Diana Rigg
Acting
Born 1938-07-20
Died 2020-09-10
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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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.
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Filmography
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Game of Thrones
Doctor Who
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Avengers
Tony Awards
All Creatures Great & Small
Wogan
BBC Play of the Month
Screen Two
Masterpiece Mystery
Omnibus
Victoria
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Parkinson
Extras
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
The BAFTA Awards
Last Night in Soho
The Play on One
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Festival
V.I.P. Schaukel
Detectorists
Murder in Mind
Breathe
The Painted Veil
You, Me and the Apocalypse
Evil Under the Sun
Black Narcissus
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Affairs of the Heart
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
The Great Muppet Caper
Rebecca
In the Beginning
The Hospital
Bleak House
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
The Snail and the Whale
Diana
The Kumars
Theatre of Blood
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Assassination Bureau
Samson and Delilah
Julius Caesar
Witness for the Prosecution
Snow White
Three Piece Suite
Heidi
The World of Jim Henson
In This House of Brede
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
The Worst Witch
Victoria & Albert
A Good Man in Africa
Parting Shots
Mother Love
Hedda Gabler
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