Diana Rigg

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE is an English actress. She played Emma Peel in the 60s TV series The Avengers, and plays Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones and Sutton in You, Me and the Apocalypse. She has had an extensive career in film and 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 CBE in 1988 and a Dame in 1994.

Rigg was born in Doncaster, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, now in South Yorkshire to Louis Rigg and Beryl Hilda her father was a railway engineer who had been born in Yorkshire. Between the ages of two months and eight years Rigg lived in Bikaner, India, where her father was employed as a railway executive.

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