Acting credits
87
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Diana Rigg
Acting
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Movies: 49Series: 38
TMDB ID: 10168
IMDb ID: nm0001671
Known for: Acting
Born: July 20, 1938
Died: September 10, 2020
Age: 82
Place of birth: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1949 - 2021
Years active: 73
Average TMDB rating: 7.09
Wikidata: Q232876
Also known as
Dame Diana Rigg • Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg • Дайана Ригг • دایانا ریگ
Biography
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (July 20, 1938 – September 10, 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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Diana Rigg.
as Ms. Collins
Last Night in Soho
2021 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
The Snail and the Whale
2020 • Movie
as Aunt Diana
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
2017 • Movie
as Lady Neville
Breathe
2017 • Movie
as Lady Pagwell
Professor Branestawm Returns
2015 • Movie
as Self (archive material)
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015 • Movie
as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
The Lark Ascending
2012 • Movie
as Mother Superior
The Painted Veil
2006 • Movie
as Grandmamma
Heidi
2005 • Movie
as Self
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003 • Movie
as Baroness Lehzen
Victoria & Albert
2001 • Movie
as Lisa
Parting Shots
1999 • Movie
as Madame de Bellegarde
The American
1998 • Movie
as Evgenia
Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997 • Movie
as Mrs. Golightly
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996 • Movie
as Mrs. Grose
The Haunting of Helen Walker
1995 • Movie
as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
The World of Jim Henson
1994 • Movie
as Chloe Fanshawe
A Good Man in Africa
1994 • Movie
as Judith
Running Delilah
1994 • Movie
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
Genghis Cohn
1993 • Movie
as Mme. Colbert
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992 • Movie
as Lydia
Unexplained Laughter
1989 • Movie
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
Black Leather Jacket
1989 • Movie
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
A Hazard of Hearts
1987 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Diana Rigg.
as Mother Dorothea • 3 eps
Black Narcissus
2020 • Series
as Mrs Pumphrey • 2 eps
All Creatures Great & Small
2020 • Series
as Duchess of Buccleuch • 8 eps
Victoria
2016 • Series
as Sutton • 4 eps
You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015 • Series
as Mayor Pink Panda (voice) • 3 eps
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
2014 • Series
as Veronica • 6 eps
Detectorists
2014 • Series
as Self - Participant • 1 eps
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 • Series
as Olenna Tyrell • 18 eps
Game of Thrones
2011 • Series
as Diana Rigg • 1 eps
Extras
2005 • Series
as Mrs Gillyflower • 1 eps
Doctor Who
2005 • Series
as Queen Henrietta Maria • 2 eps
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
2003 • Series
as Baroness Lehzen • 2 eps
Victoria & Albert
2001 • Series
as Jill Craig • 1 eps
Murder in Mind
2001 • Series
as Mature Rebeccah • 2 eps
In the Beginning
2000 • Series
as Adela Bradley • 5 eps
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
1998 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Parkinson
1998 • Series
as Mrs. Danvers • 2 eps
Rebecca
1997 • Series
as Mara • 2 eps
Samson and Delilah
1996 • Series
as Mrs Golightly • 1 eps
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
1996 • Series
as Helena Vesey • 4 eps
Mother Love
1989 • Series
as Lydia • 1 eps
The Play on One
1988 • Series
as Lady Honoria Dedlock • 7 eps
Bleak House
1985 • Series
as Frieda von Stangel • 1 eps
Screen Two
1985 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
Wogan
1982 • Series