Diana Rigg

Dame Diana Rigg (born July 20, 1938) is a British actress.

She is particularly known for her role in the British 1960s television series The Avengers, where she played the sexy secret agent Emma Peel. Her career in film, television and the theatre has been wide-ranging, including roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1959 and 1964. Her professional debut was in The Caucasian Chalk Circle in 1955.

After leaving The Avengers she returned to the stage, including playing two Stoppard leads, Ruth Carson in Night and Day and Dorothy Moore in Jumpers. A nude scene with Keith Michell in Abelard and Heloise led to a notorious description of her as 'built like a brick basilica with too few flying buttresses'. In 1986, she took a leading role in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's musical, Follies.

On the big screen, she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) playing Tracy Bond. Her character, to date, is the only girl to officially marry James Bond. Her other films include The Assassination Bureau (1969), Theatre of Blood (1973), and A Little Night Music (1977).

In the 1990s she had triumphs with roles at the Almeida Theatre in Islington (north London), including Medea in 1993, Mother Courage in 1995, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1996. On television, she has appeared as Mrs Danvers in Rebecca and as the amateur detective Mrs Bradley in a series of mysteries.

Rigg was created CBE in 1987 and knighted in 1994. Dame Diana was born in Doncaster in Yorkshire and lived in India between the ages of two and eight. She was married to Menahem Gueffen, an Israeli painter, from 1973-76, and to Archibald Stirling (a.k.a. Archibald Hugh Stirling of Keir), a theatrical producer, former officer in the Scots Guards, and a member of one of Scotland's grandest families, from 1982-90. By Stirling she has a daughter, Rachael Atlanta Stirling (born 1977), who is also now an actress.

Since 1989 she has hosted the PBS television series Mystery!, taking over from Vincent Price.


This page about Diana Rigg includes information from a Wikipedia article.
Additional articles about Diana Rigg
News stories about Diana Rigg
External links for Diana Rigg
Videos for Diana Rigg
Wikis about Diana Rigg
Discussion Groups about Diana Rigg
Blogs about Diana Rigg
Images of Diana Rigg

Since 1989 she has hosted the PBS television series Mystery!, taking over from Vincent Price. Roberts committed suicide by barbiturate poisoning in Los Angeles, California. By Stirling she has a daughter, Rachael Atlanta Stirling (born 1977), who is also now an actress. Other movies include Our Man in Havana, A Flea in Her Ear, Doctors' Wives, Wild Rovers, O Lucky Man!, Murder on the Orient Express, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Yanks and Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen. She was married to Menahem Gueffen, an Israeli painter, from 1973-76, and to Archibald Stirling (a.k.a. Archibald Hugh Stirling of Keir), a theatrical producer, former officer in the Scots Guards, and a member of one of Scotland's grandest families, from 1982-90. She starred in 1963's This Sporting Life, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Dame Diana was born in Doncaster in Yorkshire and lived in India between the ages of two and eight. In 1962 she married Rex Harrison. They were divorced in 1971.

Rigg was created CBE in 1987 and knighted in 1994. Born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, she debuted in movies in 1953 in The Limping Man, but she became well-known by her 1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, in which she appeared opposite Albert Finney. On television, she has appeared as Mrs Danvers in Rebecca and as the amateur detective Mrs Bradley in a series of mysteries. Rachel Roberts (September 20, 1927 - November 26, 1980) was a British actress. In the 1990s she had triumphs with roles at the Almeida Theatre in Islington (north London), including Medea in 1993, Mother Courage in 1995, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1996. Her other films include The Assassination Bureau (1969), Theatre of Blood (1973), and A Little Night Music (1977).

Her character, to date, is the only girl to officially marry James Bond. On the big screen, she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) playing Tracy Bond. In 1986, she took a leading role in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's musical, Follies. A nude scene with Keith Michell in Abelard and Heloise led to a notorious description of her as 'built like a brick basilica with too few flying buttresses'.

After leaving The Avengers she returned to the stage, including playing two Stoppard leads, Ruth Carson in Night and Day and Dorothy Moore in Jumpers. Her professional debut was in The Caucasian Chalk Circle in 1955. Her career in film, television and the theatre has been wide-ranging, including roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1959 and 1964. She is particularly known for her role in the British 1960s television series The Avengers, where she played the sexy secret agent Emma Peel.

Dame Diana Rigg (born July 20, 1938) is a British actress.