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Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg
Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in in 1994 for services to drama.
Rigg appeared in numerous TV series and films, playing Helena in
Early life and education
Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was born on 20 July 1938 in Doncaster, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now in South Yorkshire),[1] to Louis and Beryl Hilda Rigg (née Helliwell). She had a brother four years her senior.[2] Her father was born in Yorkshire, worked in engineering, and moved to India to work for the railway to take advantage of the career opportunities there.[3] Her mother moved back to England for Rigg's birth. Between the ages of two months and eight years, Rigg lived in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India,[1] where her father worked his way up to become a railway executive in the Bikaner State Railway.[3] She spoke Hindi as her second language in those years.[4]
She was later sent back to England to attend a boarding school,
Theatre career
Rigg's career in film, television and the theatre was wide-ranging, including roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1959 and 1967, including Gwendolen in Jean Anouilh's Becket, Cordelia in King Lear and Adriana in The Comedy of Errors.([9]).[10] Her professional debut was as Natasha Abashwilli in the RADA production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the York Festival in 1957.[11]
She returned to the stage in the
In 1982, she appeared in the musical Colette, based on the life of the
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.[15]
She appeared in 2008 in
In February 2018, she returned to Broadway in the non-singing role of Mrs Higgins in My Fair Lady. She commented, "I think it's so special. When I was offered Mrs Higgins, I thought it was just such a lovely idea."[17] She received her fourth Tony nomination for the role.[18]
Film and television career
From 1965 to 1968, Rigg appeared in the British 1960s television series The Avengers (1961–69) opposite Patrick Macnee as John Steed, playing the secret agent Emma Peel in 51 episodes. She replaced 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 and was not comfortable in her position as a sex symbol.[19] In an interview with The Guardian in 2019, Rigg stated that "becoming a sex symbol overnight had shocked (her)".[6] She also did not like the way that she was treated by production company ABC Weekend TV. For her second series, she held out for a pay rise from £150 a week to £450;[20] 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]... 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."[6] 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.[21]
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.[22] In 1973–74, she starred in a short-lived US sitcom called Diana.[23] 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 a 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.[24]
She appeared as Regan, the king's treacherous second daughter, in a
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,[28] her co-star in Theatre of Blood.
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 which she played a nun.[29]
In 2013, she appeared in an episode of
That same year Rigg was cast in a recurring role in the
During autumn 2019, Rigg was filming the role of Mrs Pumphrey at
Personal life
In the 1960s, Rigg lived for eight years with director
Rigg was a patron of
Michael Parkinson, who first interviewed Rigg in 1972, described her as the most desirable woman he ever met and who "radiated a lustrous beauty".[43] A smoker from the age of 18, Rigg was still smoking 20 cigarettes (one pack)[44] a day in 2009.[45] By December 2017, she had stopped smoking after serious illness led to heart surgery, a cardiac ablation, two months earlier. She joked later, "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!'"[46]
In a June 2015 interview with the website The A.V. Club, Rigg talked about her chemistry with Patrick Macnee on The Avengers despite their 16-year age difference: "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 professionally 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." Asked if she had stayed in touch with Macnee (the interview was published two days before Macnee's death and decades after they were reunited 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."[47]
Rigg was a devout Christian.[48]
Death
Rigg died at her daughter's home in London on 10 September 2020, at the age of 82.[49] Her daughter, Rachael Stirling, stated that Rigg died of cancer, which she had been diagnosed with in March that year.[50] [51][52][53]
Honours
In 1999, Rigg was appointed as the Cameron Mackintosh Visiting professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford; it was a post which she held for one year.[54]
In 2014, Rigg received the Will Award, presented by the Shakespeare Theatre Company, along with Stacy Keach and John Hurt.[55]
On 25 October 2015, to mark 50 years of Emma Peel, the British Film Institute screened an episode of The Avengers; this was followed by an onstage interview with Rigg about her time in the television series.[56]
Commonwealth honours
Country | Date | Appointment | Post-nominal letters | Ref. |
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United Kingdom | 1988 | Commander of the Order of the British Empire | CBE | [57][58] |
1994 | Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire | DBE | [57][59] |
Scholastic
- Chancellor, visitor, governor, rector and fellowships
Location | Dates | School | Position | Ref. |
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Scotland | 1998–2008 | University of Stirling | Chancellor | [60] |
England | 1999–2000 | University of Oxford | Cameron Mackintosh Visiting professor of Contemporary Theatre | [61] |
1999–2020 | St Catherine's College, Oxford | Fellow | [62] |
Honorary degrees
Location | Date | School | Degree | Ref. |
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Scotland | 4 November 1988 | University of Stirling | Doctor of the University (D.Univ) |
[63] |
England | 1992 | University of Leeds | Doctor of Literature (D.Litt.) | [64] |
1995 | University of Nottingham | [65] | ||
1996 | London South Bank University | [66] |
Credits
Theatre
Selected.
