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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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Features some early Diana Rigg roles on stage, TV and movies including her first two plays and a list of early Diana Rigg role appearances from 1959 to 1965 prior to BBC The Avengers TV series.
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Some early Diana Rigg role appearances in her early career (before the Avengers in 1965)
Her early stage career
1963 in "The Physicists" - where she played nurse Monica Stettler
1962 in "King Lear" - where she played Cordelia
1962 in "A Comedy of Errors" as Adriana
1962 in "Macbeth" - where she played Lady Macduff
1962 in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - early Diana Rigg role appearance as Helena
1962 in "The Art of Seduction" - playing President de Tourvel
1961 in "The Taming of the Shrew" as Bianca
1961 in "Beckett" as Gwendolen
1961 in "The Devils" playing Philippe Trincant
1961 in "Ondine" where she had multiple roles as 2nd Ondine, Violanta and Berthe
1960 in "The Duchess of Malfi" early Diana Rigg role appearance as a lady
1960 in "A Winter's Tale" as a lady
1960 in "Troilus and Cressida" where she played Andromache
1960 in "The Taming of the Shrew" as a wench
1960 in "Merchant of Venice" as a lady
1959 in "Two Gentlemen of Verona" early Diana Rigg role appearance as a lady
1959 in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as an attendant
1959 in "King Lear" as an attendant
1959 in "Othello" as a citizen
1959 in "Alls Well That Ends Well" early Diana Rigg role appearance as a lady
1958 in "The Passing of The Third Floor Back" as Vivian
1957 in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" as Natasha Abashwilli
Her early film career
1962 in "Our Man in the Caribbean"
Her early teleplays and TV movie career
1965 in "Blood & Thunder: Women Beware Women"
1965 early Diana Rigg role appearance at the Armchair Theatre in "The Hothouse"
TV guest appearances
1964 in "The Comedy of Errors" as Adriana
1963 in "The Sentimental Agent" and "A Very Desirable Plot" as Francy
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The most relevant links we could find, placed here free on early Diana Rigg roles
 The Caucasian Chalk Circle
- learn more about this play which was Diana's first in 1957. www.culturewars.org.uk
SK: Diana Rigg
- more early Diana Rigg credits. www.sk96.de
Her first play - an early Diana Rigg role appearance in The Caucasian Chalk Circle
is a play that so blatantly attacks religion, injustice and social inequality, that it would be challenging to the converted
liberal elite that makes up a modern theatre audience. Undoubtedly the Marxist overtones of Caucasian Chalk
Circle do pose certain difficulties. However, it would have needed a gritty performance by Diana Rigg to have taken on
this role which was so clearly an attack on the inequality of life - a poignant start to her career considering her future role as Emma Peel.
Diana Rigg's second play - The passing of the third floor back
The tenants of an old boarding house are terrorized by an evil slumlord. One day a strange man arrives at the
house and begins to help them with their problems.
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