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 ed 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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Filmography
all 102
Movies 57
TV Shows 45
self 23
Voice 3
Narrator 2
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Black Narcissus (2020)
The Snail and the Whale (2020)
All Creatures Great & Small (2020)
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017)
Breathe (2017)
Victoria (2016)
Professor Branestawm Returns (2015)
The Honourable Rebel (2015)
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC (2015)
You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015)
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (2014)
Detectorists (2014)
The Kumars (2014)
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011)
Game of Thrones (2011)
The Painted Veil (2006)
Heidi (2005)
Extras (2005)
Doctor Who (2005)
Charles II: The Power and The ion (2003)
Best Ever Bond (2002)
Bond Girls Are Forever (2002)
Victoria & Albert (2001)
Victoria & Albert (2001)
Murder in Mind (2001)
In the Beginning (2000)
The American (1998)
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (1998)
Heat of the Sun (1998)
Parkinson (1998)
Rebecca (1997)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)
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)
Mother Love (1989)
Black Leather Jacket (1989)
A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
Snow White (1987)
The Worst Witch (1986)
Bleak House (1985)
Affairs of the Heart (1983)
King Lear (1983)
Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
Little Eyolf (1982)
Wogan (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)
The Serpent Son (1979)
A Little Night Music (1977)
Three Piece Suite (1977)
In This House of Brede (1975)
Affairs of the Heart (1974)
Diana (1973)
Theatre of Blood (1973)
The Hospital (1971)
Parkinson (1971)
Julius Caesar (1970)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
The Diadem (1969)
Omnibus (1967)
The Hothouse (1964)
The Avengers (1961)
Armchair Theatre (1956)
Tony Awards (1956)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
King Lear
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Queen of Hearts
The Avengers : A Retrospective
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Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1938-07-20
Deathday
2020-09-10 (82 years old)
Birth Name
Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
Birth Place
Doncaster, United Kingdom
Relationships
Archie Stirling (1982 - 1990), Menachem Gueffen (1973 - 1976)
Children
Rachael Stirling
Father
Louis Rigg
Citizenships
United Kingdom
Residences
Hammersmith, United Kingdom
Also Known As
Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Дайана Ригг, دایانا ریگ
Awards
Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding ing Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
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