Diana Rigg
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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.
Known for
Credits
Last Night in Soho (2021)
as Ms. Collins
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
The Painted Veil (2006)
as Mother Superior
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
Breathe (2017)
as Lady Neville
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
as Self
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
as Lady Holiday
The Worst Witch (1986)
as Constance Hardbroom
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
as Sonya Winter
The Snail and the Whale (2020)
as Narrator (voice)
Snow White (1987)
as Evil Queen
The Hospital (1971)
as Barbara Drummond
Julius Caesar (1970)
as Portia
Parting Shots (1999)
as Lisa
The American (1998)
as Madame de Bellegarde
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)
as Mrs. Golightly
Heidi (2005)
as Grandmamma
Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
as Christine Vole
King Lear (1983)
as Regan
Theatre of Blood (1973)
as Edwina Lionheart
A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
A Good Man in Africa (1994)
as Chloe Fanshawe
The Hothouse (1964)
as Anita Fender
Victoria & Albert (2001)
as Baroness Lehzen
Danielle Steel's Zoya (1997)
as Evgenia
The World of Jim Henson (1994)
as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
Little Eyolf (1982)
as Rita Allmers
Minikillers (1969)
as Woman tourist
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
as Helena
Genghis Cohn (1993)
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
Unexplained Laughter (1989)
as Lydia
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992)
as Mme. Colbert
A Little Night Music (1977)
as Charlotte Mittelheim
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017)
as Aunt Diana
Hedda Gabler (1981)
as Hedda Gabler
Running Delilah (1994)
as Judith
In This House of Brede (1975)
as Dame Philippa
Swiss Movement (1969)
as Self
Professor Branestawm Returns (2015)
as Lady Pagwell
The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995)
as Mrs. Grose
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' (1982)
as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
Our Man in the Caribbean (1964)
as Francy (archive footage)
The Marquise (1980)
as The Marquise Eloise
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC (2015)
as Self (archive material)
Shot On Ice (1969)
as Self
The Diadem (1969)
as Secret Agent
Black Leather Jacket (1989)
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
The Lark Ascending (2012)
as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
Three Piece Suite (1977)
as Various Roles
The Honourable Rebel (2015)
as Narrator