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Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her roles include Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965–1968); Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013–2017); and the title role in Medea in the West End in 1993 followed by Broadway ...
Diana Rigg and George Lazenby on set. In 1967, after five films, Sean Connery resigned from the role of James Bond and was not on speaking terms with Albert Broccoli during the filming of You Only Live Twice. [26] Over 400 actors, including many of the most famous performers in the Commonwealth, were considered for the role of James Bond. [16]
Teresa "Tracy" Bond (née Draco, formerly Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo) is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the 1963 James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service, where she becomes the first Bond girl to marry 007. In the novel’s 1969 film adaptation, Tracy is played by the actress Diana Rigg.
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. In recent years, Rigg earned new ...
While going head-to-head with Telly Savalas’s Blofeld and his “angels of death,” Bond falls in love with and marries Diana Rigg’s troubled Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo only to see her ...
Dame Diana Rigg, who was known for her roles in The Avengers, Game of Thrones and the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, has died. Rigg was married twice, to the Israeli painter ...
In real life, Diana Rigg had chosen to leave the series for a number of reasons, one of which was to accept a role in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (similarly, her predecessor Honor Blackman departed to appear in the Bond film Goldfinger). During her first season, Rigg eventually discovered that she was being paid less ...
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