TANYA ROBERTS, BOND GIRL PASSES AWAY AT 65

Mon 04 January 2021:

Actress Tanya Roberts has died. Best known for her roles as a Bond girl and on “That ’70s Show,” Roberts died Sunday after a brief hospitalization,She was 65. Tanya also enjoyed small-screen star turns in both Charlie’s Angels and That ’70s Show.

First reported by TMZ and confirmed by Entertainment Tonight, Roberts reportedly passed away from health issues unrelated to COVID-19 after collapsing at her home on Christmas Eve.

She was put on a ventilator after being hospitalized but never recovered. The outlet reports that the actress didn’t appear to be ill in the days leading up to her collapse.

According to Roberts’ rep, she passed away at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, and the cause of death wasn’t related to COVID-19.

Roberts’ most notable role is that of geologist and James Bond romantic interest Stacey Sutton, whom she portrayed alongside Roger Moore in 1985’s A View to a Kill. Her earlier career included genre-adjacent roles on both the big and small screens, beginning with horror movie Forced Entry in 1975, the Charlie’s Angels TV series in 1980, and, more recently, as Midge — the matron of the Pinciotti family — on That ’70s Show.

Born Victoria Leigh Blum in New York in 1955, Roberts also starred in the 1982 fantasy film The Beastmaster as Kiri, a slave rescued by protagonist Dar (Marc Singer); as well as the 1984 fantasy movie Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, in which she played the main character.

Roberts also appeared in Murder Me, Murder You, a 1983 made-for-TV movie themed around crime novelist Mickey Spillane’s iconic Mike Hammer private detective.

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