shots

  • Heidi

    Heidi

  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service

    On Her Majesty's Secret Service

  • Unexplained Laughter

    Unexplained Laughter

  • The Great Muppet Caper

    The Great Muppet Caper

  • Festival

    Festival

  • Murder in Mind

    Murder in Mind

  • V.I.P. Schaukel

    V.I.P. Schaukel

  • The BAFTA Awards

    The BAFTA Awards

  • Little Eyolf

    Little Eyolf

  • Detectorists

    Detectorists

  • The World of Jim Henson

    The World of Jim Henson

  • In This House of Brede

    In This House of Brede

  • The Hothouse

    The Hothouse

  • Theatre of Blood

    Theatre of Blood

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • You, Me and the Apocalypse

    You, Me and the Apocalypse

  • You, Me and the Apocalypse

    You, Me and the Apocalypse

  • Evil Under the Sun

    Evil Under the Sun

  • Black Narcissus

    Black Narcissus

  • The Painted Veil

    The Painted Veil

  • The Play on One

    The Play on One

  • Breathe

    Breathe

  • In the Beginning

    In the Beginning

  • Bleak House

    Bleak House

  • The Hospital

    The Hospital

  • Rebecca

    Rebecca

  • Charles II: The Power and The Passion

    Charles II: The Power and The Passion

  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

  • Hedda Gabler

    Hedda Gabler

  • The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

    The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

  • Shot On Ice

    Shot On Ice

  • The Kumars

    The Kumars

  • Samson and Delilah

    Samson and Delilah

  • Diana

    Diana

  • Victoria & Albert

    Victoria & Albert

  • Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution

  • A Good Man in Africa

    A Good Man in Africa

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

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

  • A Hazard of Hearts

    A Hazard of Hearts

  • Mother Love

    Mother Love

  • The Snail and the Whale

    The Snail and the Whale

  • Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

    Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

  • The Worst Witch

    The Worst Witch

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

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

  • The Serpent Son

    The Serpent Son

  • The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

    The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

  • Affairs of the Heart

    Affairs of the Heart

  • Armchair Theatre

    Armchair Theatre

  • Danielle Steel's Zoya

    Danielle Steel's Zoya

  • Victoria & Albert

    Victoria & Albert

  • Minikillers

    Minikillers

  • A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

    A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • Genghis Cohn

    Genghis Cohn

  • Three Piece Suite

    Three Piece Suite

  • A Little Night Music

    A Little Night Music

  • The Haunting of Helen Walker

    The Haunting of Helen Walker

  • The American

    The American

  • Three Piece Suite

    Three Piece Suite

  • Black Leather Jacket

    Black Leather Jacket

  • The Lark Ascending

    The Lark Ascending

  • Our Man in the Caribbean

    Our Man in the Caribbean

  • Professor Branestawm Returns

    Professor Branestawm Returns

  • The Diadem

    The Diadem

  • Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

    Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

  • The Honourable Rebel

    The Honourable Rebel

  • Swiss Movement

    Swiss Movement