Who is Diana Rigg

Diana Rigg

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1959: "King Lear" - Attendant

1959: "Coriolanus" - Roman Citizen

1959: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Attendant

1959: "Othello" - Citizen

1959: "All's Well that Ends Well" - Lady

1958: "The Passing of the Third Floor Back" - Vivian

1957: "The Fruits of Enlightenment" - Anna Pavlovna-Zvezdintseva

1957: "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" - Natasha Abashwilli

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1966: "Twelfth Night" - Viola
1964: "King Lear" - Cordelia
1963/4: "The Comedy of Errors" - Adriana
1963: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Helena
1963: "The Physicists" - Nurse Monika Stettler
1962: "King Lear" - Cordelia
1962: "The Comedy of Errors" - Adriana
1962: "Macbeth" - Lady Macduff
1962: "The Taming of the Shrew" - Bianca
1962: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Helena
1962: "The Art of Seduction" - President de Tourvel
1961: "The Taming of the Shrew" - Bianca
1961: "Becket" - Gwendolen
1961: "The Devils" - Phillipe Trincant
1961: "Ondine" - Violanta, Second Ondine
1960: "The Duchess of Malfi" - Lady
1960: "The Winter's Tale" - Lady
1960: "Troilus & Cressida" - Andromache
1960: "The Taming of the Shrew" - Wench
1960: "The Merchant of Venice" - Lady
1960: "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" - Lady

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1987: "Follies" - Phyllis Stone
1986: "Wildfire" - Bess Garrison
1985: "Antony and Cleopatra" - Cleopatra
1985: "Little Eyolf" - Rita Allmers
1983: "Heartbreak House" - Hesione Hushabye
1982: "Colette" - Colette
1978: "Night and Day" - Ruth Carson
1978: "The Guardsman" - Ilona
1976: "Phaedra Britannica" - Phaedra
1975: "The Misanthrope" - Celimene
1974: "Pygmalion" - Eliza Doolittle
1973: "The Misanthrope" - Celimene
1973: "Jumpers" - Dottie Moore
1972/3: "Macbeth" - Lady Macbeth
1972: "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" - Hippolita
1972: "Jumpers" - Dottie Moore
1970/1: "Abelard and Heloise" - Heloise

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Diana Rigg as The Queen of Sin
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Diana Rigg's height is five feet eight and a half inches.

Diana was a guest star in a 2003 episode of the BBC psychological thriller 'Murder in Mind.' She played the character Jill Craig, an apparent suicide victim.

In October 2003, Diana won a 35,000 libel case against two British newspapers that had claimed she was 'an embittered woman who was retiring from acting.'

Diana has one brother called Hugh. He is four years younger.

The actress Elizabeth Shepherd was initially selected to play Steed's new partner following the departure of Honor Blackman in 'The Avengers.' Despite the fact that some filming had already taken place, when the directors saw Diana in 'Armchair Theatre' she was chosen instead.

In a BBC radio interview, Diana said that she loved to go trout and salmon fishing in her spare time.

Diana received a BAFTA Special Award in 2000 for her role as Emma Peel in 'The Avengers'. It was shared jointly with the three other actresses who starred in the show: Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson and Joanna Lumley.

Diana was made Chancellor of Stirling University in October 1998. She is the first woman to hold the post.

She won a Tony Award for her performance in the 1994 Broadway production of 'Medea'.

She has received two Honorary Degrees, one from Leeds University and one from Stirling University.

Diana was made a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 1987.

In the early 1970's, Diana Rigg had her own comedy series called 'Diana'. Only 13 episodes were ever aired.

In 1997, Diana received an EMMY for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Mini Series or Movie for her performance as Mrs Danvers in the ITV production of 'Rebecca'.

The name Emma Peel, her character in 'The Avengers', is a pun on the phrase 'man appeal'.

She is the mother of 'Tripping the Velvet' star Rachael Stirling.

Diana Rigg became a Dame of the British Empire in 1994 for her outstanding contribution to theatre and film.