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1957 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Natella Abashwili | Theatre Royal, York Festival | [69] |
1964 | King Lear | Cordelia | Royal Shakespeare Company (European/US Tour) | [70] |
1966 | Twelfth Night | Viola | Royal Shakespeare Company | [71] |
1970 | Abelard and Heloise | Heloise | Wyndham's Theatre, London | [72] |
1971 | Brooks Atkinson Theatre , New York
|
[73] | ||
1972 | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | Old Vic Theatre , London
|
[74] |
Jumpers | Dorothy Moore | [75] | ||
1973 | The Misanthrope | Célimène | [76] | |
1974 | Pygmalion | Eliza Doolittle | Albery Theatre, London | [77] |
1975 | The Misanthrope | Célimène | St. James Theatre, New York | [78] |
1978 | Night and Day | Ruth Carson | Phoenix Theatre , London
|
[79] |
1982 | Colette | Colette | US national tour | [80] |
1983 | Heartbreak House | Lady Ariadne Utterword | Theatre Royal Haymarket, London | [81] |
1985 | Little Eyolf | Rita Allmers | Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith , London
|
[82] |
Antony and Cleopatra | Cleopatra | Chichester Festival Theatre, UK | [83] | |
1986 | Wildfire | Bess | Theatre Royal, Bath & Phoenix Theatre, London | [84] |
1987 | Follies | Phyllis Rogers Stone | Shaftesbury Theatre, London | [76] |
1990 | Love Letters | Melissa | Stage Door Theatre, San Francisco | [85] |
1992 | Putting It Together | Old Fire Station Theatre , Oxford
|
[86] | |
Berlin Bertie | Rosa | Royal Court Theatre, London | [87] | |
Medea | Medea | Almeida Theatre, London | [88] | |
1993 | Wyndham's Theatre, London | [76] | ||
1994 | Longacre Theatre, New York | [89] | ||
1995 | Mother Courage and Her Children | Mother Courage | National Theatre, London | [90] |
1996 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Martha | Almeida Theatre, London | [76][91] |
1997 | [92] | |||
1998 | Phaedra | Phaedra | Almeida at the Albery Theatre, London & BAM in Brooklyn | [84] |
Britannicus | Agrippina | [84] | ||
2001 | Humble Boy | Flora Humble | National Theatre, London | [93] |
2002 | The Hollow Crown | International Tour: New Zealand, Australia, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK | [94] | |
2004 | Suddenly, Last Summer
|
Violet Venable | Albery Theatre, London | [95] |
2006 | Honour | Honour | Wyndham's Theatre, London | [96] |
2007 | All About My Mother | Huma Rojo | Old Vic Theatre, London | [97] |
2008 | The Cherry Orchard | Ranyevskaya | Chichester Festival Theatre, UK | [98] |
2009 | Hay Fever | Judith Bliss | [99] | |
2011 | Pygmalion | Mrs. Higgins | Garrick Theatre, London | [100] |
2018 | My Fair Lady | Mrs. Higgins | Vivian Beaumont Theatre , New York
|
[101] |
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1966 | Diadem aka Der Goldene Schlussel | short film shot in Germany | [102][103] | |
1968 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Helena | [104] | |
1969 | Minikillers | short film shot in Spain | [105] | |
The Assassination Bureau | Sonya Winter | [104] | ||
On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo | [104] | ||
1970 | Julius Caesar | Portia
|
[104] | |
1971 | The Hospital | Barbara Drummond | [104] | |
1973 | Theatre of Blood | Edwina Lionheart | [104] | |
1975 | In This House of Brede | Sister Philippa | [104] | |
1977 | A Little Night Music | Countess Charlotte Mittelheim | [104] | |
1981 | The Great Muppet Caper | Lady Holiday | [104] | |
1982 | Evil Under the Sun | Arlena Stuart Marshall | [104] | |
1987 | Snow White | The Evil Queen
|
[104] | |
1993 | Genghis Cohn | Frieda von Stangel | ||
1994 | A Good Man in Africa | Chloe Fanshawe | [104] | |
1999 | Parting Shots | Lisa | [104] | |
2005 | Heidi | Grandmamma | [104] | |
2006 | The Painted Veil | Mother Superior | [104] | |
2015 | The Honourable Rebel | Narrator | [104] | |
2017 | Breathe | Lady Neville | [104] | |
2021 | Last Night in Soho | Ms. Alexandra Collins | Posthumous release | [106] |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1961 | Ondine | Bit part | Televised stage performance, Aldwych theatre | [107] |
1963 | The Sentimental Agent | Francy Wilde | episode: "A Very Desirable Plot" | [76] |
