Diana Rigg
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1938-07-20 (82 years old)
Deathday
2020-09-10
Place of Birth
Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known As
Dame Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
Дайана Ригг
دایانا ریگ
Diana Rigg
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 & Heloi...
Acting
1969
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
1989
as Lydia
1982
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
1982
as Christine Vole
1969
as Self
1982
as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
1986
as Constance Hardbroom
1971
as Barbara Drummond
2002
as Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage)
1994
as Chloe Fanshawe
1973
as Edwina Lionheart
2006
as Mother Superior
1981
as Lady Holiday
1987
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
1969
as Sonya Winter
1977
as Charlotte Mittelheim
1975
as Dame Philippa
1987
as Evil Queen
1968
as Helena
2001
as Baroness Lehzen
1969
1994
as Judith
1977
as Various Roles
1993
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
1982
as Rita Allmers
1981
as Hedda Gabler
1992
as Mme. Colbert
2002
as Tracy Vincenzo (archive footage) (uncredited)
1989
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
1964
as Anita Fender
1980
as The Marquise Eloise
1983
as Regan
2015
as Lady Pagwell
1996
as Mrs. Golightly
2015
as Self (archive material)
2015
as Narrator
1996
as Mara
1999
as Lisa
2017
as Lady Neville
1997
as Evgenia
2017
as Aunt Diana
1970
as Portia
1998
as Madame de Bellegarde
1995
as Mrs. Grose
2021
as Ms. Collins
2020
as Narrator (voice)
1994
as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
1969
as Self
2005
as Grandmamma
1969
as Secret Agent
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