Dame Diana Rigg is DEAD TO ME!

The most intelligent Bond girl. RIP

She was incredible in the miniseries Mother Love.

Shershei.

Her portrayal of Olenna should be a DL standard.

We need the equivalent of the canonization process on DL, as she clearly should be DL saint.

RIP sweet angel. Thanks for being the shining light of Game of Thrones in your old age, spreading your craft to a new, younger generation.

Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me.

A true Dame.

Diana Rigg was not a sweet angel. She was witty, wise and no bullshit.

Sounds angelic to me.

2 years ago I sat next to Diana Rigg at a Tonys party. She was in My Fair Lady--at 80. She told me it was a great role because she could get tons of reading done btw scenes. Then she gave me her phone and said, "Find Uber on this and get me the hell out of here." RIP to a great.

She's fine! She sends her love!

[quote] Her portrayal of Olenna should be a DL standard.

I entirely missed that show but love Dame Diana.

Was she the bitch that rang the Shame bell?

"Random Roles" interview. Worth a read.

[Quote] Vincent Price asked me if I’d go with him to a charity show, Cowardy Custard at the Mermaid Theatre. I went to the loo at the interval and Coral Browne was in the next door cubicle and she suddenly said [imitating Browne’s nasal drawl], “It’s a long time since I’ve fancied a man of me own age, but I fancy Vincent Price.” So in the car on the way home, Vincent said, “It’s Coral’s birthday next week. What can I get her?” And I said, “You have it on your person. Look no further.”

The Lady Olenna of House Tyrell

Can't she afford a good wig?

Fabulous

Rest in peace, Dame Rigg. You will be forever remembered as Mrs. Emma Peel by an adoring generation of viewers.

I always liked her. Was it COVID?

Normally I snicker at datalounge's 'dead to me' line. But this time it made me sad. Dame Rigg was talented, attractive and I would assume- extremely cool to know. RIP

Loved her.

[Quote] You will be forever remembered as Mrs. Emma Peel by an adoring generation of viewers.

I'd prefer Medea.

So young! Gone too soon!

Quite a different take on Mrs. Danvers, but very memorable.

Farewell Mrs. Peel....

So young.

Loved her on GoT. But she looked older than her years. She's younger than Joan Collins!

Wow!

She hated feminism and said that women have it easier.

Mark Harris loves a good death -- a perfect opportunity to name drop.

It wasn’t COVID. Her daughter (Rachael Stirling) announced that the had been diagnosed with cancer in March: “My Beloved Ma died peacefully in her sleep early this morning, at home, surrounded by family. She died of cancer diagnosed in March, and spent her last months joyfully reflecting on her extraordinary life, full of love, laughter and a deep pride in her profession. I will miss her beyond words." I remember her Medea in the West End fondly.

She was a child!

This one hurts. She was one of the first celebrities I idolised as a child. I fell in love with her as the Evil Queen in the Golan Globus Snow White, and used to stay up to watch her Masterpiece Theatre intros.

Basically, she made me gay.

I suspect Rachael was the love of Diana's life. I hope Rachael's own child is of some comfort to here. The cycle of life continues.

*comfort to her

I loved her. I wanted to be her.

So young

[Quote] spent her last months joyfully reflecting on her extraordinary life

I wonder if that might mean a book is forthcoming. Perhaps she dictated her words.

I hope she finds those flying buttresses she so sorely lacked up above.

Her performance in In This House of Brede stuck with me all these years. Probably because it was such a departure from Mrs. Peel in The Avengers.

Aww! I loved her movies! I’m a bit irritated though how out of all the things she did, headlines just keep mentioning Avengers and Game of Thrones. Avengers I understand mentioning but she was only in 18 episodes of GOT. Guess it’s clickbait for the GOT fans.

I thought we found some 107 year old lady to be the new Too Young but can't remember who it was

She talks about her MeToo moment with Peter Brook after 34:55.

She refuses to name him here, I presume to avoid a lawsuit. (3:27)

R24, that made me cry. What a loss.

RIP!!!

R2 - yes, Mother Love was truly excellent.

I remember seeing a repeat of Mother Love as a very young child. I thought Diana Rigg was ancient. Now that I look at pics of her, she doesn't look bad at all, though I think she got her eyes done shortly afterwards.

Loved her. RIP.

RIP Mrs Peel. You were wonderful. Give our regards to Steed.

Diana Rigg would not appreciate being addressed as Mrs. Peel.

After years of modeling on her cool in the face of destruction, I will now have to embrace my own cool. Farewell, Mrs. Peel.

[quote] Diana Rigg would not appreciate being addressed as Mrs. Peel.

Drop dead, you heathen.

Here is Mrs. Peel joining the Antifa Umbrella Brigade.

It would be nice if they dedicated the upcoming Bond movie to her.

She was one of a kind and will be sorely missed.

Rest in peace.

Best Bond Girl ever

[Quote] Drop dead, you heathen.

You're wishing your childhood an RIP. Diana Rigg was more than Emma Peel. If you respected her, you'd send her off with her actual name. She mellowed towards The Avengers in her later years but she earned less than the cameraman in her first season on the show. And she refused to sign old pictures of herself. Diana reinvented herself many times over. Her greatest reinvention was in the wake of adultery commited by her husband with Joely Richardson. She'd lost her place by taking time out for motherhood. Rigg began taking on great roles in small theatres, eventually re-building her stage career to its greatest height with Medea.

[quote] Her greatest reinvention was in the wake of adultery commited by her husband with Joely Richardson.

