Diana Rigg

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.

Known For	Acting
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Birthday	1938-07-20
Place of Birth	Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As	Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Дайана Ригг, دایانا ریگ,

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Unexplained Laughter

Evil Under the Sun

Witness for the Prosecution

Shot On Ice

The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'

The Worst Witch

The Hospital

Bond Girls Are Forever

A Good Man in Africa

Theatre of Blood

The Painted Veil

The Great Muppet Caper

A Hazard of Hearts

The Assassination Bureau

A Little Night Music

In This House of Brede

Snow White

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Victoria & Albert

Minikillers

Running Delilah

Three Piece Suite

Genghis Cohn

Little Eyolf

Hedda Gabler

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Best Ever Bond

Black Leather Jacket

The Hothouse

The Marquise

King Lear

Professor Branestawm Returns

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

The Honourable Rebel

Samson and Delilah

Parting Shots

Breathe

Danielle Steel's Zoya

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

Julius Caesar

The American

The Haunting of Helen Walker

Last Night in Soho

The Snail and the Whale

The World of Jim Henson

Swiss Movement

Heidi

The Diadem