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Dame
Diana Rigg
DBE
Rigg in Diana in 1973
Born
Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg

(1938-07-20) 20 July 1938 (age 86)
Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
OccupationActress
Years active1957–present
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1973; div. 1976)​

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(m. 1982; div. 1990)​
ChildrenRachael Stirling

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965–68), Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013–17). She has also had an extensive 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); 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 1989 BBC miniseries Mother Love, and an Emmy Award for her role as Mrs. Danvers in the 1997 adaptation of Rebecca. Her other television credits include You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), Detectorists (2015), and the Doctor Who episode "The Crimson Horror" (2013) opposite her daughter, Rachael Stirling.

Early life and education

Rigg was born in Doncaster, which was then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, now in South Yorkshire,[1] in 1938, to Louis Rigg (1903–1968) and Beryl Hilda (née Helliwell; 1908–1981); her father was a railway engineer who had been born in Yorkshire.[citation needed] Between the ages of two months and eight years Rigg lived in Bikaner, India,[1] where her father was employed as a railway executive.[citation needed] She spoke Hindi as her second language in those young years.

She was later sent back to England to attend a boarding school, Fulneck Girls School, in a Moravian settlement near Pudsey.[citation needed] Rigg hated her boarding school, where she felt like a fish out of water, but she believes that Yorkshire played a greater part in shaping her character than India did.[2] She trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art[3] from 1955–57, where her classmates included Glenda Jackson and Siân Phillips.[citation needed]

Theatre career

Rigg's career in film, television and the theatre has been wide-ranging, including roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1959 and 1964. Her professional debut was as Natasha Abashwilli in the RADA production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the York Festival in 1957.[4]

She returned to the stage in the Ronald Millar play Abelard and Heloïse in London in 1970, and made her Broadway debut with the play in 1971, earning the first of three Tony Award nominations for Best Actress in a Play. She received her second nomination in 1975, for The Misanthrope. A member of the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic from 1972 to 1975, Rigg took leading roles in premiere productions of two Tom Stoppard plays, Dorothy Moore in Jumpers (National Theatre, 1972) and Ruth Carson in Night and Day (Phoenix Theatre, 1978).[citation needed]

In 1982, she appeared in a musical called 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. In 1987 she took a leading role in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies. In the 1990s, she had triumphs with roles at the Almeida Theatre in Islington, including Medea in 1992 (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? at the Almeida Theatre in 1996 (which transferred to the Aldwych Theatre in 1997).[citation needed]

In 2004, she appeared as Violet Venable in Sheffield Theatres' production of Tennessee Williams's play Suddenly Last Summer, which transferred to the Albery Theatre. In 2006, she appeared at the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End in a drama entitled Honour which had a limited but successful run. In 2007, she 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.[citation needed]

She appeared in 2008 in The Cherry Orchard at the Chichester Festival Theatre, returning there in 2009 to star in Noël Coward's Hay Fever. In 2011 she 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.[citation needed]

In February 2018 she returned to Broadway in the non-singing role of Mrs. Higgins in My Fair Lady. She commented on taking the role, "I think it's so special. When I was offered Mrs. Higgins, I thought it was just such a lovely idea."[5] She received her fourth Tony nomination for the role.[6]

