They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.

In the 1990s Diana Rigg had triumphs with roles at the Almeida Theatre in Islington including Medea in 1992 (which transferred to the Wyndham's Theatre in 1993 and then Broadway in 1994 for which Diana Rigg received the Tony Award for Best Actress) Mother Courage at the National Theatre in 1995 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Almeida Theatre in 1996 (which transferred to the Aldwych Theatre in 1997). With Stirling Rigg has a daughter actress Rachael Stirling who was born in 1977. Her TV career in America has been varied; anomalously Diana Rigg starred in her own sitcom Diana in 1973 but it was not successful.

She is considered a sex symbol and an icon of 1960s feminism. Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress.