On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
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- English actress
Her roles include Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965–1968); Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013–2017); and the title role in Medea in the West End in 1993 followed by Broadway a year later.
The Avengers is a classic British spy show starring Patrick Macnee as John Steed and Diana Rigg as his partner Emma Peel. Rigg played Peel for three seasons from 1965 to 1968, and was nominated for four Primetime Emmys.
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Diana Rigg was a British actress who starred in The Avengers, Game of Thrones, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service. She won an Emmy, a Tony, and two BAFTAs for her roles in TV and film.
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Sep 10, 2020 · British actress Diana Rigg, whose decades-long acting career spanned 1960s spy series “The Avengers,” classical theater and “Game of Thrones,” has died aged 82.
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Sep 10, 2020 · But Ms. Rigg’s first and biggest taste of stardom came in 1965, when, as a 26-year-old veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, she was cast on the fourth season of ITV’s “The Avengers.”
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Emma Peel is a fictional character played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers, and by Uma Thurman in the 1998 film version. She was born Emma Knight, the daughter of an industrialist, Sir John Knight. She is the crime-fighting partner of John Steed.
Sep 10, 2020 · Actor Diana Rigg, best known for roles in the 1960s The Avengers, a James Bond movie and Game of Thrones, died at 82. NPR offers a remembrance.
