Diana Rigg years of Emma Peel, the BFI (British Film Institute) screened an episode of "The Avengers" followed by an onstage interview with Rigg about her time in the television series. Diana Rigg Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Emma Peel in the 1960s TV series "The Avengers" (1965–68), Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), and Olenna Tyrell in "Game of Thrones" (2013–17). She has also had an extensive career in theatre, including playing the title role in "Medea", both
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel) meeting of late [is] somehow gentler, more sentimental, less "dirty"." However, she considered that "it really is time to stop treating Ian Fleming as a Significant Portent, and to accept him as a good, if rather vulgar thriller-writer, well suited to his times and to us his readers." The "New York Herald Tribune" thought "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" to be "solid Fleming", while the "Houston Chronicle" considered the novel to be "Fleming at his urbanely murderous best, a notable chapter in the saga of James Bond". Gene Brackley, writing in the "Boston Globe" wrote that Bond "needs all the