Diana Rigg

Few performers have aged into greatness the way Diana Rigg did. She could have coasted forever on Emma Peel, the rare sixties icon who was genuinely cool rather than merely decorative, but she kept raising the stakes: a Tony for Medea, a damehood, and then, in her seventies, the deliciously acid Olenna Tyrell, stealing Game of Thrones from actors fifty years her junior. What I admire most is her refusal to be sentimental about any of it; she treated glamour as a tool, not an identity. When she died in 2020, British acting lost its sharpest tongue and one of its most disciplined craftsmen.

Name (English)

Diana Rigg

Name (Japanese)

ダイアナ・リグ

Reading

だいあな・りぐ

Born

July 20, 1938 – September 10, 2020

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Tiger

Origin

Doncaster, United Kingdom

Occupation

television actor / film actor / university teacher / stage actor / actor

Awards & achievements

• 1994 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
• 1988 Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
• 1992 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress
• 1996 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B0

Tags

• television actor
• film actor
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.