Game Of Thrones and Avengers star died six months after being diagnosed with cancer, he agent confirmed. Among the tributes were Sir David Hare, who said: ‘Diana Rigg had a dazzling change of direction in middle age as a great classical actor.
When Emma Peel played Euripides’ Medea, Albee’s Martha and Brecht’s Mother Courage she swept all before her.’Sir Tom Stoppard added: ‘For half her life Diana was the most beautiful woman in the room, but she was what used to be called a trooper. ‘She went to work with her sleeves rolled up and a smile for everyone.
Her talent was luminous.’Newsreader Kay Burley shared a photo of Dame Diana, writing: ‘RIP Diana Rigg. She was 82 and an absolute superstar x’.
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