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 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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Filmography
all 93
Movies 53
TV Shows 40
self 18
Narrator 4
Voice 2
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Black Narcissus (2020)
The Snail and the Whale (2020)
All Creatures Great & Small (2020)
Morecambe & Wise in America (2018)
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017)
Breathe (2017)
Victoria (2016)
Professor Branestawm Returns (2015)
The Honourable Rebel (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)
Casting on 'Her Majesty's Secret Service' (2006)
Heidi (2005)
Extras (2005)
Doctor Who (2005)
Charles II: The Power and The Passion (2003)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
Best Ever Bond (2002)
Bond Girls Are Forever (2002)
Victoria & Albert (2001)
Victoria & Albert (2001)
Murder in Mind (2001)
In the Beginning (2000)
Parting Shots (1999)
The American (1998)
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (1998)
Heat of the Sun (1998)
Rebecca (1997)
Samson and Delilah (1996)
Samson and Delilah (1996)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)
The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995)
Danielle Steel's Zoya (1995)
The World of Jim Henson (1994)
A Good Man in Africa (1994)
Running Delilah (1994)
Genghis Cohn (1994)
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992)
Mother Love (1989)
Unexplained Laughter (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)
Dalgliesh (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 Serpent Son (1979)
A Little Night Music (1977)
Three Piece Suite (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)
V.I.P. Schaukel (1971)
Julius Caesar (1970)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Nationwide (1969)
The Assassination Bureau (1969)
Minikillers (1969)
The Diadem (1969)
Shot On Ice (1969)
Swiss Movement (1969)
Above It All (1969)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
The Hothouse (1964)
The Sentimental Agent (1963)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The Avengers (1961)
Armchair Theatre (1956)
Tony Awards (1956)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
The Avengers : A Retrospective
In This House of Brede
Queen of Hearts
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1938-07-20
Deathday2020-09-10 (82 years old)
Birth NameEnid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
Birth PlaceDoncaster, United Kingdom
RelationshipsArchie Stirling (1982-01-01 - 1990-01-01), Menachem Gueffen (1973-01-01 - 1976-01-01)
ChildrenRachael Stirling
FatherLouis Rigg
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesHammersmith, United Kingdom
Also Known AsDame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
AwardsEvening 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 Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
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