Diana Rigg
Born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK — Jul 20 1938• Died Sep 10 2020
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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 Shakespe…
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Game of Thrones
Olenna Tyrell
Doctor Who
Mrs Gillyflower
Masterpiece Mystery
Self - Host
The Avengers
Emma Peel
BBC Play of the Month
Rita Allmers
Omnibus
Self
All Creatures Great & Small
Mrs Pumphrey
Victoria
Duchess of Buccleuch
Murder in Mind
Jill Craig
Extras
Diana Rigg
Festival
Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus
The BAFTA Awards
Self
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
The Play on One
Lydia
You, Me and the Apocalypse
Sutton
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Tracy Di Vicenzo
Last Night in Soho
Ms. Collins
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Queen Henrietta Maria
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Christine
Detectorists
Veronica
Black Narcissus
Mother Dorothea
Bleak House
Lady Honoria Dedlock
In the Beginning
Mature Rebeccah
Evil Under the Sun
Arlena Stuart Marshall
Breathe
Lady Neville
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mrs. Golightly
The Great Muppet Caper
Lady Holiday
Rebecca
Mrs. Danvers
The Painted Veil
Mother Superior
Three Piece Suite
Various Roles
Parting Shots
Lisa
Armchair Theatre
Anita Fender
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
Adela Bradley
Affairs of the Heart
Grace Gracedew
Snow White
Evil Queen
The Hospital
Barbara Drummond
Theatre of Blood
Edwina Lionheart
Diana
Diana Smythe
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
Witness for the Prosecution
Christine Vole
Mother Love
Helena Vesey
Samson and Delilah
Mara
The World of Jim Henson
Lady Holiday (archive footage)
The Serpent Son
Clytemnestra
Heidi
Grandmamma
The Assassination Bureau
Sonya Winter
The Snail and the Whale
Narrator (voice)
Victoria & Albert
Baroness Lehzen
Professor Branestawm Returns
Lady Pagwell
A Good Man in Africa
Chloe Fanshawe
The Worst Witch
Constance Hardbroom
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Mme. Colbert
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
The American
Madame de Bellegarde
King Lear
Regan
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Evgenia
A Hazard of Hearts
Lady Harriet Vulcan
Running Delilah
Judith
The Haunting of Helen Walker
Mrs. Grose
Victoria & Albert
Baroness Lehzen
Unexplained Laughter
Lydia
Little Eyolf
Rita Allmers
Julius Caesar
Portia
Genghis Cohn
Baroness Frieda von Stangel
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Aunt Diana
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mrs. Golightly
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive material)
In This House of Brede
Dame Philippa
A Little Night Music
Charlotte Mittelheim
Three Piece Suite
Shot On Ice
Self
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
Black Leather Jacket
Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
The Marquise
The Marquise Eloise
Our Man in the Caribbean
Francy (archive footage)
The Diadem
Secret Agent
The Honourable Rebel
Narrator
The Hothouse
Anita Fender
Minikillers
Woman tourist
Swiss Movement
Self
The Lark Ascending
Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
Tony Awards
Self - Host