The Passing of Diana Rigg
 Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE July 20, 1938 – September 10, 2020 |
She was one of the first television personalities I viewed as "hot" and I would watch episodes even though my understanding of the plot and characters was limited in my young age.
It was all interesting to me to see this beautiful woman engage others at various levels and the intermittent action was an added plus.
She had other character roles over the years. My most recent following of her career was her portrayal of Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones and the shocking ending of her death by poison and admitting to killing the evil Joffrey Baratheon just before the toxin provided to her by Jaime Lannister took her life.
I must admit not knowing who she was until late "in the game" as it were.
Ah, hers was a life of stage and screen and in the end she was able to reflect happily and laugh as her life drew to a close. Our lady, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire succumbed to to cancer which had been diagnosed in March at her London home.
I will always view her and her art with a fondness borne of my youth and that childhood attraction of a young boy for a beautiful woman above his awareness and beyond his reach on the television screen. It's the stuff of magic.
Rest in peace.