Film and television career

Rigg appeared in the British 1960s television series The Avengers (1965–68) opposite Patrick Macnee as John Steed, playing the secret agent Emma Peel in 51 episodes, replacing Elizabeth Shepherd at very short notice when Shepherd was dropped from the role after filming two episodes. Rigg auditioned for the role on a whim, without ever having seen the programme. Although she was hugely successful in the series, she disliked the lack of privacy that it brought. Also, she was not comfortable in her position as a sex symbol.[7] She also did not like the way that she was treated by the Associated British Corporation (ABC). After a dozen episodes she discovered that she was being paid less than a cameraman. For her second season she held out for a pay rise from £150 a week to £450;[8] she said in 2019—when gender pay inequality was very much in the news—that "not one woman in the industry supported me ... Neither did Patrick [Macnee, her co-star]... But I was painted as this mercenary creature by the press when all I wanted was equality. It’s so depressing that we are still talking about the gender pay gap."[2] She did not stay for a third year. Patrick Macnee noted that Rigg had later told him that she considered Macnee and her driver to be her only friends on the set.[9] On the big screen she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), playing Tracy Bond, James Bond's only wife, opposite George Lazenby. She said she took the role with the hope that she would become better known in the United States.[10] In 1973–1974, she starred in a short-lived US sitcom called Diana.[citation needed]

Her other films from this period include The Assassination Bureau (1969), Julius Caesar (1970), The Hospital (1971), Theatre of Blood (1973), In This House of Brede (1975), based on the book by Rumer Godden, and A Little Night Music (1977). She appeared as the title character in The Marquise (1980), a television adaptation of play by Noël Coward. She appeared in the Yorkshire Television production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1981) in the title role, and as Lady Holiday in the film The Great Muppet Caper (also 1981). The following year she received acclaim for her performance as Arlena Marshall in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun, sharing barbs with her character's old rival, played by Maggie Smith.[citation needed]

She appeared as Regan, the king's treacherous second daughter, in a Granada Television production of King Lear (1983), which starred Laurence Olivier in the title role. As Lady Dedlock she costarred with Denholm Elliott in a television version of Dickens' Bleak House (BBC, 1985), and played the Evil Queen, Snow White's evil stepmother, in the Cannon Movie Tales's film adaptation of Snow White (1987). In 1989 she 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 1989 BAFTA for Best Television Actress.[citation needed]

In 1995, she appeared in a movie adaptation for television based on Danielle Steel's Zoya as Evgenia, the main character's grandmother.[citation needed]

She appeared on television as Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca (1997), winning an Emmy, as well as the PBS production Moll Flanders, and as the amateur detective Mrs. Bradley in The Mrs Bradley Mysteries. In this BBC series, first aired in 2000, she played Gladys Mitchell's detective, Dame Beatrice Adela Le Strange Bradley, an eccentric old woman who worked for Scotland Yard as a pathologist. The series was not a critical success and did not return for a second season.[citation needed]

From 1989 until 2003, she hosted the PBS television series Mystery!, shown in the United States by PBS broadcaster WGBH, taking over from Vincent Price,[11] her co-star in Theatre of Blood. Her TV career in America has been varied. She starred in her own sitcom Diana (1973), but it was not successful.[citation needed]

She also appeared in the second series of Ricky Gervais's comedy Extras, alongside Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, and in the 2006 film The Painted Veil.[citation needed]

In 2013 she appeared in an episode of Doctor Who in a Victorian-era based story called "The Crimson Horror" alongside her daughter Rachael Stirling, Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman. The episode had been specially written for her and her daughter by Mark Gatiss and aired as part of series 7.[12] It was not the first time mother and daughter had appeared in the same production – that was in the 2000 NBC film In the Beginning – but the first time she had worked with her daughter and also the first time in her career her roots were accessed to find a Doncaster, Yorkshire, accent.[citation needed]

The same year, Rigg secured a recurring role in the third season of the HBO series Game of Thrones, portraying Lady Olenna Tyrell, a witty and sarcastic political mastermind popularly known as the Queen of Thorns, the grandmother of regular character Margaery Tyrell.[13] Her performance was well received by critics and audiences alike, and earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2013.[14] She reprised her role in season four of Game of Thrones, and in July 2014 received another Guest Actress Emmy nomination.[15][16] In 2015 and 2016, she again reprised the role in seasons five and six in an expanded role from the books. The character was finally killed off in the seventh season, with Rigg's final performance receiving critical acclaim.[17] In April 2019 Rigg said she had never watched Game of Thrones, before or after her time on the show.[18]

