Diana Rigg
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 21.011 |
| Birthday | 1938-07-20 |
| Place of Birth | Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, |
1969
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
6.585/1774
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women....
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1982
Evil Under the Sun
6.9/399
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangli...
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Evil Under the Sun
1982
Witness for the Prosecution
6/13
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the prac...
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Witness for the Prosecution
1982
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
8.5/2
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you through the making of the film.
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The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
1986
The Worst Witch
6/21
Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can't seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The...
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The Worst Witch
1971
The Hospital
6.6/91
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The Hospital
1973
Theatre of Blood
6.754/207
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
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Theatre of Blood
1994
A Good Man in Africa
5/33
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish A...
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A Good Man in Africa
2006
The Painted Veil
7.253/1111
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithfu...
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The Painted Veil
1981
The Great Muppet Caper
6.8/284
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The Great Muppet Caper
1987
A Hazard of Hearts
8.2/20
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A Hazard of Hearts
1969
The Assassination Bureau
6.4/59
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The Assassination Bureau
1977
A Little Night Music
6.3/13
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A Little Night Music
1987
Snow White
6.6/24
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Snow White
1975
In This House of Brede
6/3
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In This House of Brede
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
7/6
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
1996
Samson and Delilah
6.6/35
Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah.
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Samson and Delilah
1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream
5.3/6
Peter Hall's film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, filmed in and around an English country house and starring actors from the Royal Shakespeare Com...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
2001
Victoria & Albert
7.7/11
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-...
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Victoria & Albert
1969
Minikillers
0/0
W Germany/Spain co-feature short in which Diana Rigg capitalising on her role as Mrs Peel in The Avengers comes into contact with deadly toy dolls
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Minikillers
1994
Running Delilah
6.3/7
Top agent Delilah dies in a risky mission against weapon dealer Kercharian. But she's revived with high-tech medicine and artificial body parts. As in...
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Running Delilah
1977
Three Piece Suite
0/0
Miniseries comprising short plays featuring Diana Rigg and guests.
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Three Piece Suite
1994
Genghis Cohn
4.5/3
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Genghis Cohn
1982
Little Eyolf
6/1
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Little Eyolf
1981
Hedda Gabler
7/2
Stuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can't provide. Then a former fl...
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Hedda Gabler
1992
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
8/8
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1964
The Hothouse
0/0
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The Hothouse
2015
Professor Branestawm Returns
7/1
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Professor Branestawm Returns
1983
King Lear
6.2/8
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
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King Lear
2002
Bond Girls Are Forever
5.8/25
Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ur...
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Bond Girls Are Forever
1996
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
6.2/15
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1995
Danielle Steel's Zoya
4.5/11
A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
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Danielle Steel's Zoya
2015
The Honourable Rebel
0/0
A docu-drama about the life of the Hon. Elizabeth Montagu, a spy, screenwriter and worker in British cinema for Alexander Korda.
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The Honourable Rebel
1999
Parting Shots
6.5/8
Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is given a diagnosis of cancer and told that he has only three months to live. After thinking things over, he...
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Parting Shots
2017
Breathe
7.5/716
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
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Breathe
2017
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
8.1/18
The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a...
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1970
Julius Caesar
5.7/27
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ide...
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Julius Caesar
1998
The American
5.8/4
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The American
1995
The Haunting of Helen Walker
4.3/3
TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children h...
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2021
Last Night in Soho
7.34/3115
A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1...
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Last Night in Soho
2020
The Snail and the Whale
6.2/34
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The Snail and the Whale
1994
The World of Jim Henson
6.8/5
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Swiss Movement
6/1
Documentary short about the making of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) in Switzerland with a particular focus on the principal actors and the Pi...
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Swiss Movement
2005
Heidi
7.4/99
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Heidi
1969
The Diadem
0/0
Secret agent Emma has to carry out a special assignment in Germany. Her job is to protect a mysterious box, the key to which she wears as a chain arou...
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The Diadem
1989
Unexplained Laughter
0/0
Lydia is unlucky in love and retreats to the Welsh countryside with her friend Betty. But the beautiful scenery holds its own humour and passion.
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Unexplained Laughter
1969
Shot On Ice
4/1
A short documentary produced by the Ford Motor Company about the stock car rally on ice sequence in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
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Shot On Ice
2002
Best Ever Bond
5/4
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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Best Ever Bond
1989
Black Leather Jacket
0/0
Based upon Mick Farren's book,'The Black Leather Jacket', this documentary explores the history of this garment from it's utilitarian beginnings throu...
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Black Leather Jacket
1980
The Marquise
0/0
The only period comedy written by Noel Coward. France, 1736. Two distinguished families are celebrating the engagement of their children. The young c...
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