Diana Rigg - 2019
Cannes International Series Festival
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Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE died a few days ago; she was 82 years old. The range of her acting abilities on stage and film was phenomenal; she appeared in the very deepest, darkest Shakespeare to the delightfully whimsical Muppets! She said "I did it for my daughter, who was passionately in love with Miss Piggy. She was about 5 or 6, and she came to the studio with a couple of friends to meet Miss Piggy, and she burst into tears when she saw Miss Piggy!"
Rigg was the love interested of the British Spy in my favorite Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (link below), and even managed to marry the bounder in the end but . . . well, I won't spoil it.
I suppose her most famous role was as Emma Peel, the partner of John Steed (Patrick Macnee) in the British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers.
As Emma Peel, The Avengers
As Teresa di Vicenzo, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
As Lady Holiday, The Great Muppet Caper
As Olenna Tyrell, Game of Thrones
Viewfinder links:
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Diana Rigg
Net links:
CNN ~ Diana Rigg worried I'd get hit by lightning
Independent UK ~ Diana Rigg: lit up The Avengers & Game of Thrones
YouTube links:
The Avengers - First and Last Appearances of Mrs Peel
Dame Diana Rigg on The Avengers (26:50)
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
Diana Rigg 1967 Newsreel
Gavin Esler In Conversation with Dame Diana Rigg (56:27)
There is a life after being at
the pinnacle of your beauty.
Plenty of life and fun.
~ Diana Rigg
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