Diana Rigg

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British actress, an attractive star who established her reputation in Shakespeare but gained international fame and popularity as karate-skilled secret agent Emma Peel in the TV action series "The Avengers" (1965–1968), not to mention the sharp-witted grandmother better known as "The Queen of Thorns" Olenna Tyrell in American fantasy drama TV series "Game of Thrones" (2013-2017). She starred briefly in her own American TV show "Diana" (1973-1974), and played Sutton in "You, Me and the Apocalypse" (2015), and opposite her daughter, Rachel Stirling, in "Detectorists" (2014-). Her films include, "Evil Under the Sun" (1982) and "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969). In 1995 she won a Tony Award for "Medea." On 1 April 1997, she finished a six-month stint on the London stage in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" calling it the most draining role she's played. In the 1960s, Rigg lived for eight years with actor/director Philip Saville, causing some degree of scandal in the tabloids when she disclaimed interest in marrying the older, already-married Saville, saying she had no desire "to be respectable". She was married to Menachem Gueffen, an Israeli painter, from 1973 until their divorce in 1976, and to Archibald Stirling, a theatrical producer and former officer in the Scots Guards, from 25 March 1982, until their divorce in 1990. With Stirling, Rigg has a daughter, actress Rachael Stirling, who was born in 1977. Link to Wikipedia biography