Just read online that she passed at age 82 from cancer. Was a 60s icon as secret agent Emma Peel in The Avengers and most recently as Olenna Tyrell on Game of Thrones. Rest In Peace.

Dame Diana Rigg: Avengers, Bond and Game of Thrones actress dies at 82 (BBC News)



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I was a kid watching The Avengers in the 1960s and getting tingles looking at Diana Rig. RIP.

John Steed and Emma Peel, talk about a cool duo. They are both gone. Slipping away.

I wasn't born when the Avengers were on but seen reruns. Natalie Dormer, who portrayed her daughter on GOT, actually looks like she could be her daughter!

Loved the Avengers back in the 1960s. She was so cool and sexy. RIP Ms Rigg.

She was a truly a great actress and extremely versatile in her acting performances.

R.I.P. Diana

Watched those Avengers episodes Saturday afternoons back in the late 60's when they were first shown in the US, couldnt have been more than 9 or 10 but Emma Peel really got my attention. What a woman! Safe travels Diana Rigg and say hello to Patrick Macnee when you get there!

She was a one of my childhood icons with Patrick Macnee. She was the first women that I have seen in Tv, who never was frightend and didn't scream all the time. A real gem of the swinging 60's.

She was fabulous

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She was fabulous

Yes she was! RIP Diana Rigg.

Now thats funny.....

“I used to get a lot of odd fan mail, but my mum enjoyed replying to it. She'd tell overexcited teenage boys, 'My daughter's too old for you. What you need is a run around the block.'"

A truly great and memorable no-nonsense lady RIP.

The headlines calling Diana a "Game of Thrones Star" are written by young people with no clue of the impact she made playing Emma Peel in The Avengers.

Here is a Wikipedia entry on Wonder Woman, which cites the characters' 1968 non-super-powered era, which was influenced by....Diana Rigg as Emma Peel!

In 1968, under the guidance of scripter Denny O'Neil and editor/plotter/artist Mike Sekowsky,[16] Wonder Woman surrendered her powers to remain in "Man's World" rather than accompany her fellow Amazons to another dimension where they could "restore their magic" (part of her motivation was to assist Steve Trevor, who was facing criminal charges).

This new era of the comic book was influenced by the British television series The Avengers, with Wonder Woman in the role of Emma Peel.[17] With Diana Prince running a boutique, fighting crime, and acting in concert with private detective allies Tim Trench and Jonny Double, the character resembled the Golden Age Black Canary. Soon after the launch of the "new" Wonder Woman, the editors severed all connections to her old life, most notably by killing Steve Trevor.[18]



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RIP Ms. Rigg

A beautiful talented woman

A flashbacK: She starred in a BBC miniseries called "Mother Love" which was shown on PBS here in the U-S-of-A back in 1989. Really good, really creepy. A friend of ours told us it reminded him of his own mom. She was Mrs Peel but so much more.

R.I.P. Loved her performance as the Bond Lady ( Thereza ) in On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969

Emma Peel, fantastic character, so well-portrayed by the gorgeous and talented Diana Riggs. RIP.

~"Love is Strong"~

It's amazing how many of the online tributes I've seen, presumably written by people much younger than myself, mention only GOT in the headline. I guess you have to be around my age (sixty-one) to know what she's really famous for.

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The headlines calling Diana a "Game of Thrones Star" are written by young people with no clue of the impact she made playing Emma Peel in The Avengers.

I guess we shouldn't be surprised by this. You mention "Avengers" to anyone under fifty, and they may remember the disastrous 1998 Uma Thurman film, but certainly not the 1960s TV show. And it's far more likely that when they think "Avengers" it's only the Marvel Comics franchise that comes to mind.



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Somebodies did a tribute to Mrs Peel/Ms Rigg on utoob.

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Don't forget, guys, she was brilliant in the theatre. Her Medea by Euripides was brilliant. I saw it when I was doing my Classics degree, and she was amazing.

She also appeared in a great Dr Who with her daughter, Rachael Stirling, highlighting that talent, in some instances, is genetic.

Also, not forgetting a throughly underrated film, from the 1970s, Theatre of Blood with Vincent Price. Both Price and Rigg own the film.