Diana rigg nude scene

In the early '70s Rigg starred in a production of Abelard and Heloise , a play based on the love letters of a young woman in the Middle Ages and her tutor. The play opened in New York in and was staged the next year in London. The clothes were made of cheap, shiny fabrics that easily got hitches in them like stockings. I resisted squandering my paycheck on them, saving so I could travel with my boyfriend on his high school graduation trip to Ireland and England. We got rail passes and stayed in bed and breakfasts that cost a couple of pounds and served us fresh eggs and tomatoes with actual taste, unlike the ones I'd grown up on. His relatives in Galway took us to an after hours bar in a hotel basement.

Diana Rigg played "Bond Girl" Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo, the only woman ever to marry the secret agent though it didn't end well. Dame Diana - who gained fame in the s spy series "The Avengers," and won a Tony Award for playing Greek tragedy - found a new generation of fans with her Emmy-nominated performance as the conniving Queen of Thorns in "Game of Thrones. Diana Rigg became an international sensation as Mrs. Emma Peel in the s British spy series, "The Avengers. Peel was embraced the way she was? Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg was born in Yorkshire, England, in , and acting was the only career she ever really wanted.

To the younger amongst us she is best known these days for playing Olenna Tyrell in four series of Game of Thrones. After a dozen episodes, however, she found out that she was being paid less than a cameraman. In she was reported for saying:. Not one woman in the industry supported me … Neither did Patrick [Macnee, her co-star]… But I was painted as this mercenary creature by the press when all I wanted was equality. Rigg smoked 20 cigarettes a day for over fifty years and only gave up in

It was a performance that earned her a prestigious best actress nomination. But Dame Diana Rigg has revealed how her notorious nude scene in play Abelard and Heloise was lambasted by one theatre critic who chided her on the size of her breasts. The year-old actress recalled starring in the play on Broadway in New York. It tells the story of the twelfth-century romance between a priest and the head of a convent in France. Criticised: Diana Rigg's assets, seen here in James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service from , were branded 'insufficient flying buttresses' by a critic in