Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

The first scene between Rigg and Macnee sets the tone for the series that's immediately different from previous seasons. There's the playful sparring, the double entendre in their lines, and most of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Emmy award winning British actress Diana Rigg, who starred as Olenna Tyrell in "Game of Thrones" and Emma Peel in "The Avengers" TV series has died, her daughter confirmed Thursday. She was 82. “My ...

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 “Game of Thrones”, died on ...

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 ...

Dame Diana Rigg, the British actress who came to 1960s fame playing Emma Peel in television's "The Avengers," has died. She was 82. NPR's Bob Mondello offers a remembrance. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Her ...

While Rigg rose to fame in the 1960s while playing sexy spy Emma Peel on The Avengers, she was best known to younger TV viewers for her role on Game of Thrones. She joined the show in season 3 as the ...

Emmy- and Tony-winning actress Diana Rigg, who rose to fame as Emma Peel on The Avengers in the 1960s and earned a new generation of fans as Olenna Tyrell on Game of Thrones, has died. She was 82.