Personal life

In the 1960s, Rigg lived for eight years with director Philip Saville, gaining attention in the tabloids when she disclaimed interest in marrying the older, already-married Saville, saying she had no desire "to be respectable."[19] She was married to Menachem Gueffen, an Israeli painter, from 1973 until their divorce in 1976,[20] and to Archibald Stirling, a theatrical producer and former officer in the Scots Guards, from 25 March 1982,[21] until their divorce in 1990 after his affair with the actress Joely Richardson.[3] With Stirling, Rigg has a daughter, actress Rachael Stirling, who was born in 1977.[22]

Rigg has long been an outspoken critic of feminism,[23] saying in 1969, "Women are in a much stronger position than men."[24]

Rigg is a Patron of International Care & Relief and was for many years the public face of the charity's child sponsorship scheme. She was also Chancellor of the University of Stirling, a ceremonial rather than executive role,[3] and was succeeded by James Naughtie when her ten-year term of office ended on 31 July 2008.[25]

Michael Parkinson, who first interviewed Rigg in 1972, described her as the most desirable woman he ever met, who "radiated a lustrous beauty".[26] A smoker from the age of 18, Rigg was still smoking 20 cigarettes a day in 2009.[27] By December 2017, she had stopped smoking after serious illness led to heart surgery, a cardiac ablation, two months earlier. A devout Christian, she commented that: "My heart had stopped ticking during the procedure, so I was up there and the good Lord must have said, 'Send the old bag down again, I'm not having her yet!'"[28]

In a June 2015 interview with Stephen Bowie of The A.V. Club, Rigg also commented about the chemistry between Patrick Macnee and herself on The Avengers, despite being 16 years apart: "I sort of vaguely knew Patrick Macnee, and he looked kindly on me and sort of husbanded me through the first couple of episodes. After that we became equal, and loved each other and sparked off each other. And we'd then improvise, write our own lines. They trusted us. Particularly our scenes when we were finding a dead body—I mean, another dead body. How do you get 'round that one? They allowed us to do it." She also said about the improvisation of the dialogue: "Not for an instant, no. Well, when I say improvising, Pat and I would sit down and work out approximately what we'd say. It wasn't sort of...who's the American duo? Mike Nichols and Elaine May. It was definitely not that." Asked if she had ever stayed in touch with Macnee (the interview was published two days before Macnee's death and decades after they were reunited for one last time on her short-lived American series Diana): "You'll always be close to somebody that you worked with very intimately for so long, and you become really fond of each other. But we haven't seen each other for a very, very long time."[29]

Her first grandchild, a boy named Jack (born to Rachael Stirling and Elbow frontman Guy Garvey), was born in April 2017.[30] In an interview with The Guardian in 2019 Rigg stated that "becoming a sex symbol overnight [in The Avengers] shocked" her.[31]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1968 A Midsummer Night's Dream Helena
1969 Mini-Killers Short film
The Assassination Bureau Sonya Winter
On Her Majesty's Secret Service Contessa Teresa "Tracy" Draco di Vicenzo Bond
1970 Julius Caesar Portia
1971 The Hospital Barbara Drummond
1973 Theatre of Blood Edwina Lionheart
1977 A Little Night Music Countess Charlotte Mittelheim
1981 The Great Muppet Caper Lady Holiday
1982 Evil Under the Sun Arlena Marshall
1987 Snow White The Evil Queen, Snow White's evil stepmother
1994 A Good Man in Africa Chloe Fanshawe
1999 Parting Shots Lisa
2005 Heidi Grandmamma
2006 The Painted Veil Mother Superior
2015 The Honourable Rebel Narrator
2017 Breathe Lady Neville

