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Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg 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.
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entertainment · English actress (1938–2020) · television actor · film actor · university teacher · stage actor · actor · also Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Dame Diana Rigg, Rigg
Born 20 July 1938 · Died 10 September 2020 · Q232876
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2026· 3 entries
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2024· 1 entry
Yahoo: Diana Rigg Young: 10 Captivating Facts About the British Icon Who Played Emma Peel
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2020· 4 entries
CNET: Diana Rigg dies at 82: Starred in Game of Thrones, Avengers and James Bond
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The Cheat Sheet: Diana Rigg’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Co-Stars Remember Lady Olenna Tyrell
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popcrush: ‘Game of Thrones’ Star Dame Diana Rigg Dead at 82
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Died 2020-09-10.
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2019· 3 entries
Rigg stated that "becoming a sex symbol overnight had shocked (her)"
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“becoming a sex symbol overnight had shocked (her)”
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– when gender pay inequality was very much in the news – that "not one woman in the industry supported me
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2015· 2 entries
And 2018, she received two additional Guest Actress Emmy nominations
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And 2016, she again reprised the role in seasons five and six in an expanded role from the books
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2014· 1 entry
Rigg received the Will Award, presented by the Shakespeare Theatre Company, along with Stacy Keach and John Hurt
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2013· 1 entry
Appeared in an episode of Doctor Who in a Victorian era–based story "The Crimson Horror" alongside her daughter, Rachael Stirling, Matt Smith, and Jenna-Louise Coleman
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2011· 1 entry
Played Mrs Higgins in Pygmalion at the Garrick Theatre, opposite Rupert Everett and Kara Tointon, having played Eliza Doolittle 37 years earlier at the Albery Theatre
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2009· 1 entry
A smoker from the age of 18, Rigg was still smoking 20 cigarettes (one pack) a day in 2009.
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2008· 1 entry
Returning there in 2009 to star in Noël Coward's Hay Fever
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2007· 1 entry
Appeared as Huma Rojo in The Old Vic's production of All About My Mother, adapted by Samuel Adamson and based on the film of the same title directed by Pedro Almodóvar
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2006· 1 entry
Appeared at the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End in a drama entitled Honour, which had a limited but successful run
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2004· 1 entry
Appeared as Violet Venable in the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield's production of Tennessee Williams's play Suddenly Last Summer, which transferred to the Albery Theatre
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2000· 1 entry
Played Gladys Mitchell's detective, Dame Beatrice Adela Le Strange Bradley, an eccentric old woman who worked for Scotland Yard as a pathologist
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1999· 1 entry
Rigg was appointed as the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford; she held the post for one year
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Rebecca (1997).
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Mother Courage (1996).
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(which transferred to the Aldwych Theatre in October 1996)
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1995· 1 entry
Appeared in a film adaptation for television based on Danielle Steel's Zoya as Evgenia, the main character's grandmother
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (1994).
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Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1994).
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for Medea (1992).
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(which transferred to the Wyndham's Theatre in 1993 and then Broadway in 1994, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Actress), Mother Courage at the National Theatre in 1995 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
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1990· 2 entries
For the BBC four-part miniseries Mother Love and, in 2000, received a special honorary BAFTA
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After Archie's affair with the actress Joely Richardson
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1989· 1 entry
Played Helena Vesey in Mother Love for the BBC; her portrayal of an obsessive mother who was prepared to do anything, even murder, to keep control of her son won Rigg the 1990 BAFTA for Best Television Actress
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1988).
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And a Dame in 1994 for services to drama
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1987· 1 entry
Took the lead role of Phyllis in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies at the Shaftesbury Theatre, recorded by First Night Records
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1986· 1 entry
Played Miss Hardbroom in a Central Television adaptation of The Worst Witch, starring opposite Tim Curry
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1982· 1 entry
Appeared in the musical Colette, based on the life of the French writer and created by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, but it closed during an American tour en route to Broadway
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1972· 1 entry
Described her as the most desirable woman he had ever met and who "radiated a lustrous beauty"
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1970· 1 entry
And made her Broadway debut with the play in 1971, in which she appeared nude with Keith Michell
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1957· 2 entries
In The Caucasian Chalk Circle and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959
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Studied at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1957).
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1938· 1 entry
Born 1938-07-20.
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