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Diana Rigg

June 2024

  • Actor Rachael Stirling sitting leaning on turquoise cloth-covered table, against grey background, May 2024

    The ultimate choice: an assisted dying special
    ‘My mother’s death left me with an urgent mission’: Rachael Stirling on sharing Diana Rigg’s views on assisted dying

    Her mother was furious at having no control over the end of her life. Now the actor is channelling that anger into getting the law changed

December 2023

  • Martha Gill

    For many, the case for assisted dying is clear. But life – and death – is often not so simple

    Martha Gill
    Diana Rigg made a compelling argument because she had terminal cancer, but recent experiences abroad suggest a more complex reality
  • A hand being held by another hand

    Two former health secretaries join calls for new law on assisted dying

    Senior Conservative and Labour figures said they would back changes to legislation on the issue in England and Wales

    • Assisted dying campaigners hope to make 2024 ‘tipping point’ for UK legislation

    • ‘Nobody speaks about this’: Diana Rigg made impassioned plea for assisted dying law before death

    • ‘It’s gone on too long. Push me over the edge’: Diana Rigg’s dying wishes in the grip of cancer

June 2022

  • John Bates in 1971. His label Jean Varon created dramatic outfits for special occasions and film and stage performances, plus Princess Margaret on holiday.

    John Bates obituary

    Designer whose costumes for the TV series The Avengers encapsulated fashion’s mid-60s turn towards youth

March 2022

  • Rachael Stirling photographed at the Lyric Hammersmith theatre for the Observer by Pål Hansen, March 2022. Hair and makeup by Sadaf Ahmad.

    When Covid shut the theatres, I became my mother’s carer. Returning feels defiant

    The pandemic closed the play I was starring in, the last my mum, Diana Rigg, ever saw. Two years on, staging a scandalous new play at the same theatre is cause for celebration

January 2022

  • David Suchet

    Beyond Poirot: David Suchet on stage – in pictures

    As his autobiographical show Poirot and More: A Retrospective comes to the West End, look back at the star’s celebrated theatre career

October 2021

  • Wide-eyed … Thomasin McKenzie in Last Night in Soho.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Last Night in Soho review – Edgar Wright’s entertaining Valhalla of toxic 60s glitz

  • Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in The Avengers, 1968.

    Edgar Wright edits Observer New Review
    Diana Rigg remembered: ‘Ma didn’t suffer fools: she exploded them at 50 paces’

September 2021

  • Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Maggie Gyllenhaal on the red carpet for The Lost Daughter.

    Venice film festival 2021 roundup – a formidably good year on the Lido

    Big name directors at their best feature alongside daring visionaries from the farther realms of art cinema – but to whom will Bong Joon-ho’s jury award the Golden Lion?

December 2020

  • Diana Rigg in 1967.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2020
    Diana Rigg remembered by Mark Gatiss

    The actor-writer, who wrote an episode of Doctor Who for Rigg, recalls the joy of seeing her flit effortlessly between serious drama and pure camp

September 2020

  • FILES-BRITAIN-CULTURE-MEDIA-TELEVISION-FILM-DEATH<br>(FILES) This file photo taken on January 29, 1970 shows British actress Diana Rigg, best known for playing Emma Peel in the 1960s TV series “The Avengers”. - Diana Rigg, star of ‘The Avengers’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ has died at the age of 82, her agent has said. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

    Letter: Dame Diana Rigg obituary

  • Diana Rigg and director Edgar Wright on the set of their film Last Night in Soho

    Cinema, Campari and a carrier bag of Quality Street: Edgar Wright remembers Diana Rigg

  • Diana Rigg Actress 01 May 1961 01 May 1961 CTC4498 Allstar Picture Library **Warning** This Photograph is a publicity still &amp; can only be used for editorial purposes. Allstar Picture Library do not own the copyright of this images as it was supplied by a production/publicity/PR company or department of a film/music company for promotional purposes around the time that the photograph was taken. No commercial use can be granted for the use of this image.

    As Diana Rigg's understudy, I never tired of watching her – she was splendid

    Margaret Drabble
  • Ready for action … Diana Rigg as The Avengers’ Emma Peel.

    Dressed to kill: how Diana Rigg became a 60s style icon

  • Diana Rigg: star with an independent streak to match her glamour

  • Diana Rigg: a life in pictures

  • Diana Rigg, Avengers and Game of Thrones star, dies aged 82

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