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Last Night in Soho

as Ms. Collins

2021
Black Narcissus

as Mother Dorothea

2020
The Snail and the Whale

as Narrator (voice)

2020
Breathe

as Lady Neville

2017
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

as Aunt Diana

2017
The Painted Veil

as Mother Superior

2006
Heidi

as Grandmamma

2005
Charles II: The Power & the Passion

as Queen Henrietta Maria

2003
Rebecca

as Mrs. Danvers

1997
Rebecca

as Mrs. Danvers

1997
Samson and Delilah

as Mara

1996
The Haunting of Helen Walker

as Mrs. Grose

1995
A Good Man in Africa

as Chloe Fanshawe

1994
Running Delilah

as Judith

1994
Genghis Cohn

as Baroness Frieda von Stangel

1994
Mother Love

as Helena Vesey

1989
A Hazard of Hearts

as Lady Harriet Vulcan

1987
Snow White

as Evil Queen

1987
The Worst Witch

as Constance Hardbroom

1986
Affairs of the Heart

as Grace Gracedew

1983
King Lear

as Regan

1984
Evil Under the Sun

as Arlena Stuart Marshall

1982
Witness for the Prosecution

as Christine Vole

1982
The Great Muppet Caper

as Lady Holiday

1981
Diana

as Diana Smythe

1973
Theatre of Blood

as Edwina Lionheart

1973
The Hospital

as Barbara Drummond

1971
Julius Caesar

as Portia

1971
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

as Tracy Di Vicenzo

1969
Diana Rigg Diana Rigg

Birthday

1938-07-20

Place of Birth

Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK

Biography

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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