Tanya Roberts received a moving tribute from her “Charlie’s Angels” co-star, Jaclyn Smith.
Roberts died on Monday night while he was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
The star’s death was reported by mistake a day earlier, when its representative told various media outlets that she had died when, in fact, she was still alive.
With Roberts’ passing, Smith shared an emotional post in memory of his co-star with a backward photo of her with Roberts and co-star Cheryl Ladd on Instagram Tuesday.
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The 75-year-old “Charlie’s Angels” star wrote “Tanya joined #CharliesAngels in the final season, closing it off as originally planned with a redhead, a brunette and a blonde,” recalls the actress in the caption. “She brought joy to so many people and had a career spanning decades.”
Tanya Roberts died on Monday night after premature reports of her passing. (Photo by Paul Archuleta / FilmMagic)
She concluded: “Goodbye, angel, Rest in Peace.”
Smith starred as Kelly Garrett in all five seasons of “Charlie’s Angels”, which ran from 1976 to 1981.
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Roberts joined the show in his final season as Julie Rogers, starring in a total of 16 episodes alongside Smith and Ladd, on IMDb.
Roberts’ longtime partner, Lance O’Brien, told Fox News on Tuesday that Roberts died on Monday night after being hospitalized for complications from a urinary tract infection (ICU) that he said had spread. to the kidneys, liver and gallbladder before “getting into her blood.”
‘Charlie’s Angels’ stars, from left to right: Tanya Roberts, Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd (photo by Walt Disney Television via Getty Images photo files / Walt Disney Television via Getty Images)
The actress also starred alongside Roger Moore as a Bond girl in the 1985 film, “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 spy.
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However, Roberts was perhaps best known for her role as Midge Pinciotti, Donna Pinciotti’s mother on the hit sitcom “That ’70s Show”. The character was known for annoying her teenage daughter and husband with her naive and hilarious temperament, often bringing moments of levity to her home, often dramatic.
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She left the Fox sitcom in 2001 to care for her terminally ill husband, but briefly reprized her role in 2004.
Tyler McCarthy of Fox News contributed to this report