Tanya Roberts, the one-time Bond girl, and ‘That 70’s Show’ actress has passed away, her publicity announced Sunday. She was 65.
“I’m very sad that I have to post this. Yes, Tanya passed away today. I’m sad.”
Roberts has been hospitalized since Dec. 24 after collapsing when she walked her dogs last month, Pingel told the Hollywood Reporter. Her death is not related to COVID-19, reports say. She was already seen live chatting with fans on December 19 and said she was in good health.
According to her official Facebook page, one of her fan programs – scheduled for January 2 – was canceled without explanation.
Tanya Roberts poses on July 18, 2009 at the Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel & Convention Center in Burbank, California. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire / FilmMagic)
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“I am devastated. She was brilliant and beautiful and I feel like a light has been taken away. To say she was an angel would be at the top of the list. “She was the sweetest person you’ve ever met and she loved her fans, and I don’t think she realized how much she meant to them,” Pingel told THR.
In her career of about three decades, Roberts appeared in both film and television, earning her first prominent role in 1980 in the final season of ‘Charlie’s Angels’, where she starred as Julie Rogers, a character who helped the female detectives has to solve crimes.
“RIP Tanya Roberts. She was one of my favorite Charlie’s Angels. She got her real angel wings today,” one user wrote on Twitter.
She later appeared with actor Roger Moore as a Bond girl in ‘A View to a Kill’ in 1985. Roberts plays Stacey Sutton, an American geologist who becomes a target of antagonist Max Zorin, played by the veteran actor , Christopher Walken. The film was the last time Moore played the iconic role.
Roberts was probably best known to the modern audience for her role as Midge Pinciotti, Donna Pinciotti’s mother in the television sitcom “That ’70s Show”.
Her character was known for annoying her teenage daughter while providing comic vivacity during dramatic moments on the show.
“‘That 70s Show’ was her favorite show, she loved comedy,” Pingel told The USA Today.
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She left the Fox sitcom in 2001 to care for her husband with a fatal illness, although she appeared in a few episodes in 2004.
Roberts was born in New York as Victoria Leigh Blum and began a career in modeling before moving on to films with the 1976 horror film “Forced Entry”.
She married screenwriter Barry Roberts in the 1970s and they lived together until his death in 2006.
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She is survived by her partner Lance O’Brien and sister Barbara.