A year before Bruce Lee began doing martial arts on TV's The Green Hornet, The Avengers' Emma Peel, played by 26-year-old British actress Diana Rigg, was disposing of bad guys with a well-placed ...

As Emma Peel, the butt-kicking spy in The Avengers, the British actress Diana Rigg was a '60s TV icon. From 1965 to 1968, she captivated viewers with her mod fashions; her chemistry with her partner ...

British actress Diana Rigg, a sexy superspy on TV and beautiful Bond girl in the 1960s who gained a new generation of fans on “Game of Thrones,” died Thursday. She was 82. “She was at home with her ...

Dame Diana Rigg is one of the most incredible actors of her time: an impeccable interpreter of Shakespeare and other classical stage work and a thinking man’s sex symbol as Mrs. Emma Peel, the catsuit ...

New Yorkers who have occasion to visit the Lower East Side — on the way to the Tenement Museum, perhaps, or Essex Street Market — may have noticed a towering mural on the corner of Allen and Broome ...

Diana Rigg, who died September 10 aged 82, was a fine classical actress who struggled against over-identification with her popular successes. Like Honor Blackman before her, Rigg’s recognition for the ...

Bringing All Creatures Great and Small‘s Mrs. Pumphrey to life, with all her requisite gusto, entitlement, affection, and charm, required no less than a legitimate grand dame…and Diana Rigg certainly ...

Diana Rigg was born on July 20, 1938, and throughout her 82 years (she passed away from lung cancer on September 10, 2020), she built a legacy that stretched from Shakespeare to Game of Thrones. For ...

Dame Diana Rigg, the British actress who came to 1960s fame playing Emma Peel in television's "The Avengers," has died. She was 82. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a remembrance. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Her ...

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LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - British actress Diana Rigg, who came to fame in the cult 1960s TV show "The Avengers" and enjoyed a distinguished and varied career on stage and screen from James Bond to ...