Dame Diana Rigg, (born July 20, 1938), born Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg, is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayal of Emma Peel in The Avengers and Tracy Bond in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

Diana Riggs as Tracy Bond.

Rigg is particularly known for her role in the British 1960s television series The Avengers, where she played the sexy secret agent Emma Peel. Her career in film, television and the theatre has been wide-ranging, including roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1959 and 1964. Her professional debut was in The Caucasian Chalk Circle in 1955.

On the big screen she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), playing Tracy Bond, James Bond’s only wife. The experience was not a happy one, due to a personality clash with Bond actor George Lazenby. She has often spoken candidly, but amusingly, about the clashes they had on set, and Lazenby himself is now philosophical about this period of his life. Her other films include The Assassination Bureau (1969), The Hospital (1971), Theatre of Blood (in which she plays Vincent Price’s daughter) (1973), and A Little Night Music (1977).

In the 1980s, after reading stinging reviews of a stage performance she had given, Rigg was inspired to compile the worst theatrical reviews she could find into a tongue-in-cheek (and best-selling) compilation, entitled No Turn Unstoned. In 1989, she played Helena ‘Nell’ Vesey in Mother Love for the BBC. Her superb portrayal of an obsessive mother who was prepared to do anything to keep control of her son—even resorting to murder—was enough to win Diana the 1989 BAFTA for best actress.