Diana Rigg
as Olenna Tyrell
Character Overview: Olenna Tyrell née Redwyne is the grandmother of Loras and Margaery Tyrell. She comes to King’s Landing after Margaery is betrothed to King Joffrey.
Actor Bio: Diana Rigg was born in Yorkshire and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford–on–Avon in 1959 and made her mark shortly thereafter in productions of The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, and King Lear. Following on the heels of a year–long stint as Emma Peel in The Avengers, Rigg joined the National Theatre, where she played Dottie in Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers, Celimène in The Misanthrope, Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, and Phaedra in Phaedra Britannica. Rigg also starred in Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day, Antony and Cleopatra, Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, and won a Tony Award in 1994 for her Broadway performance in the title role of Medea. She also starred as Mrs. Danvers in ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre’s Rebecca (1997), a performance that earned her the 1997 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries. Her many film credits include: The Hospital, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Little Night Music, Evil Under the Sun, and A Good Man in Africa. In 1988, Rigg was decorated as a Commander of the British Empire and, in 1994, was named Dame Commander of the British Empire. – PBS.org
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