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Emma Peel is a fictional character played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers, and by Uma Thurman in the 1998 film version. She was born Emma Knight , the daughter of an industrialist, Sir John Knight.
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her roles include Emma Peel in the TV series The Avengers (1965–1968); Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013–2017); and the title role in Medea in the West End in 1993 followed by Broadway ...
Thorson is best known for her role as Tara King (succeeding Diana Rigg as Emma Peel) in the last series of the British TV adventure series, The Avengers, with the original star Patrick Macnee. [4] She was reunited with Macnee in a commercial for Laurent-Perrier champagne in the mid 1970s, which led to the series reappearing as The New Avengers ...
Rigg became famous when she played secret agent Emma Peel in the British 1960s television series The Avengers from 1961 to 1969. Dame Diana Rigg, who was known for her roles in The Avengers, Game ...
British actress Diana Rigg, who came to fame in the cult 1960s TV show "The Avengers" and enjoyed a distinguished and varied career on stage and screen from James Bond to "Game of Thrones", died ...
Although Macnee was the only actor from the original series to reprise his role, archival footage of Diana Rigg allowed Emma Peel to make a cameo appearance in a second-season episode "K is for Kill: The Tiger Awakes", while Macnee's first co-star, Ian Hendry, made a guest appearance as a different character in the episode "To Catch a Rat".
Diana Rigg bows out as Mrs. Emma Peel and her replacement, Miss Tara King (Linda Thorson), is introduced (the two women pass each other on the stairs, and Mrs. Emma Peel advises Tara King about how to prepare Steed's tea), together with Steed's new boss: a plump, jovial man, code-named 'Mother' (who, in a spoof of the US television series ...
Looking for the culprit, they find a rabbit alive but unconscious, and later the body of the milkman disappears. Steed and Mrs Peel separate and investigate the base further. Mrs Peel discovers the body of the milkman on his float just as a deafening shrill noise and quake shakes through the base. When the noise eventually stops, Steed returns ...