The Avengers as Emma Peel, a truly groundbreaking action heroine who managed to best bad guys, run a successful business, and pursue both artistic and scientific hobbies—all while wearing a rather iconic PVC catsuit.
Female characters as tough and as competent as Peel had hardly been seen on screens—big or small—before that. The character became a sensation in England, and laid the blueprint for so many heroines that followed.
In 1969, she appeared as the main Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. To date, her character was the only one who actually managed to get Bond to marry her for romance.
In more recent years, Rigg affirmed her talents among a younger generation as Game of Thrones' acid-tongued noble woman Olenna Tyrell.
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