Diana Rigg
Birthday: 1938-07-20 | Place of Birth: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UKDame 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Ms. Collins
as Mother Dorothea
as Narrator (voice)
as Aunt Diana
as Lady Neville
as Mother Superior
as Grandmamma
as Queen Henrietta Maria
as Mrs. Danvers
as Mrs. Danvers
as Mara
as Mrs. Grose
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
as Chloe Fanshawe
as Judith
as Helena Vesey
as Evil Queen
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
as Constance Hardbroom
as Regan
as Grace Gracedew
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
as Christine Vole
as Lady Holiday
as Diana Smythe
as Edwina Lionheart
as Barbara Drummond
as Portia
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
as Helena
