Dame Diana Rigg dies aged 82
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54106509Actress Dame Diana Rigg, famous for roles including Emma Peel in TV series The Avengers and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, has died at the age of 82.
"She died peacefully early this morning. She was at home with her family who have asked for privacy at this difficult time," her agent said.
Dame Diana is also known for playing Tracy, the only woman who became Mrs James Bond, in 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
She also appeared in ITV's Victoria. She played the Duchess of Buccleuch in the royal drama, and can currently be seen playing Mrs Pumphrey in Channel 5's new adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small.
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RIP Diana.
It was simply not fair to young women that they only had an older man as a counterpoint to Emma Peel's attraction for young men. Perhaps that was to deliberately foster Daddy issue among young women?
When The Avengers was first shown in the US, we didn't get it on the available channels in my area. My cousin, in Alabama, did and I got to see one episode on the first USA run while visiting his family. Instead, I got to watch The Man From U.N.C.L.E. with the totally sexy David McCallum on a regular basis so at the time I didn't feel deprived or conflicting. 
Episode was not shown here in 1966
Well, crush or role model. Or both. 
OMG, I wanted to BE Mrs. Peel. OMG I absolutely idolized her. Emma Peel. I wanted that figure. I wanted those catsuits. I wanted that unfathomably cool chic. I wanted to dress like that. I dreamed about being the cool, slinky crime-fighter with the male partner with whom to share that droll, impossibly clever repartee. I wanted to have karate at my fingertips like she did. Those moves! Indeed, years later when I started studying karate, I thought of her, and though how I'd finally be learning some of her moves. I was STILL a Mrs. Peel wannabe.
"Mrs. Peel, we're needed!"
Rest in peace, Dame Diana. You were one of my most powerful inspirations when I was at a most powerfully impressionable and physically self-conscious young age. I've loved and admired you for more than 50 years.
Rest in peace.
that I received the boxed set for Christmas and haven't finished watching them all. It'll be bittersweet; she will be missed. What a wonderful actress and person, and how lucky we are to be able to visit her still through her work.
Made many moments instant classics, including her final scene. An avenger to the end.
RIP
-Laelth
This is crushing news to me as in my mind Diana Rigg is one of the immortals.
which is a collection of nasty theatrical reviews thru the ages. (With the proceeds going to a theatrical nonprofit)
