Diana Rigg

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Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg , DBE (born July 20, 1938 in Doncaster , England ) is a British actress . She became internationally known for her roles as Emma Peel in the series With Umbrella, Charm and Melon , as Teresa di Vicenco in James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service and as Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones .

life and career

Childhood, school and education

Her parents were the railway engineer Louis Rigg and his wife Beryl Hilda. When Diana was two months old, the family moved from Yorkshire to Bikaner , British India , where her father had accepted a position as an executive with a railroad company. Diana Rigg grew up in India until she was eight. Therefore she speaks a little Hindi .

From the age of nine she attended the Fulneck School near Pudsey in her native Yorkshire, a boarding school of the Moravian Brethren . From 1955 to 1957 she studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art . Her classmates there included Glenda Jackson and Siân Phillips . She made her professional theater debut in 1957 at the York Festival as Natasha Abashwilli in the Brecht play " The Caucasian Chalk Circle ".

TV and cinema roles

Diana Rigg became known worldwide from 1965 in the British television series With Umbrella, Charm and Melon . At the side of Patrick Macnee she played the sharp-tongued, powerful, emancipated and often leather- clad Emma Peel . Her interpretation of the role was the model for numerous imitators. The independent, self-confident Companions in Doctor Who are regarded as the producers' answer to Emma Peel's success.

Her talent was hardly shown to advantage in the cinema. Best known is her role as the wife of James Bond in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), which was originally considered by the audience as a disappointment within the film series about the British secret agent and was only recognized years later by critics and fan base. In 1971, a scene in the film Hospital caused a scandal in which she was supposed to heal a supposedly impotent chief physician through verbal humiliation. The nude and sex scene was then cut to a child-free version . In 1982 she starred in the Agatha Christie film adaptation of Evil Under the Sun alongside Peter Ustinov .

In the British cult series Doctor Who , Rigg was first seen in 2013 in an episode written by Mark Gatiss alongside her daughter Rachael Stirling ; they played mother and daughter. Also from 2013 she appeared in the multi-award-winning fantasy series Game of Thrones from season three as Lady Olenna Tyrell. For her performance she has been nominated for the Emmy for best guest actress several times .

theatre

She was more successful on the theater stage, in both classic and modern roles, for which she has received numerous awards. From 1959 to 1964 she was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company , from 1967 Rigg then worked as a freelance Associate Artist of the RSC with the Royal Shakespeare Company . From 1971 she was a member of the National Theater of Great Britain . She is one of the first actresses to appear naked on a stage (in the play Abelard and Heloise, 1970). In 1979 she was hailed as "Britain's Best Actress" in a cover story by Time Magazine. In 1982 she published the book No Turn Unstoned, a collection of the worst (and worst-written) theater reviews and a settlement with the critics who often played badly on her.

Personal

Rigg was a board member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and from 1998 to 2008 Chancellor of the University of Stirling . In 1999 she was Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theater at the University of Oxford . In 1987 she received the title "Commander of the Order of the British Empire ", in 1994 she became Queen Elizabeth II. To Dame Commander appointed.

Diana Rigg lives in Chelsea and in a French village in the Landes department . She was married twice, first to the Israeli painter Menachem Gueffen (1973–1976) and later to the Scottish landowner Archibald Stirling (1982–1990). Her daughter Rachael Stirling (* 1977), who is also an actress, comes from the relationship with the latter .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Junklewitz: Doctor Who: Diana Rigg comes to visit. Serienjunkies.de , January 4, 2012, accessed on July 15, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Dame Diana Rigg and Rachael Stirling to Star in New Series! BBC , July 2, 2012, accessed July 15, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: Game of Thrones: Start date and 14 new actors for season 3. Serienjunkies.de, July 14, 2012, accessed on July 15, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Entry at filmreference.com
  5. ↑ Olivier Winners 1997 listing ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.olivierawards.com
  6. ↑ Olivier Winners 1999 listing ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.olivierawards.com
  7. ↑ http://www.broadcastingpressguild.org/bpgawards/1989-2/
  8. ↑ University website (accessed on July 20, 2013) ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.externalrelations.stir.ac.uk
  9. ↑ biography (accessed on July 20, 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Rigg, Diana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rigg, Enid Diana Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Doncaster , England , UK