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