A year before Bruce Lee began doing martial arts on TV's The Green Hornet, The Avengers' Emma Peel, played by 26-year-old British actress Diana Rigg, was disposing of bad guys with a well-placed ...

As Emma Peel, the butt-kicking spy in The Avengers, the British actress Diana Rigg was a '60s TV icon. From 1965 to 1968, she captivated viewers with her mod fashions; her chemistry with her partner ...

Dame Diana Rigg is one of the most incredible actors of her time: an impeccable interpreter of Shakespeare and other classical stage work and a thinking man’s sex symbol as Mrs. Emma Peel, the catsuit ...

New Yorkers who have occasion to visit the Lower East Side — on the way to the Tenement Museum, perhaps, or Essex Street Market — may have noticed a towering mural on the corner of Allen and Broome ...

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LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - British actress Diana Rigg, who came to fame in the cult 1960s TV show "The Avengers" and enjoyed a distinguished and varied career on stage and screen from James Bond to ...