Diana Rigg
Date of birth: 1938-07-20
Place of birth: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Дайана Ригг, دایانا ریگ
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. 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.
Movie Credits
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969-12-18
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where h
Unexplained Laughter
1989-04-25
Lydia is unlucky in love and retreats to the Welsh countryside with her friend Betty. But the beauti
Evil Under the Sun
1982-03-05
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to
Witness for the Prosecution
1982-12-04
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months
Shot On Ice
1969-01-01
A short documentary produced by the Ford Motor Company about the stock car rally on ice sequence in
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982-01-01
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you th
The Worst Witch
1986-10-22
Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do anything righ
The Hospital
1971-12-14
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his perso
A Good Man in Africa
1994-07-14
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man tha
Theatre of Blood
1973-03-16
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
The Painted Veil
2006-12-09
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trap
The Great Muppet Caper
1981-06-26
Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashio
A Hazard of Hearts
1987-12-27
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he r
The Assassination Bureau
1969-03-09
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organizat
A Little Night Music
1977-09-30
Inspired by Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, a tangled web of affairs is weaved around act
In This House of Brede
1975-02-27
Philippa Talbot is a talented London businesswoman who has decided to give up her position and power
Snow White
1987-05-14
A prince, seeking the greatest treasure, stumbles upon seven little men guarding a coffin. They tell
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003-04-03
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about Ame
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968-09-30
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house
Victoria & Albert
2001-08-26
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in
Minikillers
1969-01-03
W Germany/Spain co-feature short in which Diana Rigg capitalising on her role as Mrs Peel in The Ave
Running Delilah
1994-03-22
Top agent Delilah dies in a risky mission against weapons dealer Kasharian, but she's revived with h
Three Piece Suite
1977-01-01
Miniseries comprising short plays featuring Diana Rigg and guests.
Genghis Cohn
1993-11-09
In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall c
Little Eyolf
1982-07-19
Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford a
Hedda Gabler
1981-03-03
Stuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992-12-27
Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own
Black Leather Jacket
1989-01-01
Based upon Mick Farren's book,'The Black Leather Jacket', this documentary explores the history of t
The Hothouse
1964-12-13
Tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delive
The Marquise
1980-09-07
The only period comedy written by Noel Coward. France, 1736. Two distinguished families are celebra
King Lear
1983-04-03
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his
Professor Branestawm Returns
2015-12-24
When Lady Pagwell dies, leaving a legacy to fund local inventing, Professor Branestawm thinks his mo
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996-10-13
After being born in prison, Moll Flanders wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century E
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015-11-08
From the BBC archives, before their talents were recognised by royal decree, the early work and care
The Honourable Rebel
2015-12-04
A docu-drama about the life of the Hon. Elizabeth Montagu, a spy, screenwriter and worker in British
Samson and Delilah
1996-12-08
Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.
Parting Shots
1999-05-14
Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only thr
Breathe
2017-10-13
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a drama
Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997-07-26
A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for her
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017-12-30
The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time deter
Julius Caesar
1970-06-04
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which port
The American
1998-12-26
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to Fra
The Haunting of Helen Walker
1995-12-03
TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and charact
Last Night in Soho
2021-10-21
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she enc
The Snail and the Whale
2020-10-21
A half hour animated film for all the family based on the much-loved book written by Julia Donaldson
The World of Jim Henson
1994-11-23
In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explor
Swiss Movement
1969-01-01
Documentary short about the making of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) in Switzerland with a p
Heidi
2005-08-19
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, wh
The Diadem
1969-01-01
Secret agent Emma has to carry out a special assignment in Germany. Her job is to protect a mysterio
Our Man in the Caribbean
1964-01-01
A compilation of two episodes from two separate but connected series: "The Sentimental Agent" (106,
The Lark Ascending
2012-01-13
Dame Diana Rigg explores the enduring popularity of The Lark Ascending by the English composer Ralph