Diana Rigg

Since 1989 she has hosted the PBS television series Mystery!, taking over from Vincent Price. Her credits include:. By Stirling she has a daughter, Rachael Atlanta Stirling (born 1977), who is also now an actress. She subsequently recovered to obtain a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for The English Patient (1996). 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. Born in Redruth, Cornwall, England, UK, she was nominated for "Worst New Star" in the 1986 Golden Raspberry Awards (and lost). Dame Diana was born in Doncaster in Yorkshire and lived in India between the ages of two and eight. Kristin Scott Thomas (born May 24, 1960) is an English actress.

Rigg was created CBE in 1987 and knighted in 1994. Bitter Moon (1992). On television, she has appeared as Mrs Danvers in Rebecca and as the amateur detective Mrs Bradley in a series of mysteries. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). 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. Richard III (1995). Her other films include The Assassination Bureau (1969), Theatre of Blood (1973), and A Little Night Music (1977). Angels & Insects (1995).

Her character, to date, is the only girl to officially marry James Bond. Mission: Impossible (1996). On the big screen, she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) playing Tracy Bond. The English Patient (1996). In 1986, she took a leading role in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's musical, Follies. The Horse Whisperer (1998). 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'. Up at the Villa (2000).

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. Life as a House (2001). Her professional debut was in The Caucasian Chalk Circle in 1955. Gosford Park (2001). 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.