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 19651968 and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones 20132017 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 Nights Dream 1968 Countess Teresa di Vicenzo wife of James Bond in On Her Majestys 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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