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 Diana Rigg - The English actress Diana Rigg with access to her biography, Rigg as Emma Peel, pictures of her roles and her private life as dame Diana Rigg.
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Diana Rigg Biography. Her early life, training at R.A.D.A. acting career in Royal Shakespeare her OBE and Dame with some family details in the Diana Rigg biography.
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Diana Rigg biography
Diana Rigg was born 20 July 1938 in Doncaster, England. She moved to India at the age of two months when her father,
a railroad construction engineer, relocated the family there for seven years (that's where she learned to speak Hindi.
Later, on returning
to Yorkshire, she attended Fulneck Girls School in Pudsey .
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After graduating from Fulneck at the age of 17 and after a short-lived engagement, Rigg auditioned for and was accepted
at, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1955. She was still a rebel and even R.A.D.A. was apparently too confining - too
rarefied. It had apparently nothing to do with real life, in fact she was very nearly got thrown out of R.A.D.A. because
she was having a dose of real life on the outside.
Nevertheless, she and R.A.D.A. managed a compromise and she made her professional debut with R.A.D.A. in 1957 as Natella
Abashwili in The Caucasian Chalk Circle. She worked in repertory theatre over the next two years, acting in walk-on
roles to get her Equity card and working as an assistant stage manager.
Diana Rigg biography contd.
In 1959, she signed a five-year contract with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and began to gain recognition.
One of her early roles was Helena, in Peter Hall's A Midsummer Night's Dream. She also played Cordelia to Paul
Scofield's King Lear. In 1969, she also played the role in Peter Hall's filmed version of the play which starred
Helen Mirren, Ian Richardson and Judi Dench. In 1983, she appeared as Regan in Laurence Olivier's King Lear.
Later, whilst highly successful
at the Royal Shakespeare Company, she was literally starving on the meager pay and started moonlighting on television
shows.
An appearance on Armchair Theatre ("The Hothouse") indirectly led to her world-famous role as Mrs. Emma Peel.
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The most relevant links we could find, placed here free
 The Avengers Forever: Diana Rigg
- Original authors material and links to "The Avengers Forever: Diana Rigg". www.theavengers.tv
SK96
- more on Diana Rigg, her life and acting experiences and the continuation of the Diana Rigg biography. www.sk96.de
Trivia Tribute
- Diana Rigg Pictures, Links, Trivia and Merchandise. www.triviatribute.com
Diana Rigg biography summary
Ms. Rigg started her acting career early,
appearing in a school play of "Goldilocks" at the age of thirteen and thereafter expressed a preference for the stage.
By the time she was 22 she had been a clerk, a telephonist and a fashion model (see the links for more on Diana Rigg biography).
Named Commander of the Order of the
British Empire in 1987 and made a Dame in 1994, she has received honorary doctorates from Stirling University and
from the University of Leeds.
Family details of the Diana Rigg biography
Diana's father was Louis Rigg, her mother Beryl Helliwell. She has a brother, Hugh, an officer in the RAF, four years
her elder. She married Menachem Gueffen, an artist, on 6 July 1973 in London, and divorced on 3 September 1976. Her
daughter Rachael Atlanta Stirling was born 30 May 1977. She then married Archibald Hugh Stirling, a theatrical producer
and Scottish laird (full title: Archibald Stirling of Keir) on 25 March 1982 in New York and divorced in 1990. For
more details of the Diana Rigg biography - please follow the links.
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