Diana Rigg - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	20-July-1938
Place of Birth	Doncaster (Yorkshire, England)
Nationality	United Kingdom
Also know as	Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Dame Diana Rigg, Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE, Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, Patrick & Diana
Profession	Actor
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, DBE is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for the role of Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers, which she appeared in from 1965 to 1968. She has also had an extensive career in the theatre both in Britain and America. Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in The Caucasian Chalk Circle and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. In 1971, she made her Broadway debut in Abelard & Heloise. She played Medea in 1992 at the Almeida and Wyndham's in London and again in New York, where she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. On television, she starred in the 1989 BBC miniseries Mother Love, for which she won a BAFTA Award for Best Actress and the 1997 adaptation of Rebecca, which won her an Emmy Award. Her film roles include, Helena, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Countess Teresa di Vicenzo in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Lady Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper and Arlene Marshall in Evil Under the Sun. Rigg was made a CBE in 1988 and a Dame in 1994. She is considered a sex symbol and an icon of 1960s feminism.

Awards by Diana Rigg

Check all the awards nominated and won by Diana Rigg.

2014

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series	Game of Thrones

2013

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series	Game of Thrones And Now His Watch is Ended

2002

Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie	Victoria & Albert For playing \"Baroness Lehzen\"

2000

British Academy Television Special Award	Honored for : The Avengers, The New Avengers

1999

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress	Britannicus","Phedre

1997

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

Honored for : Rebecca

(For playing Mrs. Danvers)

Nominations 1997 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie	Rebecca For playing \"Mrs. Danvers\"

1996

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress	Mother Courage and Her Children

1994

Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play

Honored for : Medea

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress	Medea
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play	Medea
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play	Medea

1990

British Academy Television Award for Best Leading Actress

Honored for : Mother Love

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Leading Actress	Mother Love

1975

Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play	The Misanthrope
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play	The Misanthrope
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress In A Special Program, Drama or Comedy	In This House of Brede

1972

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture	The Hospital

1971

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play	Abelard and Heloise

1968

Nominations 1968 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series	The Avengers
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series	The Avengers

1967

Nominations 1967 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series	The Avengers

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