Diana Rigg

Personal Info

Birthday

July 20, 1938

Day of Death

2020-09-10

(82 years old)

Place of Birth

Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK

Also Known As

Dame Diana Rigg

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg

Дайана Ригг

دایانا ریگ

Diana Rigg

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 in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959.

Known For

Game of Thrones

Doctor Who

The Avengers

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

Victoria

BBC Play of the Month

All Creatures Great & Small

Detectorists

Filmography

2021
Last Night in Soho
as Ms. Collins
2020
The Snail and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
2017
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Aunt Diana
Breathe
as Lady Neville
2015
Professor Branestawm Returns
as Lady Pagwell
The Honourable Rebel
as Narrator
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
2006
The Painted Veil
as Mother Superior
2005
Heidi
as Grandmamma
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2002
Best Ever Bond
as Tracy Vincenzo (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bond Girls Are Forever
as Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage)
2001
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen
1999
Parting Shots
as Lisa
1998
The American
as Madame de Bellegarde
1997
Danielle Steel's Zoya
as Evgenia
1996
Samson and Delilah
as Mara
1995
The Haunting of Helen Walker
as Mrs. Grose
1994
The World of Jim Henson
as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
A Good Man in Africa
as Chloe Fanshawe
Running Delilah
as Judith
1993
Genghis Cohn
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
1992
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Mme. Colbert
1989
Unexplained Laughter
as Lydia
Black Leather Jacket
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
1987
A Hazard of Hearts
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
Snow White
as Evil Queen
1986
The Worst Witch
as Constance Hardbroom
1983
King Lear
as Regan
1982
Witness for the Prosecution
as Christine Vole
Little Eyolf
as Rita Allmers
Evil Under the Sun
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
1981
The Great Muppet Caper
as Lady Holiday
Hedda Gabler
as Hedda Gabler
1980
The Marquise
as The Marquise Eloise
1977
A Little Night Music
as Charlotte Mittelheim
Three Piece Suite
as Various Roles
1975
In This House of Brede
as Dame Philippa
1973
Theatre of Blood
as Edwina Lionheart
1971
The Hospital
as Barbara Drummond
1970
Julius Caesar
as Portia
1969
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
The Assassination Bureau
as Sonya Winter
The Diadem
as Secret Agent
Swiss Movement
as Self
Shot On Ice
as Self
1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Helena
1964
The Hothouse
as Anita Fender
Our Man in the Caribbean
as Francy (archive footage)