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Diana Rigg to Guest Star on Doctor Who

Diana Rigg
Diana Rigg

Tony Award winner Diana Rigg and her daughter, Rachael Stirling will guest star on an upcoming episode on the BBC series Doctor Who, according to published reports.


Rigg received the Tony Award and the Evening Standard Award for Medea and a Tony nomination for The Misanthrope. Her many London credits include Pygmalion, Macbeth, Jumpers, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Mother Courage, Follies, and Suddenly Last Summer. Her numerous film and television credits include The Avengers, King Lear, A Little Night Music, and The Painted Veil.


Doctor Who stars Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman.