Dame Diana Rigg has died at age 82. Known most recently for playing Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, other screen highlights were as Emma Peel in The Avengers TV series, and as Countess Teresa di Vicenzo who marries James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. She also won many stage honors.
Rigg was a mid-1960s sex symbol responding with perky insouciance to Patrick Macnee’s “Mrs. Peel, we’re needed.” Like peers Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, she kept working throughout a long acting career filled with honors.
