Diana Rigg
Born July 20, 1938 (Age: 87)
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Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography
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.
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.
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Filmography
Last Night in Soho
2021
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as Ms. Collins
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Age: 83
Breathe
2017
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as Lady Neville
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Age: 79
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
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as Self (archive material)
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Age: 77
The Lark Ascending
2012
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as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
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Age: 73
The Painted Veil
2006
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as Mother Superior
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Age: 68
Heidi
2005
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as Grandmamma
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Age: 67
The American
1998
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as Madame de Bellegarde
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Age: 60
Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997
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as Evgenia
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Age: 59
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996
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as Mrs. Golightly
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Age: 58
Genghis Cohn
1993
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as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
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Age: 55
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
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as Mme. Colbert
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Age: 54
Unexplained Laughter
1989
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as Lydia
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Age: 50
Black Leather Jacket
1989
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as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
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Age: 50
A Hazard of Hearts
1987
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as Lady Harriet Vulcan
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Age: 49
Snow White
1987
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as Evil Queen
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Age: 49
Evil Under the Sun
1982
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as Arlena Stuart Marshall
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Age: 43
The Great Muppet Caper
1981
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as Lady Holiday
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Age: 42
Hedda Gabler
1981
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as Hedda Gabler
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Age: 42
The Marquise
1980
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as The Marquise Eloise
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Age: 42
Theatre of Blood
1973
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as Edwina Lionheart
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Age: 34
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
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as Tracy Di Vicenzo
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Age: 31
The Assassination Bureau
1969
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as Sonya Winter
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Age: 30
Minikillers
1969
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as
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Age: 30
The Diadem
1969
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as Secret Agent
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Age: 30
Shot On Ice
1969
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as Self
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Age: 30
Swiss Movement
1969
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as Self
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Age: 30
No Image
The Hothouse
1964
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as Anita Fender
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Age: 26
Our Man in the Caribbean
1964
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as Francy (archive footage)
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Age: 25