Diana Rigg

Since 1989 she has hosted the PBS television series Mystery!, taking over from Vincent Price. Scott has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, next to the Fonda Theatre. By Stirling she has a daughter, Rachael Atlanta Stirling (born 1977), who is also now an actress. Her last production was a performance of Twelve Angry Men, which was performed at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Hollywood. She was married to Menahem Gueffen, an Israeli painter, from 1973-76, and to Archibald Stirling (a.k.a. Archibald Hugh Stirling of Keir), a theatrical producer, former officer in the Scots Guards, and a member of one of Scotland's grandest families, from 1982-90. Scott co-producer of both versions. Dame Diana was born in Doncaster in Yorkshire and lived in India between the ages of two and eight. The company produced such fare as First Monday in October, both on stage and in film.

Rigg was created CBE in 1987 and knighted in 1994. It later became the Plumstead Theatre Company and moved to Los Angeles, California. On television, she has appeared as Mrs Danvers in Rebecca and as the amateur detective Mrs Bradley in a series of mysteries. In 1968 she joined Henry Fonda and Robert Ryan in forming a theatrical production company called The Plumstead Playhouse. In the 1990s she had triumphs with roles at the Almeida Theatre in Islington (north London), including Medea in 1993, Mother Courage in 1995, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1996. She never again achieved such acclaim, although she appeared in such films as The Howards of Virginia, The Desperate Hours, The Ten Commandments, Sayonara, Ben-Hur, Airport 1975 and The Turning Point. In both The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, she played Charlton Heston's mother. Her other films include The Assassination Bureau (1969), Theatre of Blood (1973), and A Little Night Music (1977). Her film debut in Our Town in 1940 saw her receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Her character, to date, is the only girl to officially marry James Bond. Scott eventually went to New York City, where she was cast as the original Emily in the Broadway production of Our Town. On the big screen, she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) playing Tracy Bond. She got her start acting in shortened Shakespeare productions at the Century of Progress world's fair in Chicago, Illinois in 1933 - 1934. In 1986, she took a leading role in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's musical, Follies. Born in Jamesport, Missouri, she became interested in acting in high school, and earned a degree from the University of Michigan before pursuing her acting dream. A nude scene with Keith Michell in Abelard and Heloise led to a notorious description of her as 'built like a brick basilica with too few flying buttresses'. Martha Scott (September 22, 1912 - May 28, 2003) was an American actress.

After leaving The Avengers she returned to the stage, including playing two Stoppard leads, Ruth Carson in Night and Day and Dorothy Moore in Jumpers. Her professional debut was in The Caucasian Chalk Circle in 1955. Her career in film, television and the theatre has been wide-ranging, including roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1959 and 1964. She is particularly known for her role in the British 1960s television series The Avengers, where she played the sexy secret agent Emma Peel.

Dame Diana Rigg (born July 20, 1938) is a British actress.