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