Diana Rigg
Birthday
1938/07/20
Day of death
2020/09/10 (82 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also know as
Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Дайана Ригг, دایانا ریگ
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1969) On Her Majesty's Secret Service
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
(1989) Unexplained Laughter
as Lydia
(1982) Evil Under the Sun
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
(1969) Shot On Ice
as Self
(1982) The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
(1986) The Worst Witch
as Constance Hardbroom
(1971) The Hospital
as Barbara Drummond
(1994) A Good Man in Africa
as Chloe Fanshawe
(1973) Theatre of Blood
as Edwina Lionheart
(2006) The Painted Veil
as Mother Superior
(1981) The Great Muppet Caper
as Lady Holiday
(1987) A Hazard of Hearts
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
(1969) The Assassination Bureau
as Sonya Winter
(1977) A Little Night Music
as Charlotte Mittelheim
(1975) In This House of Brede
as Dame Philippa
(1987) Snow White
as Evil Queen
(2003) Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
(1968) A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Helena
(2001) Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen
(1969) Minikillers
as ---
(1994) Running Delilah
as Judith
(1977) Three Piece Suite
as Various Roles
(1993) Genghis Cohn
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
(1982) Little Eyolf
as Rita Allmers
(1981) Hedda Gabler
as Hedda Gabler
(1992) Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Mme. Colbert
(1989) Black Leather Jacket
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
(1964) The Hothouse
as Anita Fender
(1980) The Marquise
as The Marquise Eloise
(1983) King Lear
as Regan
(2015) Professor Branestawm Returns
as Lady Pagwell
(1996) The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Golightly
(2015) Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
(2015) The Honourable Rebel
as Narrator
(1999) Parting Shots
as Lisa
(2017) Breathe
as Lady Neville
(1997) Danielle Steel's Zoya
as Evgenia
(2017) A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Aunt Diana
(1970) Julius Caesar
as Portia
(1998) The American
as Madame de Bellegarde
(1995) The Haunting of Helen Walker
as Mrs. Grose
(2021) Last Night in Soho
as Ms. Collins
(2020) The Snail and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
(1994) The World of Jim Henson
as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
(1969) Swiss Movement
as Self
(2005) Heidi
as Grandmamma
(1969) The Diadem
as Secret Agent
(1964) Our Man in the Caribbean
as Francy (archive footage)
(2012) The Lark Ascending
as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
(1982) Witness for the Prosecution
as Christine Vole
(1983) Affairs of the Heart
as Grace Gracedew
(2005) Extras
as Diana Rigg
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Christine
(1977) Three Piece Suite
as ---
(1998) The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
as Adela Bradley
(1997) Rebecca
as Mrs. Danvers
(1982) Wogan
as Self - Guest
(1989) Mother Love
as Helena Vesey
(1973) Diana
as Diana Smythe
(1996) The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Golightly
(1961) The Avengers
as Emma Peel
(2014) The Kumars
as Self
(2005) Doctor Who
as Mrs Gillyflower
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Co-Host/Presenter
(2011) Game of Thrones
as Olenna Tyrell
(2014) Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
as Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
(1962) The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
(2016) Victoria
as Duchess of Buccleuch
(2001) Murder in Mind
as Jill Craig
(1982) Wogan
as Self
(2015) You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton
(2015) You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton (voice)
(2014) Detectorists
as Veronica
(2000) In the Beginning
as Mature Rebeccah
(1956) Armchair Theatre
as Anita Fender
(1971) V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
(1979) The Serpent Son
as Clytemnestra
(2011) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Host
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
(1988) The Play on One
as Lydia
(1996) Samson and Delilah
as Mara
(1980) Masterpiece Mystery
as Self - Host
(2020) Black Narcissus
as Mother Dorothea
(1961) The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
(2020) All Creatures Great & Small
as Mrs Pumphrey
(1956) Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
(2001) Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen
(1998) Parkinson
as Self
(1967) Omnibus
as Self
(1985) Bleak House
as Lady Honoria Dedlock
(1949) The BAFTA Awards
as Self
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Rita Allmers
(1963) Festival
as Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus
(2003) Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as Queen Henrietta Maria