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: 7.06
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.
Last Night in Soho
as Ms. Collins
2021 • Movie
The Snail and the Whale
as Narrator (voice)
2020 • Movie
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
as Aunt Diana
2017 • Movie
Breathe
as Lady Neville
2017 • Movie
Professor Branestawm Returns
as Lady Pagwell
2015 • Movie
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
as Self (archive material)
2015 • Movie
The Lark Ascending
as Self - Presenter (as Dame Diana Rigg)
2012 • Movie
The Painted Veil
as Mother Superior
2006 • Movie
Heidi
as Grandmamma
2005 • Movie
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003 • Movie
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen
2001 • Movie
Parting Shots
as Lisa
1999 • Movie
The American
as Madame de Bellegarde
1998 • Movie
Danielle Steel's Zoya
as Evgenia
1997 • Movie
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs. Golightly
1996 • Movie
The Haunting of Helen Walker
as Mrs. Grose
1995 • Movie
The World of Jim Henson
as Lady Holiday (archive footage)
1994 • Movie
A Good Man in Africa
as Chloe Fanshawe
1994 • Movie
Running Delilah
as Judith
1994 • Movie
Genghis Cohn
as Baroness Frieda von Stangel
1993 • Movie
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Mme. Colbert
1992 • Movie
Unexplained Laughter
as Lydia
1989 • Movie
Black Leather Jacket
as Emma Peel (segment "Death at Bargain Prices") (archive footage)
1989 • Movie
A Hazard of Hearts
as Lady Harriet Vulcan
1987 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Diana Rigg.
Black Narcissus
as Mother Dorothea • 3 eps
2020 • Series
All Creatures Great & Small
as Mrs Pumphrey • 2 eps
2020 • Series
Victoria
as Duchess of Buccleuch • 8 eps
2016 • Series
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Sutton • 4 eps
2015 • Series
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
as Mayor Pink Panda (voice) • 3 eps
2014 • Series
Detectorists
as Veronica • 6 eps
2014 • Series
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant • 1 eps
2011 • Series
Game of Thrones
as Olenna Tyrell • 18 eps
2011 • Series
Extras
as Diana Rigg • 1 eps
2005 • Series
Doctor Who
as Mrs Gillyflower • 1 eps
2005 • Series
Charles II: The Power and The Passion
as Queen Henrietta Maria • 2 eps
2003 • Series
Victoria & Albert
as Baroness Lehzen • 2 eps
2001 • Series
Murder in Mind
as Jill Craig • 1 eps
2001 • Series
In the Beginning
as Mature Rebeccah • 2 eps
2000 • Series
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries
as Adela Bradley • 5 eps
1998 • Series
Parkinson
as Self • 1 eps
1998 • Series
Rebecca
as Mrs. Danvers • 2 eps
1997 • Series
Samson and Delilah
as Mara • 2 eps
1996 • Series
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Mrs Golightly • 1 eps
1996 • Series
Mother Love
as Helena Vesey • 4 eps
1989 • Series
The Play on One
as Lydia • 1 eps
1988 • Series
Bleak House
as Lady Honoria Dedlock • 7 eps
1985 • Series
Screen Two
as Frieda von Stangel • 1 eps
1985 • Series
Wogan
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1982 • Series