“It was an extremely overdramatic play called 'Wild Decembers'. It was all about the Brontes, and they all, one after the other, died of tuberculosis. I remember taking every opportunity to cough over other people's lines.”

English actress

Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was an English actress of stage and screen. Born in 1938 and active from the 1950s onward, she was known for work that moved between theatre, television, and film, and for becoming widely recognized through her screen roles. Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in The Caucasian Chalk Circle and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. She became a sex symbol as Emma Peel in The Avengers from 1965 to 1968, played James Bond’s wife in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1969, and made her Broadway debut in Abelard & Heloise in 1971.