Tanya Roberts
, an American actress and 'Bond girl', died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 65, after being hospitalized for several days.
Roberts' representative confirmed to 'TMZ' that the actress died on Sunday, January 3, after she fainted at home on December 24 after going for a walk with her dogs.
At the hospital, Tanya was connected to a ventilator for respiratory assistance, but she no longer recovered from the health problem she had, which was not related to COVID-19, according to the aforementioned medium.
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The actress of Irish and Jewish descent, was born on October 15, 1955 and grew up in the New York borough of the Bronx.
At the age of 15, she dropped out of school and went to
hitchhike
across the country
with a young man she married.
Tanya Roberts annulled her marriage and returned to New York, where she enrolled at the Actors Studio to train as an actress.
His first jobs were as an advertising model for television and then he joined some productions on the so-called Off Broadway.
Her debut on the big screen occurred in 1975 with the
thriller
'Forced Entry' and the following year she was part of the cast of the comedy 'The Yum-Yum Girls'.
In 1974 she married screenwriter
Barry Roberts,
with whom she moved to Hollywood in 1977, where she landed roles in such films as 'Fingers', 'Tourist Trap', 'Racket' and 'California Dreaming'.
After several successes on the big screen and due to her great popularity as a model, in October 1982 she became the cover of 'Playboy' magazine.
The 1980s represented several professional successes for Tanya Roberts, as she was selected from 200 candidates to replace
Shelley Hack
in the last season of 'Charlie's Angels', who played Julie Rogers, a young woman who was learned to fight with her fists in the streets.
After that came other successful tapes: 'The Beastmaster', 1982, directed by
Don Coscarell
, and the tape 'Sheena'.
In 1985 she became a Bond girl in the film 'A View to a Kill', which is the fourteenth film based on James Bond and the last in which
Roger Moore played
Agent 007.
One of her most recent roles was on the series' That '70s Show', where she played Midge Pinciotti, Donna's mother, played by Laura Prepon.
In 2001, she left the program to care for her husband Barry Roberts, who died in 2006 after fighting for more than four years with encephalitis, a condition caused by inflammation of the brain.
According to media such as 'The Sun', Tanya Roberts later married
Lance O'Brien
, although the exact date of when their marriage began is not known.
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