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 Lond ... on 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.
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Organization | Category | Movie |
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The Avengers
as Emma Peel
Episodes: 51
First Aired: Jan 07, 1961
Game of Thrones
as Olenna Tyrell
Episodes: 20
First Aired: Apr 17, 2011
Diana
as Diana Smythe
Episodes: 15
First Aired: Sep 10, 1973
Victoria
as Duchess of Buccleuch
Episodes: 9
First Aired: Aug 28, 2016
Bleak House
as Lady Honoria Dedlock
Episodes: 7
First Aired: Apr 10, 1985
Affairs of the Heart
as Grace Gracedew
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Aug 23, 1983
Detectorists
as Veronica
Episodes: 6
First Aired: Oct 02, 2014
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
as Adela Bradley
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Aug 31, 1998
Mother Love
as Helena Vesey
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Oct 29, 1989
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Golightly
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Dec 01, 1996
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Sep 30, 2015
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
as Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Dec 05, 2014
The Serpent Son
as Clytemnestra
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Mar 07, 1979
Black Narcissus
as Mother Dorothea
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Nov 23, 2020
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as Queen Henrietta Maria
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Nov 16, 2003
Rebecca
as Mrs. Danvers
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 05, 1997
In the Beginning
as Mature Rebeccah
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Nov 12, 2000
Samson and Delilah
as Mara
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Dec 08, 1996
All Creatures Great & Small
as Mrs Pumphrey
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 01, 2020
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Aug 20, 2001
Extras
as Diana Rigg
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 21, 2005
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Christine
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 24, 1951
BBC Play of the Month
as Rita Allmers
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 19, 1965
Doctor Who
as Mrs Gillyflower
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 26, 2005
Murder in Mind
as Jill Craig
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 22, 2001
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 30, 2015
Armchair Theatre
as Anita Fender
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 08, 1956
The Play on One
as Lydia
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 19, 1988
Masterpiece Mystery
as Self
Episodes: 941
First Aired: Feb 05, 1980
Wogan
as Self
Episodes: 3
First Aired: May 04, 1982
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Apr 01, 1956
The Sentimental Agent
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 28, 1963
Three Piece Suite
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 15, 1977
Wogan
as Self - Guest
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 04, 1982
The Kumars
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 15, 2014
Tony Awards
as Self - Co-Host/Presenter
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 01, 1956
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 09, 1971
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 24, 2011
Tony Awards
as Self - Host
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 01, 1956
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 11, 1961
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 01, 1956
Parkinson
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 09, 1998
Omnibus
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 13, 1967
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1962
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