Rachael Stirling Rachael Stirling Rachael Atlanta Stirling (born 30 May 1977) is an English stage, film and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Laurence Olivier Award for her stage work. She played Nancy Astley in the BBC drama "Tipping the Velvet", and Millie in the ITV series "The Bletchley Circle". She has also appeared in programmes such as "Lewis", and the long-running BBC One science fiction drama "Doctor Who". Stirling is the daughter of actress Diana Rigg and theatre producer Archibald Stirling. Her parents married in 1982 and divorced in 1990. Through her father, she has a long line
S. M. Stirling S. M. Stirling Stephen Michael Stirling (born September 30, 1953) is a French-born Canadian-American science-fiction and fantasy author. Stirling is probably best known for his Draka series of alternate history novels and his later time travel/alternate history Nantucket series and Emberverse series. Stirling was born on September 30, 1953, in Metz, France—then the site of a Royal Canadian Air Force base—to an English mother and Canadian father. He has lived in several countries and currently resides in the United States in New Mexico with his wife Jan. Stirling, along with Eric Flint, was tuckerized as a Secret Service agent in