
Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (July 20, 1938 – September 10, 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.
90 acting credits
Acting · 90

Game of Thrones
2011

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962

Doctor Who
2005

The Avengers
1961

The Mike Douglas Show
1961

Tony Awards
1956

Wogan
1982

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Omnibus
1967

All Creatures Great & Small
2020

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011

Victoria
2016

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2014

Masterpiece Mystery
1980

Extras
2005

Parkinson
1998
Festival
1963

Murder in Mind
2001
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971

The Play on One
1988

The BAFTA Awards
1949

Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969

Detectorists
2014

Last Night in Soho
2021

You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951

The Painted Veil
2006

Bleak House
1985

In the Beginning
2000

Black Narcissus
2020

Breathe
2017

Rebecca
1997
The Kumars
2014

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996

Samson and Delilah
1996

Armchair Theatre
1956

Evil Under the Sun
1982

Julius Caesar
1970

Victoria & Albert
2001

The Great Muppet Caper
1981

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Diana
1973

Affairs of the Heart
1983

The Worst Witch
1986

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998

Witness for the Prosecution
1982

The Assassination Bureau
1969

A Hazard of Hearts
1987

Parting Shots
1999

Heidi
2005

The Hospital
1971

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968

The Snail and the Whale
2020

Mother Love
1989

Theatre of Blood
1973

Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996

The World of Jim Henson
1994

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982

A Good Man in Africa
1994

King Lear
1983

The Serpent Son
1979

Snow White
1987

Victoria & Albert
2001

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992

A Little Night Music
1977

The American
1998

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015

Professor Branestawm Returns
2015

Three Piece Suite
1977

In This House of Brede
1975

Genghis Cohn
1993

The Haunting of Helen Walker
1995

Black Leather Jacket
1989

Running Delilah
1994

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017

Unexplained Laughter
1989

Hedda Gabler
1981
The Honourable Rebel
2015

Three Piece Suite
1977

Shot On Ice
1969

The Marquise
1980
The Hothouse
1964

Swiss Movement
1969

Little Eyolf
1982

Our Man in the Caribbean
1964

The Diadem
1969

The Lark Ascending
2012

Minikillers
1969