Madame de Bellegarde Diana Rigg Diana Rigg was born in Yorkshire and trained for the Stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After appearing in repertory in Chesterfield and York, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon, in 1959 and made her first appearance in London at the Aldwych in January 1961where in repertory she played Philipe Trincante in The Devils, Gwendolen in Becket, Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, and Madame de Tournel in The Art of Seduction. Returning to Stratford-Upon-Avon in April 1962, she played Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lady Macbeth, Adriana in The Comedy of Errors, and Regan in King Lear. After a year of appearing as Emma Peel in The Avengers, she rejoined the RSC in 1966 to play Viola in Twelfth Night. She followed that with Heloise in Abelard and Heloise and joined the National Theatre in 1971 to play Dottie in Tom Stoppard's Jumpers, Lady Macbeth, and Celimene in The Misanthrope. She played Eliza Dolittle in Pygmailion, returned to the National Theatre in 1976 to play Phaedra in Phaedra Britannica, appeared in Tom Stoppard's Night and Day, Heartbreak House, Little Eyolf, Anthony and Cleopatra, Follies, All for Love, Medea (for which she received The Evening Standard Best Actress Award and won the Tony Award for Best Actress). She played the title role of Mother Courage at the Royal National Theatre. Her most recent role in theatre was in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Her films include The Hospital, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Little Night Music, Evil Under the Sun, and A Good Man in Africa. In 1988, Rigg was decorated as a Commander of the British Empire and, in 1994, was named Dame Commander of the British Empire. Dame Diana Rigg has been host of PBS's MYSTERY! since 1989 and counts among her many television credits Hedda Gabler, Witness for the Prosecution, Bleak House, and Mother Love, a WGBH Boston-BBC co-production which was broadcast on MYSTERY! in 1990. She also starred as Mrs. Danvers in Masterpiece Theatre's Rebecca, a performance for which she earned the 1997 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries. Rigg recently wrapped filming on two new installments of The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries.