
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 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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The titles people know Diana from.
IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.
as Ms. Collins
as Mother Dorothea · 3 episodes
as Narrator (voice)
as Mrs Pumphrey · 2 episodes
as Aunt Diana
as Lady Neville
as Duchess of Buccleuch · 8 episodes

as Lady Pagwell
as Narrator
as Sutton · 4 episodes
as Mayor Pink Panda (voice) · 3 episodes
as Veronica · 6 episodes
as Mother Superior
as Grandmamma
as Diana Rigg · 1 episode
as Mrs Gillyflower · 1 episode
as Queen Henrietta Maria · 2 episodes
as Baroness Lehzen

as Baroness Lehzen · 2 episodes
as Jill Craig · 1 episode
as Lisa

as Madame de Bellegarde
as Adela Bradley · 5 episodes
as Evgenia
as Mrs. Danvers · 2 episodes

as Mara · 2 episodes

as Mrs Golightly · 1 episode
as Mrs. Golightly

as Helena Vesey · 4 episodes

as Lydia

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

as Lydia · 1 episode
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
as Evil Queen
as Constance Hardbroom

as Lady Honoria Dedlock · 7 episodes

as Clytemnestra · 3 episodes
as Charlotte Mittelheim

as Various Characters

as Various Roles

as Dame Philippa

as Grace Gracedew · 1 episode
as Diana Smythe · 15 episodes
as Edwina Lionheart
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
as Sonya Winter

as Woman tourist

as Secret Agent
as Helena

as Rita Allmers · 1 episode
as Anita Fender

as Francy (archive footage)

as Anita Fender · 1 episode

as Christine · 1 episode
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