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