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2008: "The Cherry Orchard" - Ranyevskaya
2007: "All About My Mother" - Huma Rojo
2006: "Honour" - Honor Spencer
2004: "Suddenly, Last Summer" - Violet Venable
2002: "The Hollow Crown" - Various
2001: "The Women" National Theatre (Old Vic)
2001: "Humble Boy" - Flora Humble
1999: "Britannicus" - Agrippina
1999: "Phedre" - Phedre
1998: "Britannicus" - Agrippina
1998: "Phedre" - Phedre
1997: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" - Martha
1996: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" - Martha
1995/6: "Mother Courage" - Anna Fierling, Mother Courage
1994: "Medea" Medea
1993: "Medea" Medea
1992: "Medea" Medea
1992: "Berlin Bertie" - Rosa
1992: "Putting It Together"
1991: "All for Love" - Cleopatra
1990: "Love Letters" - Melissa Gardner

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2006: "The Painted Veil" - Mother Superior.
2005: "Heidi" - Grandmamma.
1998: "Parting Shots" - Lisa.
1994: "Good Man in Africa" - Chloe Fanshawe.
1994: "Running Delilah" - Judith.
1987: "Snow White" - Evil Queen.
1982: ""Evil Under the Sun - Arlena Stuart Marshall.
1981: "The Great Muppet Caper" - Lady Holiday.
1977: "A Little Night Music" - Countess Charlotte Mittelheim.
1973: "Theatre of Blood" - Edwina Lionheart.
1971: "The Hospital" - Barbara Drummond.
1970: "Julius Caesar" - Portia.
1969: "Mini-Killers/Das Diadem"
1969: "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" - Teresa (Tracy) di Vincenzo.
1969: "The Assassination Bureau" - Sonya Winter.
1969: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Helena.

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Diana Rigg: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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2003: "Charles II: The Power and the Passion" - Queen Henrietta Maria
2003: "Murder in Mind" ('Suicide') - Jill Craig
2001: "Victoria and Albert" - Baroness Lehzen
2000: "In the Beginning" - Mature Rebeccah
1999: "Mrs. Bradley Mysteries" - Adela Bradley
1998: "The American" - Madame de Bellegarde
1998: "Mrs. Bradley Mysteries" - Adela Bradley
1997: "Rebecca" - Mrs. Danvers
1996: "Samson and Delilah" - Mara
1996: "Moll Flanders" - Mrs. Golightly
1995: "The Haunting of Helen Walker" - Mrs. Grose
1995: "Zoya" - Evgenia
1994: "Genghis Cohn" - Baroness Frieda von Stangel
1993: "The Road to Avonlea" ('The Disappearance') - Lady Edith Blackwell
1992: "Mrs. 'arris Goes to Paris" - Madame Colbert
1989: "Mother Love" - Helena Vesey
1989: "Unexplained Laughter" - Lydia
1987: "A Hazard of Hearts" - Harriet Vulcan
1986: "The Worst Witch" - Miss Hardbroom
1985: "Bleak House" - Lady Honoria Dedlock
1983: "King Lear" - Regan
1982: "Witness for the Prosecution" - Christine Vole
1982: "Little Eyolf" - Rita Allmers
1981: "Hedda Gabler" - Hedda Gabler
1980: "The Marquise" - Eloise de Kestournel
1979: "The Serpent Son" - Klytemnestra
1977: "Three Piece Suite" - Various Roles
1975: "In This House of Brede" - Philippa Talbot
1974: "Affairs of the Heart" - Grace Gracedew
1973: "Diana" - Diana Smythe
1970: "Married Alive" - Liz Jardine
1969: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Helena
1965-67: "The Avengers" - Emma Peel
1965: "Women Beware Women" - Bianca
1964: "The Hothouse" - Anita Fender
1964: "The Comedy of Errors" - Adriana
1963: "The Sentimental Agent" ('A Very Desirable Plot') - Francy Wilde
1961: "Ondine" - Violanta

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