As Emma Peel, she was the stylish new crime ... Helen Sloan/HBO Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was born on July 20, 1938, in Doncaster, Yorkshire, the daughter of a railroad engineer who soon moved ...

Emmy award-winning British actress Diana Rigg, who starred as Olenna Tyrell in "Game of Thrones" and Emma Peel in "The Avengers" TV series, has died, her daughter confirmed Thursday. She was 82.

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 ...

British actress Diana Rigg, who became a 1960s style icon as secret agent Emma Peel on “The Avengers” and later starred on “Game of Thrones,” has died. Sept. 10, 2020 The “Mrs.” in ...

NPR offers a remembrance. 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.

Dame Diana Rigg plays Mrs. Higgins ... In "The Avengers," she played Emma Peel, sidekick to suave secret agent John Steed, played by Patrick Macnee. The British series made Rigg an international ...

Diana Rigg first beguiled baby boomers in the ’60s as Emma Peel on The Avengers. Half a century later she was charming millennials as “Princess Olenna Tyrell” on Game of Thrones. Rigg ...

Emma Peel. Or Mrs. Peel ... that collection reflected both the playfulness and sly intelligence of Dame Diana Rigg. Its title? No Turn Unstoned. That book, which she had published in 1982 ...

British actress Diana Rigg, whose decades-long acting career spanned ... but perhaps her most definitive role was secret agent Emma Peel in “The Avengers,” in the classic series that was ...

Diana Rigg, the Tony and Emmy winner who splashed into the world of television with her commanding turn as intelligence agent Emma Peel on “The Avengers” in the 1960s and played Lady Olenna ...

LONDON — Diana Rigg, a British actress who became a 1960s style icon as secret agent Emma Peel in the TV series “The Avengers,” died Thursday of cancer at the age of 82. Rigg’s agent ...