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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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British actress Diana Rigg, a sexy superspy on TV and beautiful Bond girl in the 1960s who gained a new generation of fans on “Game of Thrones,” died Thursday. She was 82. “She was at home with her ...

When people mention the Avengers, they usually refer to the superhero team in the MCU. However, the TV show The Avengers has nothing to do with the Marvel comics. Instead, it is a British espionage ...

Rigg, who won Emmy, Tony and Bafta awards during her lengthy career on both sides of the Atlantic, passed away six months after being diagnosed with cancer. Simon Beresford, her agent, said in a ...