Diana Rigg

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana Rigg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Name Diana Rigg
Also Known As Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
Birthday 1938-07-20
Deathday 2020-09-10
Gender Female
IMDB Diana Rigg profile on IMDB
Place of Birth Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
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1982-01-01
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2020-10-21
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2006-12-09
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1995-09-17
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1997-01-05
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1982-05-04
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1977-03-15
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2005-03-26
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2011-04-17
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2016-08-28
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2014-10-02
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As: Jill Craig
2001-04-22
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1982-05-04
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2000-11-12
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1971-05-09
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1956-04-01
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2020-11-23
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2014-01-15
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As: Sutton (voice)
2015-09-30
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1996-12-01
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