8.5
8.5
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982
as Self / Arlena Stuart Marshall
Diana Rigg
Also known as: Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Dame Diana Rigg
Acting
Born:July 20, 1938
Died:September 10, 2020(aged 82)
Birthplace:Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Nationality:United Kingdom
Education:Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Fulneck School
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (49 movies)
7.8
7.8
A Hazard of Hearts
1987
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
7.6
7.6
Heidi
2005
as Grandmamma
7.6
7.6
Victoria & Albert
2001
as Baroness Lehzen
7.5
7.5
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017
as Aunt Diana
7.4
7.4
Breathe
2017
as Lady Neville
7.3
7.3
Last Night in Soho
2021
as Ms. Collins
7.3
7.3
The Painted Veil
2006
as Mother Superior
7.2
7.2
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
as Mme. Colbert
7.0
7.0
Professor Branestawm Returns
2015
as Lady Pagwell
7.0
7.0
Hedda Gabler
1981
as Hedda Gabler
6.9
6.9
The Great Muppet Caper
1981
as Lady Holiday
6.9
6.9
Evil Under the Sun
1982
as Arlena Stuart Marshall
6.7
6.7
Theatre of Blood
1973
as Edwina Lionheart
6.7
6.7
Snow White
1987
as Evil Queen
6.6
6.6
The Assassination Bureau
1969
as Sonya Winter
6.6
6.6
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
as Tracy Di Vicenzo
6.6
6.6
The Hospital
1971
as Barbara Drummond
6.5
6.5
The Snail and the Whale
2020
as Narrator (voice)
6.5
6.5
King Lear
1983
as Regan
6.3
6.3
Witness for the Prosecution
1982
as Christine Vole
6.3
6.3
Samson and Delilah
1996
as Mara
6.2
6.2
A Little Night Music
1977
as Charlotte Mittelheim
6.1
6.1
The Worst Witch
1986
as Constance Hardbroom
6.0
6.0
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996
as Mrs. Golightly
6.0
6.0
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Helena
6.0
6.0
Swiss Movement
1969
as Self
6.0
6.0
Little Eyolf
1982
as Rita Allmers
5.7
5.7
Julius Caesar
1970
as Portia
5.4
5.4
Running Delilah
1994
as Judith
5.4
5.4
Parting Shots
1999
as Lisa
5.0
5.0
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015
as Self (archive material)
4.9
4.9
A Good Man in Africa
1994
as Chloe Fanshawe
4.8
4.8
The American
1998
as Madame de Bellegarde
4.8
4.8
Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997
as Evgenia
4.8
4.8
In This House of Brede
1975
as Dame Philippa
4.3
4.3
The Haunting of Helen Walker
1995
as Mrs. Grose
4.0
4.0
Shot On Ice
1969
as Self
3.9
3.9
Genghis Cohn
1993
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
3.0
3.0
The Diadem
1969
as Secret Agent
The Lark Ascending
2012
as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
Unexplained Laughter
1989
as Lydia
The Hothouse
1964
as Anita Fender
Three Piece Suite
1977
as Various Roles
The Honourable Rebel
2015
as Narrator
Black Leather Jacket
1989
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
The Marquise
1980
as The Marquise Eloise
Our Man in the Caribbean
1964
as Francy (archive footage)
Minikillers
1969
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