Diana Rigg

Age: 71
Height: 5' 8 1/2"

Birth Place: Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
Born: Jul. 20th, 1938

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NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

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She was awarded the 1996 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performances in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Mother Courage.".
Her ex-husband, Archibald Stirling, is the nephew of Colonel Sir David Stirling, founder of the Special Air Service (SAS).
Born in Yorkshire, the daughter of a railroad engineer, she moved with her family to India at the age of two months and lived there until she was 8. (She learned to speak Hindi.).
Earned Tony nominations as Best Actress (Dramatic) for "Abelard and Heloise" (1972) and for "The Misanthrope" (1975). She won the Best Actress (Play) Tony Award in 1994 for her performance in the title role of "Medea." In recent years, her performances in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Mother Courage and Her Children" have led critics to proclaim her one of the greatest actresses on the British stage.
She was nominated for 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Play of 1996 for her performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
Graduated from RADA.
She was awarded the 1992 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Medea.".
Was forced to turn down the role of Elizabeth in _Paint Your Wagon (1969)_ (qv) with 'Clint Eastwood' (qv), due to illness. 'Jean Seberg' (qv) replaced her.

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