Diana Rigg - wikipedia Diana Rigg Dame Diana Rigg DBE Rigg in Diana in 1973 Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg ( 1938 - 07 - 20 ) 20 July 1938 ( age 79 ) Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England Residence Hammersmith, London, England Occupation Actress Years active 1957 -- present Spouse ( s ) Menachem Gueffen ( m. 1973 ; div. 1976 ) Archie Stirling ( m. 1982 ; div. 1990 ) Children Rachael Stirling Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE ( born 20 July 1938 ) is an English actress. She is known for playing Emma Peel in the 1960s TV series The Avengers ( 1965 -- 68 ), 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 ) ; 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 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. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life and education 1.2 Theatre career 1.3 Film and television career 1.4 Personal life 1.5 Honours 2 Filmography 2.1 Film 2.2 Television 3 Theatre 3.1 List of selected theatre credits 4 Awards and nominations 5 References 6 External links Biography Early life and education Rigg was born in Doncaster, which was then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, now in South Yorkshire, 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. Between the ages of two months and eight years Rigg lived in Bikaner, India, where her father was employed as a railway executive. Hindi was her second language in those young years ( and she still today enjoys using a smattering of words and phrases when ordering Indian food ). She was then sent to a boarding school, the Moravian School in Fulneck, near Pudsey. She disliked 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. She trained as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art from 1955 -- 57, where her classmates included Glenda Jackson and Siân Phillips. 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 in the RADA production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the York Festival in 1957. Her role was Natasha Abashwilli. 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 ). 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 ). 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. 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. Film and television career Rigg appeared in the British 1960s television series The Avengers ( 1965 -- 68 ) opposite Patrick McNee as John Steed, playing the secret agent Mrs 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 of Emma Peel 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 famous sex - symbol. 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, but there was still no question of her staying for a third year. Patrick Macnee, her co-star in the series, noted that Rigg had later told him that she considered Macnee and her driver to be her only friends on the set. 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. In 1973 -- 1974, she starred in a short - lived U.S. sitcom called Diana. 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. She appeared as Regan, the king 's treacherous second daughter, in a Granada Television production of King Lear ( 1983 ), which stars 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. In the 1990s, 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. 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, 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. She reprised her role in season four of Game of Thrones, and in July 2014 received another Guest Actress Emmy nomination. 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. 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 ''. She was married to Menachem Gueffen, an Israeli painter, from 1973 until their divorce in 1976, and to Archibald Stirling, a theatrical producer and former officer in the Scots Guards, from 25 March 1982, until their divorce in 1990. With Stirling, Rigg has a daughter, actress Rachael Stirling, who was born in 1977. Rigg has long been an outspoken critic of feminism, saying in 1969, `` Women are in a much stronger position than men. '' 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, being succeeded by James Naughtie when her ten - year term of office ended on 31 July 2008. Michael Parkinson, who first interviewed Rigg in 1972, described her as the most desirable woman he ever met, who `` radiated a lustrous beauty ''. A smoker from the age of 18, Rigg was still smoking 20 cigarettes a day in 2009. 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 ! ' '' 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 was n't sort of... who 's the American duo ? Mike Nichols and Elaine May. It was definitely not that. '' Asked on if she had ever stayed in touch with Macnee ( the interview was published two days before Macnee 's death on June 25, 2015, 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 have n't seen each other for a very, very long time. '' Honours Rigg received honorary degrees from the University of Stirling in 1988 and the University of Leeds in 1992. 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. 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. Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1968 Midsummer Night 's Dream, AA Midsummer Night 's Dream Helena 1969 Mini-Killers Short film 1969 Assassination Bureau, The The Assassination Bureau Sonya Winter 1969 On Her Majesty 's Secret Service Contessa Teresa `` Tracy '' Draco di Vicenzo / Bond 1970 Julius Caesar Portia 1971 Hospital, The The Hospital Barbara Drummond 1973 Theatre of Blood Edwina Lionheart 1977 Little Night Music, AA Little Night Music Countess Charlotte Mittelheim 1981 Great Muppet Caper, The The Great Muppet Caper Lady Holiday 1982 Evil Under the Sun Arlena Marshall Snow White The Evil Queen, Snow White 's evil stepmother 1994 Good Man in Africa, AA Good Man in Africa Chloe Fanshawe 1999 Parting Shots Lisa 2005 Heidi Grandmamma 2006 Painted Veil, The The Painted Veil Mother Superior 2015 The Honourable Rebel Narrator 2017 Breathe Lady Neville Television Year Title Role Notes 1959 Midsummer Night 's Dream, AA Midsummer Night 's Dream Bit part TV film 1963 Sentimental Agent, The The Sentimental Agent Francy Wilde Episode : `` A Very Desirable Plot '' 1964 Festival Adriana Episode : `` The Comedy of Errors '' 1964 Armchair Theatre Anita Fender Episode : `` The Hothouse '' 1965 ITV Play of the Week Bianca Episode : `` Women Beware Women '' 1965 -- 68 Avengers, The 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 ) Affairs of the Heart Grace Gracedew Episode : `` Grace '' 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 Marquise, The The Marquise Eloise TV film 1981 Hedda Gabler Hedda Gabler TV film 1982 Play of the Month Rita Allmers Episode : Little Eyolf 1982 Witness for the Prosecution Christine Vole TV film King Lear Regan TV film 1985 Bleak House Lady Honoria Dedlock TV miniseries 1986 Worst Witch, The The Worst Witch Miss Constance Hardbroom TV film Hazard of Hearts, AA Hazard of Hearts Lady Harriet Vulcan TV film 1989 Play on One, The The Play on One Lydia Episode : `` Unexplained Laughter '' 1989 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 '' 1993 Running Delilah Judith TV film 1993 Screen Two Baroness Frieda von Stangel Episode : `` Genghis Cohn '' Nominated -- CableACE Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie 1995 Zoya Evgenia TV film 1995 Haunting of Helen Walker, The The Haunting of Helen Walker Mrs. Grose TV film Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders, The 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 American, The The American Madame de Bellegarde TV film 1998 -- 2000 Mrs Bradley Mysteries, The 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 '' 2003 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 ) 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 2015 You, Me and the Apocalypse Sutton 5 episodes 2015 Professor Branestawm Returns Lady Pagwell TV film 2015, 2017 Detectorists Veronica 6 episodes 2017 Victoria Duchess of Buccleuch 9 episodes Theatre 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 City 1972 Macbeth Lady Macbeth Old Vic Theatre, London 1972 Jumpers Dorothy Moore National Theatre, London Pygmalion Eliza Doolittle Albery Theatre, London 1978 Night and Day Ruth Carson Phoenix Theatre, London Misanthrope, The The Misanthrope Célimène National Theatre, London Misanthrope, The The Misanthrope Célimène St. James Theatre, New York City 1982 Colette Colette US national tour Heartbreak House Lady Ariadne Utter word Theatre Royal Haymarket, London 1985 Little Eyolf Rita Allmers Lyric Theatre, London 1985 Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra Chichester Festival Theatre, UK 1986 Wildfire Bess Theatre Royal, Bath & Phoenix Theatre, London 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 City 1995 Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage National Theatre, London 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, New York 1998 Britannicus Agrippina Almeida at the Albery Theatre, London & BAM in Brooklyn, New York 2001 Humble Boy Flora Humble National Theatre, London & Chichester Festival Theatre, UK 2002 The Hollow Crown International Tour : New Zealand, Australia, Stratford - upon - Avon, UK 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 Cherry Orchard, The 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 City Awards and nominations Year Award Work Result 1967 Emmy Award Best Actress in a Drama Series The Avengers Nominated 1968 Emmy Award Best Actress in a Drama Series The Avengers 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 Tony Award Best Actress in a Play The Misanthrope Nominated Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Play The Misanthrope Nominated Emmy Award Best Actress in a TV Movie In This House of Brede Nominated 1990 BAFTA TV Award Best Actress Mother Love Won 1990 Broadcasting Press Guild Award Best Actress Mother Love Won 1992 Evening Standard Award Best Actress Medea Won 1994 Olivier Award Best Actress Medea Nominated 1994 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Play Medea Nominated 1994 Tony Award Best Actress in a Play Medea Won 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 1997 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 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 Game of Thrones Nominated 2014 Critics ' Choice Television Award Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series Game of Thrones Nominated Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Game of Thrones Nominated 2015 Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Game of Thrones Nominated References ^ Jump up to : Meet... Dame Diana Rigg, BBC South Yorkshire. Retrieved 14 July 2006. ^ Jump up to : Nigel Farndale ( 17 August 2008 ). `` Diana Rigg : her story ''. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 August 2011. Jump up ^ `` dianarigg.net career : theatre ''. dianarigg.net. 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