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Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
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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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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1938-07-20
- event Death Date 2020-09-10
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 17.6
- info Birth Place Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Diana Rigg
6.6
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969-12-18
0
Unexplained Laughter
1989-04-25
6.9
Evil Under the Sun
1982-03-05
6
Witness for the Prosecution
1982-12-04
4
Shot On Ice
1969-01-01
8.5
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1982-01-01
6
The Worst Witch
1986-10-31
6.6
The Hospital
1971-12-14
5.8
Bond Girls Are Forever
2002-11-06
5.2
A Good Man in Africa
1994-07-14
6.8
Theatre of Blood
1973-03-16
7.3
The Painted Veil
2006-12-09
6.9
The Great Muppet Caper
1981-06-26
8.1
A Hazard of Hearts
1987-12-27
6.5
The Assassination Bureau
1969-03-09
6.3
A Little Night Music
1977-09-30
6
In This House of Brede
1975-02-27
6.6
Snow White
1987-05-14
7
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003-04-03
5.3
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968-09-30
7.7
Victoria & Albert
2001-08-26
0
Minikillers
1969-01-03
6.3
Running Delilah
1994-03-22
0
Three Piece Suite
1977-01-01
4.5
Genghis Cohn
1994-03-02
6
Little Eyolf
1982-07-19
7
Hedda Gabler
1981-03-03
8
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992-12-27
5
Best Ever Bond
2002-11-22
0
Black Leather Jacket
1989-01-01
0
The Hothouse
1964-12-13
0
The Marquise
1980-09-07
6.5
King Lear
1983-04-03
7
Professor Branestawm Returns
2015-12-24
6.3
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996-10-13
0
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015-11-08
0
The Honourable Rebel
2015-12-04
6.6
Samson and Delilah
1996-12-08
6.1
Parting Shots
1999-05-14
7.5
Breathe
2017-10-13
5.1
Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997-07-26
8
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017-12-30
5.7
Julius Caesar
1970-06-04
5.8
The American
1998-12-26
4.3
The Haunting of Helen Walker
1995-12-03
7.4
Last Night in Soho
2021-10-21
6.2
The Snail and the Whale
2020-10-21
7.3
The World of Jim Henson
1994-11-23
6
Swiss Movement
1969-01-01
7.5
Heidi
2005-08-19
0
The Diadem
1969-01-01
6
Affairs of the Heart
1983-08-23
7.8
Extras
2005-07-21
6
Bleak House
1985-04-10
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
5.5
The Sentimental Agent
1963-09-28
6.4
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003-11-16
0
Three Piece Suite
1977-03-15
6.9
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998-08-31
5.9
Rebecca
1997-01-05
4.5
Wogan
1982-05-04
6.3
Mother Love
1989-10-29
5
Diana
1973-09-10
9
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996-12-01
7.7
The Avengers
1961-01-07
5
BBC Play of the Month
1965-10-19
5
The Kumars
2014-01-15
7.6
Doctor Who
2005-03-26
5
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
8.5
Game of Thrones
2011-04-17
7.1
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2014-12-05
7.4
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962-10-01
7.4
Victoria
2016-08-28
8.5
Murder in Mind
2001-04-22
4.5
Wogan
1982-05-04
7
You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015-09-30
7
You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015-09-30
8.2
Detectorists
2014-10-02
5.9
In the Beginning
2000-11-12
5.8
Armchair Theatre
1956-07-08
6
V.I.P. Schaukel
1971-05-09
9
The Serpent Son
1979-03-07
5
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011-10-24
5
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
5
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
5.5
The Play on One
1988-01-19
0
Samson and Delilah
1996-12-08
8
Masterpiece Mystery
1980-02-05
6.7
Black Narcissus
2020-11-23
4.9
The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11
8.1
All Creatures Great & Small
2020-09-01