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.

Cast

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

(Tracy Di Vicenzo)

Unexplained Laughter

(Lydia)

Evil Under the Sun

(Arlena Stuart Marshall)

Witness for the Prosecution

(Christine Vole)

Shot On Ice

(Self)

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

(Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall)

The Worst Witch

(Constance Hardbroom)

The Hospital

(Barbara Drummond)

Bond Girls Are Forever

(Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage))

A Good Man in Africa

(Chloe Fanshawe)

Theatre of Blood

(Edwina Lionheart)

The Painted Veil

(Mother Superior)

The Great Muppet Caper

(Lady Holiday)

A Hazard of Hearts

(Lady Harriet Vulcan)

The Assassination Bureau

(Sonya Winter)

A Little Night Music

(Charlotte Mittelheim)

In This House of Brede

(Dame Philippa)

Snow White

(Evil Queen)

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

(Self)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

(Helena)

Victoria & Albert

(Baroness Lehzen)

Minikillers

Running Delilah

(Judith)

Three Piece Suite

(Various Roles)

Genghis Cohn

(Baroness Frieda von Stangel)

Little Eyolf

(Rita Allmers)

Hedda Gabler

(Hedda Gabler)

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

(Mme. Colbert)

Best Ever Bond

(Tracy Vincenzo (archive footage) (uncredited))

Black Leather Jacket

(Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage))

The Hothouse

(Anita Fender)

The Marquise

(The Marquise Eloise)

King Lear

(Regan)

Professor Branestawm Returns

(Lady Pagwell)

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

(Mrs. Golightly)

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

(Self (archive material))

The Honourable Rebel

(Narrator)

Samson and Delilah

(Mara)

Parting Shots

(Lisa)

Breathe

(Lady Neville)

Danielle Steel's Zoya

(Evgenia)

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

(Aunt Diana)

Julius Caesar

(Portia)

The American

(Madame de Bellegarde)

The Haunting of Helen Walker

(Mrs. Grose)

Last Night in Soho

(Ms. Collins)

The Snail and the Whale

(Narrator (voice))

The World of Jim Henson

(Lady Holiday (archive footage))

Swiss Movement

(Self)

Heidi

(Grandmamma)

The Diadem

(Secret Agent)

Affairs of the Heart

(Grace Gracedew)

Extras

(Diana Rigg)

Bleak House

(Lady Honoria Dedlock)

Hallmark Hall of Fame

(Christine)

The Sentimental Agent

Charles II: The Power and The Passion

(Queen Henrietta Maria)

Three Piece Suite

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

(Adela Bradley)

Rebecca

(Mrs. Danvers)

Wogan

(Self - Guest)

Mother Love

(Helena Vesey)

Diana

(Diana Smythe)

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

(Mrs. Golightly)

The Avengers

(Emma Peel)

BBC Play of the Month

(Rita Allmers)

The Kumars

(Self)

Doctor Who

(Mrs Gillyflower)

Tony Awards

(Self - Co-Host/Presenter)

Game of Thrones

(Olenna Tyrell)

Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero

(Mayor Pink Panda (voice))

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

(Self)

Victoria

(Duchess of Buccleuch)

Murder in Mind

(Jill Craig)

Wogan

(Self)

You, Me and the Apocalypse

(Sutton)

You, Me and the Apocalypse

(Sutton (voice))

Detectorists

(Veronica)

In the Beginning

(Mature Rebeccah)

Armchair Theatre

(Anita Fender)

V.I.P. Schaukel

(Self)

The Serpent Son

(Clytemnestra)

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

(Self - Participant)

Tony Awards

(Self - Host)

Tony Awards

(Self - Nominee)

The Play on One

(Lydia)

Samson and Delilah

(Mara)

Masterpiece Mystery

(Self)

Black Narcissus

(Mother Dorothea)

The Mike Douglas Show

(Self)

All Creatures Great & Small

(Mrs Pumphrey)

Tony Awards

(Self - Winner)

Victoria & Albert

(Baroness Lehzen)

Parkinson

(Self)