Tanya Roberts, the former Bond girl and “That 70’s Show” actress, died, her publicist announced on Sunday. She was 65 years old.
“I am very sad to have to post this. Yes, Tanya passed away today. I am heartbroken,” said a post on his official Facebook fan page, which was attributed to his publicist, Mike Pingel.
Roberts has been hospitalized since December 24, after he passed out while walking his dogs last month, Pingel told the Hollywood Reporter. His death was not related to COVID-19, the reports say. She was seen conducting live chats with fans recently, on December 19, and said she was in good health.
According to its official Facebook page, one of its fan shows – scheduled for January 2 – has been canceled without explanation.
Tanya Roberts poses at the Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel & Convention Center in Burbank, California, on July 18, 2009. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire / FilmMagic)
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“I am devastated. She was bright and beautiful and I feel like a light was taken out. Saying she was an angel would be at the top of the list. She was the sweetest person you have ever met and had a huge heart. She loved her fans. , and I don’t think she realized how much it meant to them, “Pingel told THR.
Throughout his nearly three-decade career, Roberts appeared in film and television, winning his first prominent role in 1980 in the last season of “Charlie’s Angels”, where he starred as Julie Rogers, a character who helped detectives solve crimes .
“RIP Tanya Roberts. She was one of my favorite Charlie’s Angels. She got her real angel wings today,” wrote a Twitter user.
Later, she appeared alongside actor Roger Moore as a Bond girl in 1985 in “A View to a Kill”. Roberts played Stacey Sutton, an American geologist who becomes the target of the antagonist Max Zorin, played by veteran actor Christopher Walken. The film was the last time Moore played the iconic role.
Roberts was arguably best known to the modern public for his role as Midge Pinciotti, the mother of Donna Pinciotti on the television series “That ’70s Show”.
His character was known for annoying his teenage daughter, while providing comic lightness during dramatic moments on the show.
“‘That 70s Show’ was her favorite show, she really loved doing comedy,” Pingel told The USA Today.
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She left the Fox sitcom in 2001 to care for her terminally ill husband, although she appeared in a few episodes in 2004.
Born in New York as Victoria Leigh Blum, Roberts began a career as a model before moving to the cinema with the 1976 horror film “Forced Entry”.
She married screenwriter Barry Roberts in the 1970s and they stayed together until her death in 2006.
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She leaves her partner Lance O’Brien and sister Barbara.