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.
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Diana Rigg Biography / Wiki
| Name | Diana Rigg |
| Also Know | Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1938-07-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 82 |
| Deathday | 2020-09-10 |
Diana Rigg Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Witness for the Prosecution | Christine Vole | 1982-12-04 | Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the prac… |
| A Hazard of Hearts | Lady Harriet Vulcan | 1987-12-27 | When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: … |
| Snow White | Evil Queen | 1987-05-14 | A prince, seeking the greatest treasure, stumbles upon seven little men guarding a coffin. They tell him the story of Snow White, a beautiful princess… |
| In This House of Brede | Dame Philippa | 1975-02-27 | A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun…. |
| Minikillers | 1969-01-03 | W Germany/Spain co-feature short in which Diana Rigg capitalising on her role as Mrs Peel in The Avengers comes into contact with deadly toy dolls… | |
| Three Piece Suite | 1977-01-01 | Miniseries comprising short plays featuring Diana Rigg and guests…. | |
| Hedda Gabler | Hedda Gabler | 1981-03-03 | Stuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can’t provide. Then a former fl… |
| The Hothouse | Anita Fender | 1964-12-13 | Tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delivery boy in his teens – is now over forty and obsess… |
| The Honourable Rebel | Narrator | 2015-12-04 | A docu-drama about the life of the Hon. Elizabeth Montagu, a spy, screenwriter and worker in British cinema for Alexander Korda…. |
| The Diadem | Geheimagentin | 1969-01-01 | … |
| Unexplained Laughter | Lydia | 1989-04-25 | British Drama Based On a novel… |
| On Her Majesty’s Secret Service | Tracy Di Vicenzo | 1969-12-12 | After romancing Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo and acquiring valuable information from her crime boss father Marc-Ange Draco, James Bond tracks his arch-n… |
| The Worst Witch | Constance Hardbroom | 1986-10-31 | Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can’t seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The… |
| The Hospital | Barbara Drummond | 1971-12-14 | A suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital…. |
| Theatre of Blood | Edwina Lionheart | 1973-03-16 | A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition…. |
| The Assassination Bureau | Sonya Winter | 1969-03-09 | The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau … |
| A Little Night Music | Charlotte Mittelheim | 1977-12-01 | Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she’s been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marria… |
| Little Eyolf | Rita Allmers | 1982-07-19 | Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on “responsibility,” a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and beau… |
| Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris | Mme. Colbert | 1992-12-27 | Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950’s, sees a Dior dress and decides that she’s going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but w… |
| A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Aunt Diana | 2017-12-30 | The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a … |
| The American | Madame de Bellegarde | 1998-12-26 | After the horror of the Civil War, ‘ignorant’ Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won’t get … |
| Swiss Movement | Self | 1969-01-01 | Documentary short about the making of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) in Switzerland with a particular focus on the principal actors and the Pi… |
| Mischief at Christmas: Peter Pan Goes Wrong & A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong | Aunt Diana/Narrator | 2017-12-30 | Peter Pan Goes Wrong: The Olivier Award-winning Mischief Theatre brings Peter Pan Goes Wrong to the small screen. As part of a commitment to communit… |
| Shot On Ice | Self | 1969-01-01 | A short documentary produced by the Ford Motor Company about the stock car rally on ice sequence in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)…. |
| The Avengers: The Cybernauts Trilogy | Emma Peel | CYBERNAUT… the most efficient of killers, the brainchild of electronics genius Clement Armstrong (Michael Gough) and defeated (so it seemed at the t… | |
| The Making of Agatha Christie’s ‘Evil Under the Sun’ | Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall | 1982-01-01 | Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie’s “Evil Under The Sun” walk you through the making of the film…. |
| The Snail and the Whale | Narrator (voice) | 2020-10-21 | A half hour animated film for all the family based on the much-loved book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The Snail and… |
| A Good Man in Africa | Chloe Fanshawe | 1994-07-14 | Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish A… |
| The Painted Veil | Mother Superior | 2006-01-01 | A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithfu… |
| Victoria & Albert | Baroness Lehzen | 2001-08-26 | The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV’s death and 18-… |
| Genghis Cohn | Baroness Frieda von Stangel | 1994-03-02 | In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is co… |
| Evil Under the Sun | Arlena Stuart Marshall | 1982-03-05 | Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. … |
| Running Delilah | Judith | 1994-03-22 | Top agent Delilah dies in a risky mission against weapon dealer Kercharian. But she’s revived with high-tech medicine and artificial body parts. As in… |
| Samson and Delilah | Mara | 1996-12-08 | Mara and Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living under the harsh and unjust rule of the Philistines. One day, a mysterious stranger … |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Helena | 1968-09-30 | Peter Hall’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Com… |
| Professor Branestawm Returns | Lady Pagwell | 2015-12-24 | When Lady Pagwell dies, leaving a legacy to fund local inventing, Professor Branestawm thinks his money troubles are over. But scheming councillor Hag… |
| King Lear | Regan | 1983-04-03 | An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one…. |
| Parting Shots | Lisa | 1999-05-14 | Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is told that he has only three months to live due to him getting cancer. After thinking things over he decides… |
| The Great Muppet Caper | Lady Holiday | 1981-06-26 | Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is sto… |
| Breathe | Lady Neville | 2017-10-13 | Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed…. |
| The Haunting of Helen Walker | Mrs. Grose | 1995-12-03 | TV remake of the Henry James’ classic tale “Turn of the Screw”, with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children h… |
| Danielle Steel’s Zoya | Evgenia | 1995-09-17 | A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America…. |
| Julius Caesar | Portia | 1970-06-04 | All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ide… |
| Last Night in Soho | Ms. Collins | 2021-10-21 | A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1… |
| Heidi | Grandmamma | 2005-08-19 | Swiss girl Adelheid ‘Heidi’ is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charg… |
| The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders | Mrs. Golightly | 1996-10-13 | In her filthy cell in Newgate prison Moll Flanders, dubbed ‘the wickedest woman in England’ tells her story. Born in the gaol, after her mother is tra… |
| Bond Girls Are Forever | Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage) | 2002-11-06 | Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former “Bond Girls” as interviewees (among them Dr. No’s Ur… |
| The World of Jim Henson | Lady Holiday (archive footage) | 1994-11-23 | Episode of Great Performances about Jim Henson… |
| Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There | Self | 2003-01-01 | Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America’s most celebrated indigenous art form. Award… |
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