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Emma Peel is a fictional character played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers, and by Uma Thurman in the 1998 film version. She was born Emma Knight , the daughter of an industrialist, Sir John Knight.
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 ...
She was the original choice to play Emma Peel in the 1960s television series The Avengers. However, after filming nearly two episodes, Shepherd left the production and was replaced by Diana Rigg. [2] In 1970, she appeared on Broadway in Barry England's Conduct Unbecoming, a story of the British Army in Kipling's India, as Mrs Hasseltine.
Alun Hughes, who had designed clothing for Diana Rigg's personal wardrobe, was suggested by the actress to design Emma Peel's "softer" new wardrobe. Pierre Cardin was brought in to design a new wardrobe for Macnee. In the US, TV Guide ran a four-page photo spread on Diana Rigg's new "Emmapeeler" outfits (10–16 June 1967).
This is a list of actors who appeared in the British spy-fi television series The Avengers between 1961 and 1969 and its sequel The New Avengers between 1976 and 1977. Many of the actors also appeared in ITC Entertainment productions such as The Saint, Danger Man, The Baron, The Champions, The Prisoner, Man in a Suitcase, Department S, The Persuaders!, The Protectors and Randall and Hopkirk ...
Thorson is best known for her role as Tara King (succeeding Diana Rigg as Emma Peel) in the last series of the British TV adventure series, The Avengers, with the original star Patrick Macnee. [4] She was reunited with Macnee in a commercial for Laurent-Perrier champagne in the mid 1970s, which led to the series reappearing as The New Avengers ...
Shortly afterwards, John Steed learns from a newspaper that unexpectedly Emma Peel's long-lost husband, the air ace Peter Peel, has been found alive in the Amazonian jungle, so Mrs Peel is leaving. She gets in a car with a man who looks very much like Steed, and drives off, while Tara comes up to Steed's flat, revealing she is his new partner.
Diana Rigg as Emma Peel; Julian Glover as Masgard; Pamela Ann Davy as Mandy Mackay; Howard Marion Crawford as Geoffrey, 16th Duke of Benedict; Jack Woolgar as Kermit the Hermit; Jack Watson as Hopper; Edward Underdown as Rupert Staplow, 15th Duke of Benedict; John Cater as Olliphant; Vernon Dobtcheff as George Spencer; Alister Williamson as Tom