Diana Rigg

Acting

Born: 1938-07-20
Died: 2020-09-10
From: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Gender: Female
Popularity: 2.3

Also Known As

Dame Diana RiggDame Enid Diana Elizabeth RiggДайана Риггدایانا 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Diana Rigg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Awards & Nominations7 won · 2 nominated

🏆 Won

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie

Rebecca

1997
🏆 Won

Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

1996
🏆 Won

Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress

Mother Courage

1996
🏆 Won

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

1994
🏆 Won

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

1994
🏆 Won

Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress

Medea

1992
🏆 Won

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

1988
Nominated

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

1975
Nominated

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

1971

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