Diana Rigg: Bond girl, Avenger and distinguished stage actress dies aged 82

Diana Rigg: Bond girl, Avenger and distinguished stage actress dies aged 82

Dame Diana Rigg (Fiona Hanson/PA)

Thu, 10 Sep, 2020 - 14:42
PA Reporter

Diana Rigg shot to fame as Emma Peel in Sixties TV series The Avengers and then as a Bond girl.

But she also notched up many Shakespearean roles and enjoyed a long career, appearing recently as powerful matriarch Olenna Tyrell in Game Of Thrones.

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