As Emma Peel in a bowler hat and leather boots or as Teresa Bond in The Adventures of Secret Agent 007, she was the most elegant of heroines.
British actress Diana Rigg died today September 10 at the age of 82 just announced
BBC news
.
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Born near Doncaster on July 20, 1938, she was still a child when she accompanied her father to India, where he worked as a railway engineer for the Maharaja of Bikaner.
It was from this man steeped in upper-class good manners that she acquired this supreme distinction which would later make her mark.
She began her career with the theater but very quickly, television noticed her talent.
While the soap opera
Bowler and Leather Boots
grew in notoriety, she replaced Honor Blackman in the role of the essential female partner of the very "British" John Steed (played by Patrick Macnee).
The role of Emma Peel makes her a star in the heart of the swinging sixties.
Eons Productions, the historical producers of the James Bond, then offered her the role of Countess Teresa di Vincenzo, the one and only woman who had succeeded in marrying in fair marriage with the most hardened of the spies of His Most Gracious Majesty, who did not is played no longer by Sean Connery, but by Australian model George Lazenby.
An innate marriage of strength, charm and grace
Many bondophiles believe today that this mission remains the best of the series of adventures of 007. And it certainly owes it to the talent of Diana Rigg, marriage of strength, charm and grace.
Of course, the twenty-first century has not forgotten this.
Ennobled by the Queen, Diana Rigg recently appeared in the
Game of Thrones series
.
She played Lady Olenna Tyrell, a role to her measure.
Diana Rigg died peacefully at home surrounded by her family, the BBC reported, citing her agent.