Diana Rigg
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday20 July 1938
Died10 September 2020 (age 82)
Place of birthDoncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Known credits92
Biography
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 Broa…
Last Night in Soho
2021 · Ms. Collins
Black Narcissus
2020 · Mother Dorothea
The Snail and the Whale
2020 · Narrator (voice)
All Creatures Great & Small
2020 · Mrs Pumphrey
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017 · Aunt Diana
Breathe
2017 · Lady Neville
Victoria
2016 · Duchess of Buccleuch
Professor Branestawm Returns
2015 · Lady Pagwell
The Honourable Rebel
2015 · Narrator
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015 · Self (archive material)
You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015 · Sutton
You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015 · Sutton (voice)
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2014 · Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
Detectorists
2014 · Veronica
The Kumars
2014 · Self
The Lark Ascending
2012 · Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Self - Participant
Game of Thrones
2011 · Olenna Tyrell
The Painted Veil
2006 · Mother Superior
Heidi
2005 · Grandmamma
Extras
2005 · Diana Rigg
Doctor Who
2005 · Mrs Gillyflower
Parkinson
2004 · Self - Guest
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003 · Queen Henrietta Maria
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 · Self
Victoria & Albert
2001 · Baroness Lehzen
Victoria & Albert
2001 · Baroness Lehzen
Murder in Mind
2001 · Jill Craig
In the Beginning
2000 · Mature Rebeccah
Parting Shots
1999 · Lisa
The American
1998 · Madame de Bellegarde
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998 · Adela Bradley
Parkinson
1998 · Self
Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997 · Evgenia
Rebecca
1997 · Mrs. Danvers
Samson and Delilah
1996 · Mara
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996 · Mrs Golightly
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996 · Mrs. Golightly
The Haunting of Helen Walker
1995 · Mrs. Grose
The World of Jim Henson
1994 · Lady Holiday (archive footage)
A Good Man in Africa
1994 · Chloe Fanshawe
Running Delilah
1994 · Judith
Genghis Cohn
1993 · Baroness Frieda von Stangel
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992 · Mme. Colbert
Mother Love
1989 · Helena Vesey
Unexplained Laughter
1989 · Lydia
Black Leather Jacket
1989 · Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
The Play on One
1988 · Lydia
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