As Emma Peel, the butt-kicking spy in The Avengers, the British actress Diana Rigg was a '60s TV icon. From 1965 to 1968, she ...

Actress Dame Diana Rigg, famous for roles including Emma Peel in TV series The Avengers and Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, has died at the age of 82. Her daughter, actress Rachael Stirling ...

Mrs Peel is kidnapped by an eccentric film director, who wants her as a leading lady in his latest film, The Destruction of Emma Peel. Will movie stardom be the death of her?

It told the typically bizarre story of how Rigg's character Emma Peel and her secret agent colleague John Steed - played by Patrick MacNee - visited a home for retired railwaymen to investigate a ...