Birth Day: 1938-07-20
Place of birth: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana Rigg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Credits
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As Ms. Collins -
As Narrator (voice) -
As Aunt Diana -
As Lady Neville -
As Narrator
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As Self (archive material) -
As Lady Pagwell -
As Mother Superior -
As Grandmamma -
As Self -
As Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage) -
As Tracy Vincenzo (archive footage) (uncredited)
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As Baroness Lehzen -
As Lisa -
As Madame de Bellegarde -
As Evgenia -
As Mrs. Golightly -
As Mara -
As Mrs. Grose -
As Judith -
As Lady Holiday (archive footage) -
As Chloe Fanshawe -
As Baroness Frieda von Stangel -
As Mme. Colbert -
As Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage) -
As Lydia -
As Lady Harriet Vulcan -
As Evil Queen -
As Constance Hardbroom -
As Regan -
As Christine Vole -
As Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall -
As Arlena Stuart Marshall -
As Rita Allmers -
As Hedda Gabler -
As Lady Holiday -
As The Marquise Eloise -
As Charlotte Mittelheim -
As Various Roles -
As Dame Philippa -
As Edwina Lionheart -
As Barbara Drummond -
As Portia -
As Self -
As Tracy Di Vicenzo -
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As Sonya Winter -
As Self -
As Secret Agent -
As Helena -
As Anita Fender