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Diana Rigg
Actor
Died September 10, 2020 (82 years)
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.
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Filmography
| 2021 | Last Night in Soho · as Ms. Collins |
| 2021 | Die Unbeugsamen · as Emma Peel |
| 2020 | All Creatures Great and Small (2020) (TV Series) · as Mrs Pumphrey |
| 2020 | Black Narcissus (TV Series) · as Mother Dorothea |
| 2019 | The Snail and the Whale · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong · as Aunt Diana |
| 2017 | Breathe · as Lady Neville |
| 2017 | Mischief at Christmas: Peter Pan Goes Wrong & A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong · as Aunt Diana/Narrator |
| 2016 | Victoria (TV Series) · as Duchess of Buccleuch |
| 2015 | The Honourable Rebel · as Narrator |
| 2015 | Professor Branestawm Returns · as Lady Pagwell |
| 2015 | You, Me and the Apocalypse (TV Series) · as Sutton |
| 2014 | Detectorists (TV Series) · as Veronica |
| 2014 | Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero (TV Series) · as Mayor Pink Panda (voice) |
| 2012 | Everything or Nothing · as Tracy |
| 2012 | Game of Thrones: Season 2 - Invitation to the Set · as Olenna Tyrell |
| 2011 | Game of Thrones (TV Series) · as Olenna Tyrell |
| 2011 | |
| 2006 | The Painted Veil · as Mother Superior |
| 2005 | Heidi · as Grandmamma |
| 2005 | Doctor Who (2005) (TV Series) · as Mrs Gillyflower |
| 2005 | The Agatha Christie Code · as Arlena Stuart Marshall |
| 2003 | Charles II: The Power and the Passion (TV Series) · as Queen Henrietta Maria |
| 2002 | Bond Girls Are Forever · as Tracy Di Vicenzo (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Best Ever Bond · as Tracy Vincenzo |
| 2001 | Victoria & Albert (TV Series) · as Baroness Lehzen |
| 2001 | Murder in Mind (TV Series) · as Jill Craig |
| 2000 | Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn · as Tracy Di Vicenzo |
| 2000 | In the Beginning (TV Series) · as Mature Rebeccah |
| 1999 | Television: The First Fifty Years · as Emma Peel |
| 1998 | Parting Shots · as Lisa |
| 1998 | The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1997 | Rebecca (TV Series) · as Mrs. Danvers |
| 1996 | Samson and Delilah · as Mara |
| 1996 | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (TV Series) · as Mrs. Golightly |
| 1996 | Sansone e Dalila (IT) (TV Series) · as Mara |
| 1995 | Zoya · as Evgenia |
| 1994 | A Good Man in Africa · as Chloe Fanshawe |
| 1994 | The World of Jim Henson · as Lady Holiday (archive footage) |
| 1993 | Running Delilah · as Judith |
| 1993 | Genghis Cohn · as Baroness Frieda von Stangel |
| 1992 | Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris · as Mme. Colbert |
| 1990 | Road to Avonlea (TV Series) · as Lady Blackwell |
| 1988 | The Play on One (TV Series) · as Lydia |
| 1987 | Snow White · as Evil Queen |
| 1986 | The Worst Witch · as Constance Hardbroom |
| 1985 | Bleak House (TV Series) · as Lady Honoria Dedlock |
| 1983 | King Lear · as Regan |
| 1983 | Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) · as Grace Gracedew |
| 1982 | Evil Under the Sun · as Arlena Stuart Marshall |
| 1982 | Witness for the Prosecution · as Christine Vole |
| 1981 | The Great Muppet Caper · as Lady Holiday |
| 1977 | A Little Night Music · as Charlotte Mittelheim |
| 1975 | In This House of Brede · as Dame Philippa |
| 1974 | Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) · as Grace Gracedew |
| 1973 | Theater of Blood · as Edwina Lionheart |
| 1971 | The Hospital · as Barbara Drummond |
| 1970 | Julius Caesar · as Portia |
| 1969 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service · as Tracy Di Vicenzo |
| 1969 | The Assassination Bureau · as Sonya Winter |
| 1969 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre (TV Series) · as Liz Jardine |
| 1968 | A Midsummer Night's Dream · as Helena |
| 1965 | Play of the Month (TV Series) · as Rita Allmers |
| 1961 | The Avengers (TV Series) · as Emma Peel |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) · as Anita Fender |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Christine |