Diana Rigg

Born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in The Caucasian Chalk Circle and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. She won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role in Medea, both in London and New York. She was made a CBE in 1988 and a Dame in 1994 for services to drama. Her film roles included Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968), Lady Holiday in The Great Muppet Caper (1981), and Arlena Marshall in Evil Under the Sun (1982). She also won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the 1989 BBC miniseries Mother Love and an Emmy for her role as Mrs. Danvers in the 1997 adaptation of Rebecca.

Rigg's personal life was as notable as her professional one. She lived with director Philip Saville for eight years in the 1960s, and she later married and divorced Menachem Gueffen, an Israeli painter. She had a daughter, actress Rachael Stirling, with Archie Stirling, whom she married in 1982 and divorced in 1990. Rigg appeared with her daughter in the Doctor Who episode "The Crimson Horror" (2013). She died on 10 September 2020 at her daughter's home in London, at the age of 82, from lung cancer, which she had been diagnosed with in March of that year. Her body type was slim, and she stood 5'9" tall.