Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth RiggDBE (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her roles include Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965–1968); Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013–2017); and the title role in Medea in the West End in 1993 followed by Broadway a year later.
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 Abelard & Heloise in 1971. Her role as Emma Peel made her a sex symbol. For her role in Medea, both in London and New York, she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was appointed CBE in 1988 and a Dame in 1994 for services to drama.
Rigg appeared in numerous TV series and films, playing Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968); 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 Rebecca (1997). Her other television credits include You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), Detectorists (2015), the Doctor Who episode "The Crimson Horror" (2013) with her daughter Rachael Stirling, and playing Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small (2020). Her final role was in Edgar Wright's 2021 psychological horror film Last Night in Soho, completed just before her death.
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her roles include Emma Peel in the TV...
Emma Peel is a fictional character played by DianaRigg in the British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers, and by Uma Thurman in the 1998 film...
Rita Tushingham, Michael Ajao, Terence Stamp and DianaRigg. It marks the final film appearances of Rigg and Margaret Nolan, who both died in 2020, and...
co-starring with her mother DianaRigg. Stirling was born in St Marylebone, London, England and is the daughter of actress DianaRigg and theatre producer Archibald...
portrayed by veteran English actress DianaRigg, who received significant critical praise for her portrayal. Rigg received Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding...
comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox and starring Vincent Price and DianaRigg. After being humiliated by members of the Theatre Critics Guild at an...
Stirling, born on 29 April 1967. Stirling was married to actress Dame DianaRigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) from 1982 to 1990. Their only child...
on March 12, 2007. Retrieved March 5, 2007. "We were all in love with DianaRigg and that show she was on." Mike Sekowsky, quoted in Les Daniels, Wonder...
by Michael Relph, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Oliver Reed, DianaRigg, Telly Savalas, and Curd Jürgens. It was released in the U.S. by Paramount...
from Kfar Yehezkel). Gueffen was married two more times, before marrying DianaRigg from 1973 to 1976. He married Judy Hillman in 1987 and was based in France...
1973–1974 sitcom starring DianaRiggDiana (British TV series), a 1984 drama starring Patsy Kensit and Jenny Seagrove "Diana" (Spooks), 2005, final episode...
In the novel’s 1969 film adaptation, Tracy is played by the actress DianaRigg. It is suggested that the inspiration for Tracy Bond came from Ian Fleming's...
Coleman) to prevent a plot by the chemist and engineer Mrs Gillyflower (DianaRigg), who wishes to start a new world by wiping out all of humanity, apart...
television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee as John Steed and DianaRigg as Emma Peel. It was filmed c. December 1965, and was first broadcast...
the television series All Creatures Great and Small, taking over from DianaRigg, who had died the previous year. Delayed for a year from autumn 2020 due...
descend into total chaos. George C. Scott as Dr. Herbert "Herb" Bock DianaRigg as Miss Barbara Drummond Robert Walden as Dr. Brubaker Barnard Hughes...
The Mrs Bradley Mysteries is a British drama series starring DianaRigg as Adela Bradley, and Neil Dudgeon as her chauffeur George Moody. The series was...
Harington. The season introduced a number of new cast members, including DianaRigg, Ciarán Hinds, Nathalie Emmanuel and Iwan Rheon. Critics praised the show's...
Teresa di Vicenzo (from On Her Majesty's Secret Service, portrayed by DianaRigg); and often ranked Number 1 on the list, Honey Ryder (from Dr. No, portrayed...
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