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
Mary Anne Stirling Mary Anne Stirling Mary Anne (Fanny) Stirling (1815 – 28 December 1895) was an English actress renowned for her comedy roles in a career for over fifty years. Stirling was born in Mayfair on 29 July 1815, the daughter of Mary Ann (born Spense) and a spendthrift father Captain Simon Kehl. She appeared at the Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel in January 1832. Later that year she married the playwright Edward Lambert. They worked together and they were known as Mr and Mrs Stirling and her husband's first play was "Sadak and Kalasrade" which was performed in Theatre Royal, Birmingham in 1835.