32 Facts About Tanya Roberts

Tanya Roberts played Julie Rogers in the final season of the television series Charlie's Angels, Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, Sheena in Sheena, Kiri in The Beastmaster and Midge Pinciotti on That '70s Show.

Tanya Roberts was born Victoria Leigh Blum in 1949 either in Manhattan or the Bronx, New York City, to Oscar Blum and his wife Dorothy.

Tanya Roberts married in 1945 in Weymouth, England, to Dorothy Leigh Smith from Oldham, England.

Tanya Roberts's father was of Jewish descent and her mother was of English or Irish descent.

Tanya Roberts's parents purchased the Scarsdale home new in March 1951 and sold it in January 1958 to buy a property in Greenburgh, New York that same month.

Tanya Roberts's father sold the Greenburgh property on his own in July 1961.

Tanya Roberts began her career as a model in TV ads for Excedrin, Ultra Brite, Clairol, and Cool Ray sunglasses.

Tanya Roberts played serious roles in the off-Broadway productions Picnic and Antigone.

Tanya Roberts supported herself as an Arthur Murray dance instructor.

In 1977, as Barry Tanya Roberts was securing his own screenwriting career, the couple moved to Hollywood.

In 1979 Tanya Roberts appeared in the cult movie Tourist Trap, Racquet, and California Dreaming.

Tanya Roberts was featured in several television pilots which were not picked up: Zuma Beach, Pleasure Cove, and Waikiki.

Tanya Roberts played Julie Rogers, a streetwise fighter who used her fists more than her gun.

Tanya Roberts played Kiri, a slave rescued by protagonist Dar in the adventure fantasy film The Beastmaster, which became a cult film.

Tanya Roberts was featured in a nude pictorial in Playboy to help promote the movie, appearing on the cover of the October 1982 issue.

In 1983, Tanya Roberts filmed the Italian-made adventure fantasy film Hearts and Armour, based on the medieval novel Orlando Furioso.

Tanya Roberts portrayed Velda, the secretary to private detective Mike Hammer, in the television movie Murder Me, Murder You, based on crime novelist Mickey Spillane's iconic Mike Hammer private detective series.

Tanya Roberts declined to continue the role in the Mike Hammer series to work on her next project, the 1984 fantasy movie Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, in which she played the main character.

Tanya Roberts appeared as Bond girl, geologist Stacey Sutton, in A View to a Kill with Roger Moore; the first choice for the role was Priscilla Presley.

Towards the end of the decade, Tanya Roberts recorded the reference footage of The Legend of Zelda used by producers during the creation of the animated adaptation.

Tanya Roberts starred in the erotic thriller Inner Sanctum alongside Margaux Hemingway.

Tanya Roberts appeared on the cable series Hot Line in 1995, and in the video game The Pandora Directive in 1996.

In 1998, Tanya Roberts took the role of Midge Pinciotti on the television sitcom That '70s Show.

Tanya Roberts left the series after the 3rd season in 2001, because her husband had become terminally ill, returning for a few special guest appearances in the 6th and 7th seasons in 2004.

Tanya Roberts was married to Barry Tanya Roberts from 1974 until his death in 2006.

Tanya Roberts wrote the foreword to the book The Q Guide to Charlie's Angels.

Tanya Roberts was described by her publicist as an animal rights activist.

Tanya Roberts was taken to Cedars-Sinai Hospital, where it was determined she had developed a urinary tract infection that had advanced to sepsis.

Tanya Roberts's illness was complicated by her history of hepatitis C The body's immune response to her infection resulted in multi-organ failure.

Tanya Roberts had to be placed on a ventilator to help her with her breathing.

Tanya Roberts's condition deteriorated, and on January 3,2021, she was taken off life support.

Tanya Roberts' death was announced prematurely by her publicist; moreover, her age of death was incorrectly given as 65 by multiple sources.