On September 10, 2020 a great actress died, whom we remember for some roles of notable success: Diana Rigg it was the only one to legitimately boast the title of Mrs. Bond, and in more recent years has returned to the small screen with the TV series Game of thrones.
Born in 1938 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Diana Rigg grew up in India along with her parents, who moved there when she was just two months old. At the age of 8, she returned alone to England to study and it is here, in her homeland, that she decided to pursue with all her energy the dream of becoming an actress. Diana ha frequentato la Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, to then debut in the theater immediately receiving the applause of the public.
Among some small roles on TV and in the cinema, she soon arrived his big break: in 1969, Rigg became a Bond girl, a role that over the years has been played by many beautiful women, including Italians Caterina Murino e Monica Bellucci. But Diana was not just any Bond girl, but the only one who managed to bring the famous spy to the altar. In the movie Agent 007 – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the first and only one played by George Lazenby, the actress took on the role of Countess Teresa Draco Di Vincenzo and made James Bond capitulate, giving us a scene that has remained in the history of international cinema.
Diana Rigg has then strung up many other hits, in a brilliant career crowned by several nominations for the most prestigious awards such as the Golden Globes and the Emmy Awards – the latter brought him home in 1997 thanks to the tv miniseries Rebecca. Finally, impossible not to remember her in the TV series Game of thrones, HBO masterpiece: the actress took part in it for several episodes between 2013 and 2017, in the role of the ‘Queen of Thorns’ Olena Tyrell. Still, still in 2017, Rigg starred in some episodes of the TV series Victoria, this time as the Duchess of Buccleuch.
The actress was married twice: in 1973 she married the Israeli painter Menachen Gueffen, a marriage that ended only three years later. She later met Archibald Hugh Stirling, from whom her daughter was born in 1997 Rachael Stirling, also become a movie star. The second union was also short-lived, since divorce came in 1990. In March 2020, Diana Rigg found out she had cancer and on 10 September he left us: at the age of 82, she died surrounded by the warmth of her loved ones.
