Cast & creator
Diana Rigg
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, Game of Thrones
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.
Also known as: Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Дайана Ригг, دایانا ریگ
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1949–2021 · acting roles
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Filmography (98)
Showing 98 of 98 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Game of Thrones
Olenna Tyrell
2011
Doctor Who
Mrs Gillyflower
2005
Tony Awards
Self - Host
1956Tony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956Tony Awards
Self - Co-Host / Presenter
1956Tony Awards
Self - Winner
1956
The Avengers
Emma Peel
1961
Wogan
Self - Guest
1982Wogan
Self
1982
Screen Two
Frieda von Stangel
1985
Masterpiece Mystery
Self - Host
1980
BBC Play of the Month
Rita Allmers
1965
All Creatures Great & Small
Mrs Pumphrey
2020
Omnibus
Self
1967
Parkinson
Self
1998
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
2011
Parkinson
Self - Guest
2004
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
2014
Victoria
Duchess of Buccleuch
2016
The BAFTA Awards
Self
1949
Extras
Diana Rigg
2005
The Play on One
Lydia
1988
Last Night in Soho
Ms. Collins
2021V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
1971
Murder in Mind
Jill Craig
2001Festival
Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus
1963
Snow White
Evil Queen
1987
Detectorists
Veronica
2014
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Tracy Di Vicenzo
1969
You, Me and the Apocalypse
Sutton
2015You, Me and the Apocalypse
Sutton (voice)
2015
Evil Under the Sun
Arlena Stuart Marshall
1982
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
Queen Henrietta Maria
2003
Bleak House
Lady Honoria Dedlock
1985
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Christine
1951
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mrs Golightly
1996
The Painted Veil
Mother Superior
2006
Black Narcissus
Mother Dorothea
2020
Breathe
Lady Neville
2017
Affairs of the Heart
Grace Gracedew
1974
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
Adela Bradley
1998
Armchair Theatre
Anita Fender
1956
In the Beginning
Mature Rebeccah
2000
The Great Muppet Caper
Lady Holiday
1981
The Worst Witch
Constance Hardbroom
1986The Kumars
Self
2014
The Snail and the Whale
Narrator (voice)
2020
Rebecca
Mrs. Danvers
1997Diana
Diana Smythe
1973
A Good Man in Africa
Chloe Fanshawe
1994
Theatre of Blood
Edwina Lionheart
1973
Samson and Delilah
Mara
1996
Witness for the Prosecution
Christine Vole
1982
The Hospital
Barbara Drummond
1971
Unexplained Laughter
Lydia
1989
Three Piece Suite
1977Three Piece Suite
Various Roles
1977
The World of Jim Henson
Lady Holiday (archive footage)
1994
A Hazard of Hearts
Lady Harriet Vulcan
1987
Heidi
Grandmamma
2005
The Serpent Son
Clytemnestra
1979
The Assassination Bureau
Sonya Winter
1969
A Little Night Music
Charlotte Mittelheim
1977
Mother Love
Helena Vesey
1989
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Self
2003
Victoria & Albert
Baroness Lehzen
2001
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Helena
1968
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Mrs. Golightly
1996
Parting Shots
Lisa
1999
Julius Caesar
Portia
1970
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Evgenia
1997
Victoria & Albert
Baroness Lehzen
2001
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Mme. Colbert
1992
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Gabler
1981
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Aunt Diana
2017
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Self (archive material)
2015
In This House of Brede
Dame Philippa
1975
Minikillers
Woman tourist
1969The Hothouse
Anita Fender
1964
The Haunting of Helen Walker
Mrs. Grose
1995
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
1982Three Piece Suite
Various Roles
1977
Running Delilah
Judith
1994
Genghis Cohn
Baroness Frieda von Stangel
1993
Our Man in the Caribbean
Francy (archive footage)
1964
King Lear
Regan
1983
The American
Madame de Bellegarde
1998
The Lark Ascending
Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
2012
Little Eyolf
Rita Allmers
1982
Black Leather Jacket
Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
1989
Professor Branestawm Returns
Lady Pagwell
2015
The Marquise
The Marquise Eloise
1980
Shot On Ice
Self
1969
Swiss Movement
Self
1969The Honourable Rebel
Narrator
2015
The Diadem
Secret Agent
1969