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1959 A Midsummer Night's Dream Bit part TV film
1963 The Sentimental Agent Francy Wilde Episode: "A Very Desirable Plot"
1964 Festival Adriana Episode: "The Comedy of Errors"
Armchair Theatre Anita Fender Episode: "The Hothouse"
1965 ITV Play of the Week Bianca Episode: "Women Beware Women"
1965–68 The Avengers Emma Peel Main role (51 episodes)
1970 ITV Saturday Night Theatre Liz Jardine Episode: "Married Alive"
1973–74 Diana Diana Smythe Main role (15 episodes)
1974 Affairs of the Heart Grace Gracedew Episode: "Grace"
1975 In This House of Brede Philippa TV film
The Morecambe & Wise Show Nell Gwynne Sketch in Christmas Show
1977 Three Piece Suite Various Regular role (6 episodes)
1979 Oresteia Clytemnestra TV miniseries
1980 The Marquise Eloise TV film
1981 Hedda Gabler Hedda Gabler TV film
1982 Play of the Month Rita Allmers Episode: Little Eyolf
Witness for the Prosecution Christine Vole TV film
1983 King Lear Regan TV film
1985 Bleak House Lady Honoria Dedlock TV miniseries
1986 The Worst Witch Miss Constance Hardbroom TV film
1987 A Hazard of Hearts Lady Harriet Vulcan TV film
1989 The Play on One Lydia Episode: "Unexplained Laughter"
Mother Love Helena Vesey TV miniseries
British Academy Television Award for Best Actress
Broadcast Press Guild Award for Best Actress
1992 Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris Mme. Colbert TV film
1993 Road to Avonlea Lady Blackwell Episode: "The Disappearance"
Running Delilah Judith TV film
Screen Two Baroness Frieda von Stangel Episode: "Genghis Cohn"
Nominated – CableACE Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
1994 Genghis Cohn Frieda von Stangel TV film
1995 Zoya Evgenia TV film
The Haunting of Helen Walker Mrs. Grose TV film
1996 The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders Mrs. Golightly TV film
Samson and Delilah Mara TV film
1997 Rebecca Mrs. Danvers TV miniseries
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1998 The American Madame de Bellegarde TV film
1998–2000 The Mrs Bradley Mysteries Mrs. Adela Bradley Main role
2000 In the Beginning Mature Rebeccah TV film
2001 Victoria & Albert Baroness Lehzen TV miniseries
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
2003 Murder in Mind Jill Craig Episode: "Suicide"
Charles II: The Power and the Passion Queen Henrietta Maria TV miniseries
2006 Extras Herself Episode: "Daniel Radcliffe"
2013–17 Game of Thrones Olenna Tyrell 18 episodes
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018)
Nominated – Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series (2013, 2014)
2013 Doctor Who Mrs. Winifred Gillyflower Episode: "The Crimson Horror"
2015, 2017 Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero Mayor Pink Panda (voice) 3 episodes
Detectorists Veronica 6 episodes
2015 You, Me and the Apocalypse Sutton 5 episodes
Professor Branestawm Returns Lady Pagwell TV film
2017 Victoria Duchess of Buccleuch 9 episodes

