{"id":58,"date":"2013-05-23T11:14:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T11:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/user44356.vs.easily.co.uk\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2020-09-22T16:39:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:39:57","slug":"dame-diana-rigg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/?page_id=58","title":{"rendered":"Diana Rigg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fulneck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Rigg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-207\" src=\"http:\/\/fulneck.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Rigg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diana Rigg was born in Doncaster in 1938 and spent her early childhood in India. She was at Fulneck Girl\u2019s School in the 1950\u2019s. It is fair to say that she did not enjoy her time here &#8211; finding herself at the rather spartan school, as it was then, must have come as somewhat of a shock to her.<\/p>\n<p>On a visit back to school in 2007 she explained to Fulneck School Principal Trevor Kernohan, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that I disliked the School. I just didn\u2019t like the system and I rebelled against it. However I\u2019m sure if my parents had sent me here today I would have been a far less troublesome pupil!\u201d However Dame Diana\u2019s career as an actress started at Fulneck. She was inspired by Sylvia Greenwood, her Speech and Drama teacher, who helped her discover a love for acting.<\/p>\n<p>Dame Diana went on from Fulneck to study drama at RADA. She worked in Repertory theatre and then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company.\u00a0She became a household name playing Emma Peel\u00a0 in the Avengers. Her acting career has been varied and distinguished on stage, television and film. In 1994 she was\u00a0made a Dame of the British Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Dame Diana died at her London home in 2020, at the age of 82.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diana Rigg was born in Doncaster in 1938 and spent her early childhood in India. She was at Fulneck Girl\u2019s School in the 1950\u2019s. It is fair to say that she did not enjoy her time here &#8211; finding herself at the rather spartan school, as it was then, must have come as somewhat of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/?page_id=58\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Diana Rigg<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2368,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/2368"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fulneck.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}