That trollop! How dare she!!! Thanks for the skinny. Never heard that before. There is an old picture of her and Helen Mirren in some show they did and I wondered if the fact that Rigg had a child set her back. Who knows. But her daughter, Rachel Stirling, is lovely and a very good actress.

Here she is with Helen Mirren in 1968 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Has anyone mentioned Theatre of Blood yet? What a wonderfully dark comedy.

A true legend, Dame Diana Rigg.

Nobody’s going to mention Theatre Of Blood?????

I loved her in The Detectorists.

Diana Rigg & Maggie Smith play rivals in "Evil Under the Sun" (1982) with DL fave Nicholas Clay:

[quote] The most intelligent Bond girl. RIP

As if.

She was the Top!

She looks so much like her daughter in that scene. Or rather her daughter looks so much like her which is funny because the daughter never looked like the younger Diana Rigg when she played Emma Peel.

Cane’s

She's like a cat but not happy like Lee Weather in the Bat

Also loved her as Charlotte in A Little Night Music

She was also in a new 'Doctor Who' episode a few years ago:

Both her and her daughter were in that episode, r67.

Natalie Dormer, played her character’s granddaughter on Game of Thrones. She bears a slight resemblance to a young Diana Rigg.

Her Hedda is on Youtube.

She was so great, i was jusr watching Evil Under the Sun, where she plays a glamorous but somewhat thankless role. Rip

I barely remember this TV movie she did In This House of Brede. It was about women in a nunnery and mothers and daughters and relationships.

I recall there being a lot of sadness; I didn't understand what it was about but I recall my mom watching it and being sad.

I knew her -actually went out on a date with her once. Marvelous lady - intelligent, beautiful, and passionate.

I miss her already!

Mrs. Peel's first appearance.

Tension, banter, wit.

R72, In This House of Brede was about an executive I think and her daughter fell down a well and couldn't be rescued. So this high powered woman fell apart and then became a nun.

Does anyone know if this site is reliable/honest?

They have Mother Love and I'd like to buy it.

I want her to know it was me.

WHY do they always deliver the bullshit "died peacefully in her sleep early this morning, at home, surrounded by family."??? Odd how family gets there just in time.

I'll always feel sorry that Diana Rigg had to co-star with that fat fug Patrick Macnee.

They were good friends up to the day he died.

R75, yeah, I recall her being angst over a lost child and then a young nun came into the nunnery and then didn't SHE die, too?

The movie ended SPOILER ALERT with Rigg's character leaving and going off somewhere else, maybe to another convent?

Sucks to lose both your own child and then a surrogate. You have to wonder what life is telling you.

How convincing, R79

[quote] I knew her - actually went out on a date with her once.

She dated gay guys?

Yes, she did. When she wanted a companion but didn't want to get physical...

She made a fortune in property apparently and flipped a house she bought for £1 2 Million for £3.2Million in 2016. She also seemed to have owned apartments in Maida Vale, London in the 1970's because she evicted David Bowie from one. Not bad for someone who didn't have much of a movie career.

[Quote] WHY do they always deliver the bullshit "died peacefully in her sleep early this morning, at home, surrounded by family."??? Odd how family gets there just in time.

She may have been given an excess amount of morphine. It's not talked about but it does happen.

It's not always a surprise when people die, if they knew she was at death's door they may have gathered around her

Does anyone have a link to this conversation?

[Quote] If you can access Larry Guittard’s Facebook page, checkout the “conversation” he had with Christopher Guard (Erich/Henrik) on the day Diana Rigg died, regarding the film of Night Music. Apparently Guittard does *not* like Len Cariou, and having Cariou take over as Henrik was his “worst nightmare.” But the juiciest stuff is about Robert Stephens, who was fired because he was constantly drunk.

Her voice sounds so different to recent years. I wonder if the cancer was smoking related.

R80, it was long ago when I saw it (and then read the book) but she gets very close to a younger nun who was the same age as her daughter would’ve been. I forget what happens but it all comes to a head and Rigg’s character realizes she can’t “hide out” in the convent anymore and she transfers to a new convent being established in Japan.

Actually I don’t remember much except the first scene where she arrives in a town with a suitcase, goes to a pub and orders whiskey. I think she sat there all day drinking before she makes her way to the convent. The order she joins is contemplative. They don’t have contact with the outside world unlike nursing (Call the Midwife) or teaching or missionary orders.

It might be on YouTube.

You can catch her in the poky, "cozy" 1982 remake of WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION on YouTube. In the Dietrich role(s).

She didn't do many romantic roles, did she? Was she seen as too formidable? She was a big woman - that may have had her stricken from casting lists where the male lead was small in size/stature.

My ex lived with her when they were doing a play together and he claimed she’d smack him around! This was right before Emma Peel and he joked that at least he was outta there before she got formal fight training.

Was your ex Barry Dennen?

[quote]Actually I don’t remember much except the first scene where she arrives in a town with a suitcase, goes to a pub and orders whiskey. I think she sat there all day drinking before she makes her way to the convent.

Drinking and chain-smoking. That's the scene I remember most vividly, also.

R77 thanks for that post, I almost peed myself laughing at some of those

No, R93. It was Brian Murray, who died a few years ago. He was at the RSC with Rigg. He also lived with Vanessa Redgrave for a bit and said she had body odor issues and her Trotskyite politics were deeply tiresome.

Ah. Brian Murray also worked with Honor Blackman. Did he have anything to say about her?

R97, he adored her.

Is anyone watching Masterpiece Mystery right now? I just looked up and I think they had a title card honoring Diana Rigg.

(Van de Valk opens with a high speed chase...on bicycle.)