Diana Rigg

Actor

Born: July 20, 1938
Died: September 10, 2020 (age 82)
From: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK

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…

Filmography (50)

Last Night in Soho (2021)
Ms. Collins
The Snail and the Whale (2020)
Narrator (voice)
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017)
Aunt Diana
Breathe (2017)
Lady Neville
Professor Branestawm Returns (2015)
Lady Pagwell
The Honourable Rebel
The Honourable Rebel (2015)
Narrator
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC (2015)
Self (archive material)
The Lark Ascending (2012)
Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
The Painted Veil (2006)
Mother Superior
Heidi (2005)
Grandmamma
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003)
Self
Victoria & Albert (2001)
Baroness Lehzen
Parting Shots (1999)
Lisa
The American (1998)
Madame de Bellegarde
Danielle Steel's Zoya (1997)
Evgenia
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (1996)
Mrs. Golightly
The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995)
Mrs. Grose
The World of Jim Henson (1994)
Lady Holiday (archive footage)
A Good Man in Africa (1994)
Chloe Fanshawe
Running Delilah (1994)
Judith
Genghis Cohn (1993)
Baroness Frieda von Stangel
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992)
Mme. Colbert
Unexplained Laughter (1989)
Lydia
Black Leather Jacket (1989)
Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
A Hazard of Hearts (1987)
Lady Harriet Vulcan
Snow White (1987)
Evil Queen
The Worst Witch (1986)
Constance Hardbroom
King Lear (1983)
Regan
Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
Christine Vole
Little Eyolf (1982)
Rita Allmers