“Some of those early photographs of me might as well be sepia. It's always thought that I disclaim television and am too theatre, but the truth is 'The Avengers' bores me now. I was grateful because it catapulted me into stage stardom. It was good. I'm not ashamed of it. But I only did it for two years.”

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.