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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 ...
The Assassination Bureau Limited (also known The Assassination Bureau in the United States) is a 1969 British Technicolor black comedy adventure film, produced by Michael Relph, directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, and Curd Jürgens.
The series starred Diana Rigg in her first American television series, as Diana Smythe, a recently divorced British fashion designer who moves to the States in the hopes of becoming more noticed in the fashion world by relocating to New York City. As the series begins she has landed a high-profile job as a fashion coordinator at Buckley's ...
It ran for eight episodes and starred Diana Rigg as Lady Dedlock, with Denholm Elliott in the role of John Jarndyce. [3] In the United States, the series ran under the Masterpiece Theatre series umbrella. [4] A notable plot omission in this version is the story of Caddy Jellyby and the Turveydrop family.
Diana Rigg took over as host in 1989 and had the opportunity to introduce two mystery series in which she was the star: Mother Love and The Mrs Bradley Mysteries. Rigg had previously won a BAFTA Award for her work on Masterpiece Theater 's 1985 Bleak House adaptation. She left Mystery! in 2003. Beginning in 2004, Mystery! aired without a host.
The film follows the plot of the 1974 book. The story centres around Mildred Hubble, who is invariably the "Worst Witch" at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches. [1] Mildred causes many mishaps, including being late for school, making all of her classmates fall down, Mildred and her friend unintentionally turning themselves invisible, and transforming the class bully Ethel into a pig.
Minikillers is a four-episode series of short films starring Diana Rigg. [1] [2] Rigg plays an unnamed character extremely similar to her character Emma Peel in The Avengers, although neither the production company nor any of the other cast or crew is related to that TV series. [3]
Brigitte Bardot was invited, but after she signed to appear in Shalako opposite Sean Connery, the deal fell through, [15] and Diana Rigg—who had already been the popular heroine Emma Peel in The Avengers—was cast instead. [7] Rigg said one of the reasons for accepting the role was that she always wanted to be in an epic film. [17]