(Dame) Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg net worth is $10 Million
(Dame) Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg salary is $1.2 Million
(Dame) Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg Wiki Biography
(Dame) Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was born on 20 July 1938, in Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England to Beryl Hilda and Louis Rigg, and is best known as the actress who played Tracy in the Bond film ‘‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’’, and Olenna Tyrell in the TV series ‘‘Game of Thrones’’.
So just how rich is Diana Rigg as of early 2018? According to authoritative sources, this actress has a net worth of $10 million, with her wealth being accumulated from her almost five decades- long career in the previously mentioned field.
Diana Rigg Net Worth $10 Million
Rigg spent some time during her formative years in India, and speaks Hindi as her second language. She attended Moravian School, located in Fulneck and went on to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Prior to acting in movies and on television, Diana began in theatre, and made her debut as Natasha Abashwilli in ‘‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’’ at the York Festival in 1957. She made her silver screen debut with a minor role in ‘‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’’ in 1959, and went on to work on several television series, in which she’d usually get support roles and remain for one or two episodes. In 1965, she began portraying Emma Peel / Lola in ‘‘The Avengers’’, which was nominated for four Primetime Emmy awards, and which won a Special Award given by BAFTA. Then in 1968, she worked on one more version of ‘‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’’, playing Helena, one of the major characters. In the next year, Rigg starred in ‘‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’’, a movie from the James Bond franchise – acting in such a prominent project played a significant role in Rigg’s career, especially as the film was nominated for a Golden Globe award, altogether boosting her net worth.
In 1973, Diana began playing the main character of ‘‘Diana’’, Diana Smythe; the US comedy series received a generally positive response which raised her international profile. In 1977 she played one of the main characters in ‘‘A Little Night Music’’, side by side with Elizabeth Taylor; the movie won an Oscar, despite receiving mediocre reviews from the critics. As of 1985, she starred in ‘‘Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House’’, which won three awards including BAFTA TV Award and was additionally nominated for more. Two years after that, she landed another major role, in ‘‘Snow White’’, and worked side by side with Billy Barty and Sarah Patterson. Remaining busy in the following period, Rigg worked on numerous projects, most importantly in ‘‘Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris’’, which received a generally positive response from the audience in 1992, and in 1998 she starred in ‘‘The Mrs Bradley Mysteries’’. In 2006, Rigg appeared in ‘‘The Painted Veil’’, a critically appraised drama romance movie that won a Golden Globe Award and 10 more, again boosting her net worth.
Diana then went on hiatus for several years, until reappearing in 2013 as a guest star in an episode of the long-running UK TV series ‘‘Doctor Who’’, and during the same year began working on ‘‘Game Of Thrones’’, a critically acclaimed drama mystery television series, in which she got the part of Lady Olenna Tyrell. Her acting skills in the series received considerable critical acclaim, and her performance earned her several nominations including Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. When it comes to her latest projects, Rigg joined the cast of ‘‘Victoria’’, a history drama television series that achieved success with the audience. To conclude, Rigg has had more than 60 acting gigs.
In her private life, Diana was married to Menachem Gueffen from 1973 until 1976, and later on to Archibald Stirling, with whom she has a daughter, Rachel, born in 1977. Diana has been openly critical of feminism for years now; she is a patron of International Care & Relief.
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie (1997), Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play (1994), British Academy Television Award for Best Actress (1990), British Academy Television Special Award (2000)
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2015), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2014), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2013), Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (...
Movies
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (TV Movie, 2017), Victoria (2017), The Painted Veil (2006), The Last King (TV Mini-Series, 2003), Masterpiece Mystery (1980),Detectorists (TV Series, 2015-2017), You, Me and the Apocalypse (TV Mini-Series, 2015), The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (1998-2000)
TV Shows
The Jonathan Ross Show (2015), Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2014), Edinburgh Nights (2014), Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (Documentary, 2018), The South Bank Show (1978-2003)
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Deep husky voice
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I don't want to retire. I never want to retire. What's the point of it?
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[on the possibility of remarriage in old age]: I'm very good at living with somebody. I think my ex-husband would accede to this because I tend to please. I come from a generation where, when my dad arrived and parked the car, [my mother] would rush upstairs and put some lipstick on, which I think is so charming. I'm wasted living by myself, in a sense. But don't anybody, please, take that as an invitation to step forward.
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I don't know how your Guardian readers are going to take this, but I've had a housekeeper for 24 years [as of 2014]. So I'm well looked after. I'm a deeply spoiled woman. I make no apologies about it at all. I think they think: "Oh, poor woman, she's living on her own." Not a bit of it. My bed is turned down every night.
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I think women of my age are still attractive. Men of my age aren't. They've got their cojones halfway to their knees. They have the same descent as boobs.
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The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go. If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic.
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Look at me. I'm a dame and I'm a chancellor.
