1938-07-20 Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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. 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.
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Last Night in Soho | Ms. Collins | 2021-10-21 |
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The Snail and the Whale | Narrator (voice) | 2020-10-21 |
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Breathe | Lady Neville | 2017-10-13 |
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A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Aunt Diana | 2017-12-30 |
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Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC | Self (archive material) | 2015-11-08 |
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The Honourable Rebel | Narrator | 2015-12-04 |
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Professor Branestawm Returns | Lady Pagwell | 2015-12-24 |
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The Painted Veil | Mother Superior | 2006-12-09 |
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Heidi | Grandmamma | 2005-08-19 |
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003-04-03 |
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Bond Girls Are Forever | Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage) | 2002-11-06 |
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Best Ever Bond | Tracy Vincenzo (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2002-11-22 |
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Victoria & Albert | Baroness Lehzen | 2001-08-26 |
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Parting Shots | Lisa | 1999-05-14 |
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The American | Madame de Bellegarde | 1998-12-26 |
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Danielle Steel's Zoya | Evgenia | 1997-07-26 |
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Samson and Delilah | Mara | 1996-12-08 |
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders | Mrs. Golightly | 1996-10-13 |
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The Haunting of Helen Walker | Mrs. Grose | 1995-12-03 |
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The World of Jim Henson | Lady Holiday (archive footage) | 1994-11-23 |
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Running Delilah | Judith | 1994-03-22 |
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A Good Man in Africa | Chloe Fanshawe | 1994-07-14 |
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Genghis Cohn | Baroness Frieda von Stangel | 1993-11-09 |
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Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris | Mme. Colbert | 1992-12-27 |
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Unexplained Laughter | Lydia | 1989-04-25 |
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Black Leather Jacket | Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage) | 1989-01-01 |
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A Hazard of Hearts | Lady Harriet Vulcan | 1987-12-27 |
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Snow White | Evil Queen | 1987-05-14 |
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The Worst Witch | Constance Hardbroom | 1986-10-22 |
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King Lear | Regan | 1983-04-03 |
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Little Eyolf | Rita Allmers | 1982-07-19 |
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Witness for the Prosecution | Christine Vole | 1982-12-04 |
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Evil Under the Sun | Arlena Stuart Marshall | 1982-03-05 |
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The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' | Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall | 1982-01-01 |
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Hedda Gabler | Hedda Gabler | 1981-03-03 |
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The Great Muppet Caper | Lady Holiday | 1981-06-26 |
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The Marquise | The Marquise Eloise | 1980-09-07 |
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Three Piece Suite | Various Roles | 1977-01-01 |
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A Little Night Music | Charlotte Mittelheim | 1977-09-30 |
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In This House of Brede | Dame Philippa | 1975-02-27 |
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Theatre of Blood | Edwina Lionheart | 1973-03-16 |
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The Hospital | Barbara Drummond | 1971-12-14 |
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Julius Caesar | Portia | 1970-06-04 |
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Der goldene Schlüssel | Secret Agent | 1969-01-01 |
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Swiss Movement | Self | 1969-01-01 |
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Shot On Ice | Self | 1969-01-01 |
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The Assassination Bureau | Sonya Winter | 1969-03-09 |
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Tracy Di Vicenzo | 1969-12-18 |
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Minikillers | 1969-01-03 | |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream | Helena | 1968-09-30 |
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The Hothouse | Anita Fender | 1964-12-13 |
