Diana Rigg
1938 - 2020
If you were a normal teenaged boy in America in the 1960's, you were well aware of British actress Diana Rigg, who died yesterday at the age of 82.
Miss Rigg, of course, played the sexy and lethal British secret agent Emma Peel in the 1960's TV series "The Avengers", and like I said, what hormonally charged teenaged boy of that era didn't want to watch that show? She went on to have a distinguished career in movies and the stage, primarily in Great Britain, but not exclusively. She won a Broadway Tony Award in 1994. What I didn't know until I read her obituaries is that she was an American television star once again as recently as the 2010's, starring in HBO's "Game of Thrones", and, in fact, had received multiple Emmy nominations for her role in that series. (Sorry, but I'm not a G.O.T. Guy.)
She also was a "Bond Girl" in 1969's "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." That was the one where George Lazenby played 007, so it's probably the least-viewed movie of the Bond Franchise. Certainly through no fault of Diana Rigg.
Her acting credits in IMDB begin in 1959 and end in 2020. That's eight decades in which Diana Rigg was acting before her public. That is one terrific run.
RIP Diana Rigg.
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