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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: Created by Sydney Newman. With Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson. A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners.
At the end of the fifth series in 1967, Diana Rigg left to pursue other projects. This included following Honor Blackman to play a leading role in a James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, as James Bond's wife Tracy Bond. Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg remained lifelong friends.
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 19, 2020 · Diana Rigg obituary: The Avengers made her the quintessential new woman of the 1960s. From 1967 to 2018 Rigg was nominated for nine Emmy Awards, including four for Game of Thrones. Expand....
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.”
From 1965 to 1968, Rigg appeared on the British television series The Avengers (1961) playing the secret agent Mrs. Emma Peel. She became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), playing Tracy Bond, James Bond's only wife, opposite George Lazenby.
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.
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.
Sep 10, 2020 · Diana Rigg, the Tony and Emmy winner who splashed into the world of television with her commanding turn as intelligence agent Emma Peel on “The Avengers” in the 1960s and played Lady Olenna...
