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Diana Rigg
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…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana Rigg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2021
Last Night in Soho
Movie Ms. Collins
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2020
Black Narcissus
TV show Mother Dorothea
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2020
The Snail and the Whale
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2020
All Creatures Great & Small
TV show Mrs Pumphrey
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2017
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Movie Aunt Diana
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2017
Breathe
Movie Lady Neville
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2016
Victoria
TV show Duchess of Buccleuch
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2015
Professor Branestawm Returns
Movie Lady Pagwell
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2015
The Honourable Rebel
Movie Narrator
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2015
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Movie Self (archive material)
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2015
You, Me and the Apocalypse
TV show Sutton
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2014
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
TV show Mayor Pink Panda (voice)
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2014
Detectorists
TV show Veronica
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2014
The Kumars
TV show Self
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2012
The Lark Ascending
Movie Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
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2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV show Self - Participant
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2011
Game of Thrones
TV show Olenna Tyrell
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2006
The Painted Veil
Movie Mother Superior
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2005
Heidi
Movie Grandmamma
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2005
Extras
TV show Diana Rigg
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2005
Doctor Who
TV show Mrs Gillyflower
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2004
Parkinson
TV show Self - Guest
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2003
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
TV show Queen Henrietta Maria
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2001
Victoria & Albert
Movie Baroness Lehzen
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2001
Victoria & Albert
TV show Baroness Lehzen
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2001
Murder in Mind
TV show Jill Craig
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2000
In the Beginning
TV show Mature Rebeccah
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1999
Parting Shots
Movie Lisa
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1998
The American
Movie Madame de Bellegarde
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1998
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
TV show Adela Bradley
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1998
Parkinson
TV show Self
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1997
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Movie Evgenia
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1997
Rebecca
TV show Mrs. Danvers
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1996
Samson and Delilah
TV show Mara
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1996
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
TV show Mrs Golightly
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1996
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Movie Mrs. Golightly
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1995
The Haunting of Helen Walker
Movie Mrs. Grose
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1994
The World of Jim Henson
Movie Lady Holiday (archive footage)
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1994
A Good Man in Africa
Movie Chloe Fanshawe
