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