Theatre Credits

List of selected theatre credits

Year Title Role Notes
1957 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Natella Abashwili Theatre Royal, York Festival
1964 King Lear Cordelia Royal Shakespeare Company (European/US Tour)
1966 Twelfth Night Viola Royal Shakespeare Company
1970 Abelard and Heloise Heloise Wyndham's Theatre, London
1971 Abelard and Heloise Heloise Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York
1972 Macbeth Lady Macbeth Old Vic Theatre, London
1972 Jumpers Dorothy Moore Old Vic Theatre, London
1973 The Misanthrope Célimène Old Vic Theatre, London
1974 Pygmalion Eliza Doolittle Albery Theatre, London
1975 The Misanthrope Célimène St. James Theatre, New York
1978 Night and Day Ruth Carson Phoenix Theatre, London
1982 Colette Colette US national tour
1983 Heartbreak House Lady Ariadne Utterword Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
1985 Little Eyolf Rita Allmers Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London
1985 Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra Chichester Festival Theatre, UK
1986 Wildfire Bess Theatre Royal, Bath & Phoenix Theatre, London
1987 Follies Phyllis Rogers Stone Shaftesbury Theatre, London
1990 Love Letters Melissa Stage Door Theatre, San Francisco
1992 Putting It Together Old Fire Station Theatre, Oxford
1992 Berlin Bertie Rosa Royal Court Theatre, London
1992 Medea Medea Almeida Theatre, London
1993 Medea Medea Wyndham's Theatre, London
1994 Medea Medea Longacre Theatre, New York
1995 Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage National Theatre, London
1996 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Martha Almeida Theatre, London
1997 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Martha Aldwych Theatre, London
1998 Phaedra Phaedra Almeida at the Albery Theatre, London & BAM in Brooklyn
1998 Britannicus Agrippina Almeida at the Albery Theatre, London & BAM in Brooklyn
2001 Humble Boy Flora Humble National Theatre, London
2002 The Hollow Crown International Tour: New Zealand, Australia, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK
2004 Suddenly, Last Summer Violet Venable Albery Theatre, London
2006 Honour Honour Wyndham's Theatre, London
2007 All About My Mother Huma Rojo Old Vic Theatre, London
2008 The Cherry Orchard Ranyevskaya Chichester Festival Theatre, UK
2009 Hay Fever Judith Bliss Chichester Festival Theatre, UK
2011 Pygmalion Mrs. Higgins Garrick Theatre, London
2018 My Fair Lady Mrs. Higgins Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York

Honours, Awards and nominations

Rigg received honorary degrees from the University of Stirling in 1988 and the University of Leeds in 1992.[32]

Rigg was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1988 New Year Honours and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama in the 1994 Birthday Honours.

In 2014, Rigg received the Will Award, presented by the Shakespeare Theatre Company, along with Stacy Keach and John Hurt.[33]

On 25 October 2015, to mark 50 years of Emma Peel, the BFI (British Film Institute) screened an episode of The Avengers followed by an onstage interview with Rigg about her time in the television series.[34]

Year Award Category Work Result
1967 Emmy Award Best Actress in a Drama Series The Avengers Nominated
1968 Nominated
1970 Laurel Award Female New Face The Assassination Bureau Nominated
1971 Tony Award Best Actress in a Play Abelard and Heloise Nominated
1972 Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress (motion picture) The Hospital Nominated
1975 Tony Award Best Actress in a Play The Misanthrope Nominated
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Play Nominated
Emmy Award Best Actress in a TV Movie In This House of Brede Nominated
1990 BAFTA TV Award Best Actress Mother Love Won
Broadcasting Press Guild Award Best Actress Won
1992 Evening Standard Award Best Actress Medea Won
1994 Olivier Award Best Actress Nominated
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Play Nominated
Tony Award Best Actress in a Play Won
1996 CableACE Award Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries Screen Two (1985) – episode "Genghis Cohn" Nominated
Olivier Award Best Actress Mother Courage Nominated
Evening Standard Award Best Actress Mother Courage and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Won
1997 Olivier Award Best Actress Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Nominated
Emmy Award Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie Rebecca Won
1999 Olivier Award Best Actress Britannicus and Phedre Nominated
2000 Special BAFTA Award[35] non-competitive John Steed's partners shared with Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson and Joanna Lumley. The Avengers (and The New Avengers) Awarded
2002 Emmy Award Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie Victoria & Albert Nominated
2013 Critics' Choice Television Award Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series Game of Thrones Nominated
Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Nominated
2014 Critics' Choice Television Award Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series Nominated
Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Nominated
2015 Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Nominated
2018 Drama Desk Award Best Featured Actress in a Musical My Fair Lady Nominated
Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Musical Nominated
Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Game of Thrones Nominated

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