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| General info : | | Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg (born 20 July 1938, Doncaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England – died 10 September 2020, London, England (aged 82)) 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 Broadway a year later.
Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in The Caucasian Chalk Circle and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. She made her Broadway debut in Abelard & Heloise in 1971. Her role as Emma Peel made her a sex symbol. For her role in Medea, both in London and New York, she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and became a four-time Laurence Olivier Award nominee. She was appointed CBE in 1988 and a Dame in 1994 for services to drama.
Rigg appeared in numerous TV series and films, playing Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968); Lady Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper (1981); and Arlena Marshall in Evil Under the Sun (1982). She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC miniseries Mother Love (1989) and an Emmy Award for her role as Mrs Danvers in Rebecca (1997). Her other television credits include You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), Detectorists (2015), the Doctor Who episode "The Crimson Horror" (2013) with her daughter, Rachael Stirling, and playing Mrs Pumphrey in All Creatures Great and Small (2020). Her final role was in Edgar Wright's 2021 psychological horror film Last Night in Soho, completed just before her death.
In the 1960s, Rigg lived for eight years with director Philip Saville, gaining attention in the tabloid press when she disclaimed interest in marrying the older and already-married Saville, saying that she had no desire "to be respectable".
She was married to Menachem Gueffen, an Israeli painter, from 1973 until their divorce in 1976.
Rigg had a daughter, actress Rachael Stirling (born 1977), with Archie Stirling, a theatrical producer and former officer in the Scots Guards, and son of Bill Stirling. They married five years later in 25 March 1982, but divorced in 1990 after Archie's affair with the actress Joely Richardson.
Rigg died at her daughter Rachael Stirling's home in London on 10 September 2020, at the age of 82. Rigg's cause of death was lung cancer, with which she had been diagnosed in March that year. | |
| Source : | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Rigg (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Rigg) | |
| Websites | | IMDb (www.imdb.com/name/nm0001671/?ref_=nmbio_ov_bk) | |
| Relations : | | Married to : Archie Stirlingm. 1982 - div. 1990 | |
| Relations : | | Married to : Menachem Gueffenm. 1973 - div. 1976 | |
| Relations : | | Partner (not married) : Philip Saville | |
| Relations : | | Mother of : Rachael Stirling | |
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