Diana Rigg

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Acting

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.

Filmography

• Last Night in Soho (2021)
• The Snail and the Whale (2020)
• A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017)
• Breathe (2017)
• Professor Branestawm Returns (2015)
• The Honourable Rebel (2015)
• Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC (2015)
• The Lark Ascending (2012)
• The Painted Veil (2006)
• Heidi (2005)
• Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
• Victoria & Albert (2001)
• Parting Shots (1999)
• The American (1998)
• Danielle Steel's Zoya (1997)
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)
• The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995)
• The World of Jim Henson (1994)
• A Good Man in Africa (1994)
• Running Delilah (1994)
• Genghis Cohn (1993)
• Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992)
• Unexplained Laughter (1989)
• Black Leather Jacket (1989)
• A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
• Snow White (1987)
• The Worst Witch (1986)
• King Lear (1983)
• Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
• Little Eyolf (1982)
• Evil Under the Sun (1982)
• The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' (1982)
• The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
• Hedda Gabler (1981)
• The Marquise (1980)
• A Little Night Music (1977)
• Three Piece Suite (1977)
• In This House of Brede (1975)
• Theatre of Blood (1973)
• The Hospital (1971)
• Julius Caesar (1970)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
• The Assassination Bureau (1969)
• Minikillers (1969)
• Shot On Ice (1969)
• Swiss Movement (1969)
• The Diadem (1969)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
• The Hothouse (1964)
• Our Man in the Caribbean (1964)