Diana Rigg
1938-07-20 ( 86 years old ) in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK

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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Last Night in Soho 2021-10-21
The Snail and the Whale 2020-10-21
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong 2017-12-30
Breathe 2017-10-13
Professor Branestawm Returns 2015-12-24
The Honourable Rebel 2015-12-04
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC 2015-11-08
The Painted Veil 2006-12-09
Heidi 2005-08-19
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There 2003-04-03
Best Ever Bond 2002-11-22
Bond Girls Are Forever 2002-11-06
Victoria & Albert 2001-08-26
Parting Shots 1999-05-14
The American 1998-12-26
Danielle Steel's Zoya 1997-07-26
Samson and Delilah 1996-12-08
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders 1996-10-13
The Haunting of Helen Walker 1995-12-03
The World of Jim Henson 1994-11-23
A Good Man in Africa 1994-07-14
Running Delilah 1994-03-22
Genghis Cohn 1993-11-09
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris 1992-12-27
Unexplained Laughter 1989-04-25
Black Leather Jacket 1989-01-01
A Hazard of Hearts 1987-12-27
Snow White 1987-05-14
The Worst Witch 1986-10-22
King Lear 1983-04-03
Witness for the Prosecution 1982-12-04
Little Eyolf 1982-07-19
Evil Under the Sun 1982-03-05
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' 1982-01-01
The Great Muppet Caper 1981-06-26
Hedda Gabler 1981-03-03
The Marquise 1980-09-07
A Little Night Music 1977-09-30
Three Piece Suite 1977-01-01
In This House of Brede 1975-02-27
Theatre of Blood 1973-03-16
The Hospital 1971-12-14
Julius Caesar 1970-06-04
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969-12-18
The Assassination Bureau 1969-03-09
Minikillers 1969-01-03
Shot On Ice 1969-01-01
Swiss Movement 1969-01-01
The Diadem 1969-01-01
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1968-09-30
The Hothouse 1964-12-13

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