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21 hours ago · Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. 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 ...
- The Avengers
The Avengers was marked by different eras as co-stars came...
- Archie Stirling
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- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a 1969 spy film and the...
- Olenna Tyrell
Olenna Tyrell (née Redwyne) is a fictional character in the...
- The Crimson Horror
"The Crimson Horror" is the eleventh episode of the seventh...
- Emma Peel
Emma Peel is a fictional character played by Diana Rigg in...
- Tracy Bond
Teresa "Tracy" Bond (née Draco, formerly Contessa Teresa di...
- Menachem Gueffen
Career. Gueffen was born to Jewish parents from Poland in...
- No Turn Unstoned
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2 days ago · Margaret Leighton: Chris Becker: Dr. Kildare "A Life for a Life" Shelley Winters: Edith: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre "Back to Back" 1967: Geraldine Page: Sook: ABC Stage 67 "Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory" ABC: Shirley Booth: Amanda Wingfield: CBS Playhouse "The Glass Menagerie" CBS: Mildred Dunnock: Linda Loman: Death of a ...
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
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- Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
3 days ago · Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington: 1992: Dafydd Elis-Thomas, Baron Elis-Thomas: 1992 Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf: 1992 Tony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick: 1993: Simon Haskel, Baron Haskel: 1993 Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton: 1993 Robert Dixon-Smith, Baron Dixon-Smith: 1993 Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat: 1993
4 days ago · Margaret Atwood is a Canadian writer best known for her prose fiction and for her feminist perspective. Her notable books include The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Alias Grace (1996), The Blind Assassin (2000), Oryx and Crake (2003), and The Testaments (2019). Learn more about Atwood’s life and work.
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- What was Margaret Atwood’s childhood like?Margaret Atwood began writing at age five and resumed her efforts, more seriously, a decade later. As an adolescent, Atwood divided her time betwee...
- What awards did Margaret Atwood win?Margaret Atwood won two Governor General’s Literary Awards, for Poetry or Drama for The Circle Game (1966) and for fiction for The Handmaid’s Tale...
- What is Margaret Atwood best known for?Margaret Atwood is best known for The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), a dystopian novel set in New England in the near future, which posits a Christian fun...
4 days ago · Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Leighton 13 votes The once-prominent Compson family of Jefferson, Miss., has been reduced to near-penury by generations of alcoholism and sin.
4 days ago · Martha Gellhorn (born November 8, 1908, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died February 15, 1998, London, England) was an American journalist and novelist who, as one of the first female war correspondents, candidly described ordinary people in times of unrest.
5 days ago · Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797-1858) (wikipedia). No list of indomitable women travellers would be complete without a reference to the incredible Ida Laura Pfeiffer, in whose footprints Mabel occasionally followed. Although the latter never refers directly to the Austrian globetrotter in her diaries, Mabel would certainly have known of her, and ...