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The leather catsuit I wore in The Avengers (1961) was a total nightmare; it took a good 45 minutes to get unzipped to go to the loo. It was like struggling in and out of a wet-suit. Once I got into the jersey catsuits, they were very easy to wear but you had to watch for baggy knees; there is nothing worse. I got a lot of very odd fan mail while I was in that show, but my mum used to enjoy replying to it. Some of the men who wrote to me must have been a bit startled because she would offer really motherly advice. I would get a letter from a teenage boy, say, who was overexcited and my mother would write back saying: "My daughter is far too old for you and what you really need is a good run around the block.".
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Society was so much more prudish in the 1960s. In one episode of The Avengers (1961), I played a belly dancer and I had to stick a jewel in my navel because the Americans wouldn't tolerate them. In those days, you didn't flash the boobs at all. What you did do to look glamorous was jack the boobs up and probably wear something quite low-cut.
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I think I was quite daring. I was once escorted out of a restaurant because I was wearing a trouser suit. It wasn't considered good breeding for a woman to go around in trousers after 6:00 pm, especially in smart restaurants and bars such as the Connaught Hotel, which served the best cocktails.
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In those days, trousers were appallingly cut for women so I used to go to a gentlemen's tailor to have them made. Nowadays you can look at some quite highly priced clothes and be astonished at how badly they are finished. But then, people don't look for that any more, it's only old bags like me that do. When I need to look smart, I go for Armani because he's just absolutely brilliant at tailoring. I always dress for myself, not men or other women. I'm well aware of them though - you get the sweep of the eye up and down and I think: "You poor thing, are you so competitive that you have to measure yourself against everyone else?". It's so pathetic.
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I didn't like my Bond Girl outfits. The designer was a friend of the directors and I thought they were too boring and middle-aged for my character. The right costumes are essential for getting into a part; I've witnessed many costume parades with grumpy or even weeping actors because they've been put into the wrong thing.
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If I meet a woman who is immaculately groomed, I really admire her discipline. I grew up admiring out-of-this-world screen goddesses, such as Ava Gardner and Rita Hayworth, but I have to acknowledge that I haven't the patience for getting dressed up very often - at my age you think: "Why bother?". Now that I'm older, I don't go to premieres or first-night parties, not even my own.
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I had an eye job in my early forties. Someone took a photograph of me in a play, after I'd lost a lot of weight, and I did look like Miss Havisham. I thought, "I have to do something - I'm too young to look like this." So I went and had an eyelift once the play was finished, and the doctor said that it would last only about eight years. I imagined after that it would all cave in with a terrible groaning sound, like scaffolding, but it didn't, and I haven't had anything done since. I look at women who are my age who look absolutely ravishing and I know they have had something done. Well, why not?
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I don't go without make-up, though. I rather like that transformation in the morning from "I don't want to look in the mirror"; then you start pulling yourself together. It's a rather nice present to yourself that you can still do that.
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[on hitting middle age] I am devastated at what has happened. I have completely disappeared. I am totally invisible. I never really liked my sexy label but on the other hand, to disappear so totally is quite startling.
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Her first husband was an Israeli artist.
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Credits Patrick Macnee as her favorite acting mentor/best friend.
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Her smaller-than-usual role in "Detectorists" is explained by the fact that her character's daughter, the female lead in the series, is played by her real-life daughter Rachael Stirling.
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She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1988 Queen's New Year Honours List for her services to drama.
Graduated from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
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Became an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
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Received honorary degrees from Stirling University in 1988 and Leeds University in 1992.
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Became an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 and was the first as such to join the National Theatre of Great Britain (1971).
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The first major actor (along with co-star Keith Michell) to appear nude on stage in the production of "Abelard and Heloise" in 1970.
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Born in Yorkshire, the daughter of a railroad engineer, she moved with her family to India at the age of two months and lived there until she was 8 (she learned to speak Hindi).
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She was awarded the 1996 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performances in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Mother Courage".
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She was awarded the 1992 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Medea".
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She was nominated for 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Play of 1996 for her performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
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She was nominated for 1999 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award (1998 season) for Best Actress for her performances in both "Britannicus" and "Phèdre".
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20 October 2003 - British courts awarded her $63,832 and $134,000 in court expenses in her libel suit against Britain's "Evening Standard" and "Daily Mail" newspapers. They had written that she was an embittered woman who held British men in low regard.
Was voted the sexiest-ever TV star by TV Guide in the United States.
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At one time, she was Chancellor of Stirling University in Scotland.
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A savage review from John Simon for her performance in "Abelard and Heloise" led her to collect devastating theatrical reviews throughout history. The result was her book, "No Turn Unstoned", published in 1982.
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She received Tony Award nominations as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "Abelard and Heloise" (1972) and for "The Misanthrope" (1975). She won the Best Actress (Play) Tony Award in 1994 for her performance in the title role of "Medea". In recent years, her performances in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Mother Courage and Her Children" have led critics to proclaim her one of the greatest actresses on the British stage.
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She is more properly known as Dame Diana Rigg, the female equivalent of the title "Sir" when knighted. In June 1994, she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her long contributions to theater and film.
$10 Million
$1.2 Million
