Rigg

Rigg
(1938– )
an English actor who first became well known playing the part of Emma Peel in the television series The Avengers (1965–8). She also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company (1959–64) and has appeared in many films. More recent stage work has included Medea and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. She was made a dame(2) in 1994.

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