1964 | Festival | Adriana | episode: "The Comedy of Errors" | [104] |
Armchair Theatre | Anita Fender | episode: "The Hothouse" | [104] | |
1965 | ITV Play of the Week | Bianca | episode: "Women Beware Women" | [104] |
1965–1968 | The Avengers | Emma Peel | 51 episodes | [104] |
1970 | ITV Saturday Night Theatre | Liz Jardine | episode: "Married Alive" | [104] |
1973 | The Diana Rigg Show | Diana Smythe | unaired pilot | [108] |
1973–1974 | Diana | Diana Smythe | 15 episodes | [108] |
1974 | Affairs of the Heart | Grace Gracedew | episode: "Grace" | [104] |
1975 | In This House of Brede | Philippa | TV film | [104] |
The Morecambe & Wise Show | Nell Gwynne | sketch in Christmas show | [104] | |
1977 | Three Piece Suite | Various | 6 episodes | [104] |
1979 | Oresteia | Clytemnestra | mini-series | [104] |
1980 | The Marquise | Eloise | TV film | [109] |
1981 | Hedda Gabler | Hedda Gabler | [104] | |
1982 | Play of the Month | Rita Allmers | episode: Little Eyolf | [104] |
Witness for the Prosecution
|
Christine Vole | TV film | [104] | |
1983 | King Lear | Regan | [76] | |
1985 | Bleak House | Lady Honoria Dedlock | mini-series | [104] |
1986 | The Worst Witch | Miss Constance Hardbroom | TV film | [104] |
1987 | A Hazard of Hearts | Lady Harriet Vulcan | [104] | |
1989 | The Play on One | Lydia | episode: "Unexplained Laughter" | [104] |
Mother Love | Helena Vesey | mini-series British Academy Television Award for Best Actress Broadcast Press Guild Award for Best Actress |
[104] | |
1989-2003 | Mystery! | Host | Anthology series | |
1992 | Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris | Mme. Colbert | TV film | [104] |
1993 | Road to Avonlea | Lady Blackwell | episode: "The Disappearance" | [110] |
Running Delilah | Judith | TV film | [104] | |
Screen Two | Baroness Frieda von Stangel | episode: "Genghis Cohn" Nominated – CableACE Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie |
[104] | |
1995 | Zoya | Evgenia | TV film | [104] |
The Haunting of Helen Walker | Mrs. Grose | [104] | ||
1996 | The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
|
Mrs. Golightly | [104] | |
Samson and Delilah
|
Mara | [104] | ||
1997 | Rebecca | Mrs. Danvers | mini-series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
|
[104] |
1998 | The American
|
Madame de Bellegarde | TV film | [104] |
1998–2000 | The Mrs Bradley Mysteries | Adela Bradley | 5 episodes | [104] |
2000 | In the Beginning | Mature Rebeccah | TV film | [104] |
2001 | Victoria & Albert | Baroness Lehzen | mini-series Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
|
[104] |
2003 | Murder in Mind | Jill Craig | episode: "Suicide" | [111] |
Charles II: The Power and the Passion | Queen Henrietta Maria | mini-series | [104] | |
2006 | Extras | Herself | episode: "Daniel Radcliffe" | [112] |
2013–2017 | 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) |
[113] |
2013 | Doctor Who | Mrs. Winifred Gillyflower | episode: "The Crimson Horror" | [104] |
2015; 2017 | Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero | Mayor Pink Panda | Voice, 3 episodes | [114] |
Detectorists | Veronica | 6 episodes | [104] | |
2015 | You, Me and the Apocalypse | Sutton | 5 episodes | [115] |
Professor Branestawm Returns | Lady Pagwell | TV film | [116] | |
2017 | Victoria | Duchess of Buccleuch | 9 episodes | [104] |
2017 | A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
|
Herself/narrator | Christmas special | [117] |
2019 | The Snail and the Whale | Narrator | short TV film | [118] |
2020 | All Creatures Great and Small | Mrs. Pumphrey | 2 episodes | [119] |
Black Narcissus | Mother Dorothea | Posthumous release | [119] |
Awards and nominations
See also
- No Turn Unstoned, a collection of scathing theatrical reviews collected by Rigg, first published in 1982.
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External links
- Diana Rigg at the British Film Institute
- Diana Rigg at the Internet Broadway Database
- Diana Rigg at IMDb
- Diana Rigg at Rotten Tomatoes
- Diana Rigg at AllMovie
- Diana Rigg at the TCM Movie Database
- Portraits of Diana Rigg at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Diana Rigg discography at Discogs