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

• 2021Last Night in Soho — Ms. Collins
• All Creatures Great & Small — Mrs Pumphrey
• Black Narcissus — Mother Dorothea
• 2020The Snail and the Whale — Narrator (voice)
• 2017A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong — Aunt Diana
• 2017Breathe — Lady Neville
• Victoria — Duchess of Buccleuch
• 2015Professor Branestawm Returns — Lady Pagwell
• 2015The Honourable Rebel — Narrator
• You, Me and the Apocalypse — Sutton, Sutton (voice)
• Detectorists — Veronica
• Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero — Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
• Game of Thrones — Olenna Tyrell
• 2006The Painted Veil — Mother Superior
• Doctor Who — Mrs Gillyflower
• Extras — Diana Rigg
• 2005Heidi — Grandmamma
• Charles II: The Power and The Passion — Queen Henrietta Maria
• Murder in Mind — Jill Craig
• 2001Victoria & Albert — Baroness Lehzen
• Victoria & Albert — Baroness Lehzen
• In the Beginning — Mature Rebeccah
• 1999Parting Shots — Lisa
• 1998The American — Madame de Bellegarde
• The Mrs Bradley Mysteries — Adela Bradley
• 1997Danielle Steel's Zoya — Evgenia
• Rebecca — Mrs. Danvers
• Samson and Delilah — Mara
• 1996The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders — Mrs. Golightly
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders — Mrs Golightly
• 1995The Haunting of Helen Walker — Mrs. Grose
• 1994A Good Man in Africa — Chloe Fanshawe
• 1994Running Delilah — Judith
• 1994The World of Jim Henson — Lady Holiday (archive footage)
• 1993Genghis Cohn — Baroness Frieda von Stangel
• 1992Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris — Mme. Colbert
• 1989Black Leather Jacket — Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
• Mother Love — Helena Vesey
• 1989Unexplained Laughter — Lydia
• The Play on One — Lydia
• 1987A Hazard of Hearts — Lady Harriet Vulcan
• 1987Snow White — Evil Queen
• 1986The Worst Witch — Constance Hardbroom
• Bleak House — Lady Honoria Dedlock
• Screen Two — Frieda von Stangel
• 1983King Lear — Regan
• 1982Evil Under the Sun — Arlena Stuart Marshall
• 1982Little Eyolf — Rita Allmers
• 1982Witness for the Prosecution — Christine Vole
• 1981Hedda Gabler — Hedda Gabler
• 1981The Great Muppet Caper — Lady Holiday
• 1980The Marquise — The Marquise Eloise
• The Serpent Son — Clytemnestra
• 1977A Little Night Music — Charlotte Mittelheim
• 1977Three Piece Suite — Various Roles
• Three Piece Suite — Various Roles
• 1975In This House of Brede — Dame Philippa
• Affairs of the Heart — Grace Gracedew
• Diana — Diana Smythe
• 1973Theatre of Blood — Edwina Lionheart
• 1971The Hospital — Barbara Drummond
• 1970Julius Caesar — Portia
• 1969Minikillers — Woman tourist
• 1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service — Tracy Di Vicenzo
• 1969The Assassination Bureau — Sonya Winter
• 1969The Diadem — Secret Agent
• 1968A Midsummer Night's Dream — Helena
• BBC Play of the Month — Rita Allmers
• 1964Our Man in the Caribbean — Francy (archive footage)
• 1964The Hothouse — Anita Fender
• Festival — Adriana, Wife to Antipholus of Ephesus
• The Avengers — Emma Peel
• Armchair Theatre — Anita Fender
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Christine

Appearances as themselves (18)

• 2015Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC — Self (archive material)
• The Kumars — Self
• 2012The Lark Ascending — Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant
• Parkinson — Self - Guest
• 2003Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self
• Parkinson — Self
• 1982The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' — Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
• Wogan — Self - Guest
• Masterpiece Mystery — Self - Host
• V.I.P. Schaukel — Self
• 1969Shot On Ice — Self
• 1969Swiss Movement — Self
• Omnibus — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Host, Self - Nominee, Self - Co-Host / Presenter, Self - Winner
• The BAFTA Awards — Self