[Note: This article is edited material from the book One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg.]. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg initially found fame as super sleuth Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s BBC/ABC-TV espionage series, The Avengers. A compulsive smoker, Rigg died from cancer at 82 in 2020. This is her story…