Tanya Roberts: Bond woman and That 70’s Show star, dies at 65

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Actor Tanya Roberts, finest recognized for James Bond film “A View to a Kill” and TV collection “That ’70s Show”, has died on the age of 65 after it was prematurely reported by many publications that she had died on Sunday evening. Roberts’ consultant, Mike Pingel, on Tuesday confirmed to Variety that she died Monday evening as a result of a urinary tract an infection that unfold to her kidney, gallbladder, liver and bloodstream.

Pingle, nevertheless, had mistakenly informed many shops the actor, who was present process remedy at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, had handed on Sunday after Roberts’ companion Lance O’Brien presumed she had died.

The consultant later retracted his assertion whereas including her situation was “not looking good”.

The actor took her canine for a stroll on Christmas Eve and collapsed upon returning dwelling. She was placed on a ventilator after being hospitalised, however by no means recovered. Roberts was not ailing within the days main as much as her demise, the publication additional said.

Born as Victoria Leigh Blum, Roberts had a profession modelling and showing in tv commercials earlier than turning to performing in 1975 with the horror film “Forced Entry”.

In 1980, she was chosen to switch actor Shelley Hack within the fifth season of the detective present “Charlie’s Angels”. Roberts performed Julie Rogers, a streetwise fighter who used her fists greater than her gun on the ABC collection.

Her “Charlie’s Angels” co-star Jaclyn Smith remembered Roberts with a throwback picture of herself with the late actor and co-actor Cheryl Ladd on Instagram.

“Tanya joined #CharliesAngels for the ultimate season, closing it out because it was initially supposed with a redhead, a brunette and a blonde.

“She brought joy to so many people and had a career spanning decades. Goodbye angel, Rest In Peace,” Smith, who Smith starred as Kelly Garrett in all 5 seasons of “Charlie’s Angels,” wrote.

Roberts additionally starred in movies like “Racquet” (1977), “The Beastmaster” (1982), and “Sheena: Queen of the Jungle” (1984).

“The Beastmaster” director Don Coscarelli mentioned the actor was “a beautiful person, inside and out”.

“I’ll all the time bear in mind Tanya for being extremely candy and for her real love of animals. She was beloved by ‘Beastmaster’ followers in all places.
RIP,” Coscarelli tweeted.

Roberts later landed her most memorable function within the 1985 James Bond movie “A View to a Kill”. The movie, which was Roger Moore’s final outing as Agent 007 James Bond, noticed Roberts play Stacey Sutton, an American geologist who turns into a goal of villain Max Zorin (Christopher Walken).

From 1998 to 2004, Roberts performed Midge Pinciotti, the lovable however dim-witted mom of the red-haired tomboy Donna Pinciotti (Laura Prepon) on the tv sitcom “That ’70s Show”. She left the present in 2001 to take care of her terminally ailing husband however briefly reprised her function in 2004. Her final on-screen look was in 2005 within the TV collection “Barbershop”.