Diana Rigg

Since 1989 she has hosted the PBS television series Mystery!, taking over from Vincent Price. Some of Jean Seberg's films were:. By Stirling she has a daughter, Rachael Atlanta Stirling (born 1977), who is also now an actress. Her second husband, Romain Gary, with whom she had a son, Alexandre Diego Gary, also committed suicide a year after her death. 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. Actress Kirsten Dunst has proposed making a film about Seberg's life. Dame Diana was born in Doncaster in Yorkshire and lived in India between the ages of two and eight. The short film Je T'aime John Wayne 2000, is a tribute parody of Breathless, with Camilla Rutherford playing Seberg's role.

Rigg was created CBE in 1987 and knighted in 1994. In 1995 a documentary of her life was made titled: Jean Seberg: American Actress. On television, she has appeared as Mrs Danvers in Rebecca and as the amateur detective Mrs Bradley in a series of mysteries. Jean Seberg was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France. 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. The police report stated that she had taken a massive overdose of barbiturates and alcohol (8g per litre). Her other films include The Assassination Bureau (1969), Theatre of Blood (1973), and A Little Night Music (1977). Miraculously, she survived the incident, but less than a year later, in August 1979, she went missing and was found dead eleven days later in the back seat of her car in a Paris suburb.

Her character, to date, is the only girl to officially marry James Bond. She made several attempts to take her own life, including throwing herself under a train on the Paris Métro. On the big screen, she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) playing Tracy Bond. Miss Seberg stated that the trauma of this event brought on premature labor and her child was stillborn. According to Miss Seberg's husband, after the loss of their child she suffered from a deep depression and became suicidal. In 1986, she took a leading role in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's musical, Follies. In a press conference after the miscarriage she presented the press with a viewing of her fetus to demonstrate that the child did not have a father of African heritage and to expose the malevolent falsehood of the claim used by the FBI in its illegal COINTELPRO effort to discredit her and violate her exercise of her constitutionally protected rights. 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'. Before Hoover's plan to disgrace her could be implemented, the story was reported by the Los Angeles Times newspaper and Newsweek magazine.

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. Edgar Hoover, since proven to have illegally kept large files on private citizens, considered her a threat and in 1970, when she was seven months pregnant, created a story to leak to the media that the child she was carrying was not fathered by her second husband, Romain Gary, but by a black civil rights activist. Her professional debut was in The Caucasian Chalk Circle in 1955. Then FBI director, J. Her career in film, television and the theatre has been wide-ranging, including roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1959 and 1964. She supported the Black Panther Party. She is particularly known for her role in the British 1960s television series The Avengers, where she played the sexy secret agent Emma Peel. During the latter part of the 1960s, Miss Seberg used her high-profile image to voice support for the NAACP and supported native American school groups such as the Mesquakie Bucks at the Tama settlement near her home town of Marshalltown, for whom she purchased $500 worth of basketball uniforms.

Dame Diana Rigg (born July 20, 1938) is a British actress. Among her roles, she co-starred with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Luc Godard's classic work of New Wave cinema, Breathless (original French title: A bout de souffle). She became even more of an icon from her roles in numerous French films and the tragedy of her turbulent life. She would go on to star in thirty-four films in Hollywood and in France where she lived in Paris with her first husband, attorney Francois Moreuil. She was discovered by Otto Preminger, who directed her in her first two motion pictures.

Jean Seberg (November 13, 1938 - September 8, 1979) was an American actress born in Marshalltown, Iowa, USA who spent an important part of her career in France. The Wild Duck - (1976). White Horses of Summer - (1975). Grobe Ekstase - (1975).

Les Hautes solitudes - (1974). The Corruption of Chris Miller - (1973). Camorra - (1972). Kill! - (1972).

L'attentat - (1972). Airport - (1970). Paint Your Wagon - (1969). Pendulum - (1968).

Birds in Peru - (1968). The Road to Corinth - (1968). Line of Demarcation - (1966). A Fine Madness - (1966).

Backfire - (1964). The Beautiful Swindlers - (1964). Lilith - (1964). Playtime - (1962).

In the French Style - (1962). Five Day Lover - (1961). Breathless - (1959) - (A bout de souffle). The Mouse That Roared - (1959).

Bonjour tristesse - (1958). Saint Joan - (1957).