British actress Diana Rigg, who came to fame in the cult 1960s TV show The Avengers and enjoyed a distinguished and varied acting career from James Bond to Game of Thrones, has died aged 82.
Rigg won numerous Emmy, Tony and Bafta awards during her long and prestigious career, often switching between traditional theatre roles and ones for popular television.
She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1994 for services to drama.
But it was her role as the karate-kicking, leather-clad secret agent Emma Peel in The Avengers that brought her to wide attention and made her a style icon of the 1960s.
She went on to star in the James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, in which her character marries the British spy.
Rigg’s character in the film was the only woman to marry James Bond.
In the 21st century, she was best known for playing scheming matriarch Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones — via ABC News
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