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Tanya Roberts played in the James Bond film "In the Face of Death" (archive image)
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Actress Tanya Roberts died one day after the hoax about her death.
Robert's husband Lance O'Brien told the Associated Press and the New York Times that the hospital had informed him that Roberts was dead.
Spokesman Mike Pingel told the German Press Agency: "It is with a heavy heart that I can confirm the death of Tanya Roberts (65)".
According to Pingel, Roberts died of complications from a urinary tract infection after she collapsed on Christmas Eve.
Several media outlets, including SPIEGEL, had already falsely reported on Monday that Robert had died.
The actress' spokesman had previously mistakenly announced her death.
Pingel later justified the mistake with incorrect information from Roberts' husband Lance O'Brien.
He apparently believed that Roberts had died in his arms on his last visit.
The hospital announced shortly after that the actress was still alive.
But now the actress has died.
"Charlie's Angels" and "The Wild Seventies"
Roberts was born Victoria Leigh Blum in New York City in 1955.
She first worked as a model and dance teacher, and gained her first acting experience in advertising.
In 1980 she replaced Shelley Hack in the fifth and final season of "Charlie's Angels".
The part as angel at the side of Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd in the hit television series was her breakthrough.
Roberts also starred in a number of films that flopped in their day, but later achieved cult status.
In the barbarian film "Beastmaster" (1982), for example, she was the temple slave Kiri, in "Sheena" (1984) she played the lead role, a female version of Tarzan.
The climax of her career followed in 1985 with the role of geologist Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film "In the Face of Death".
It was the last film with Roger Moore as James Bond's secret agent.
Larger film offers subsequently failed to materialize.
Roberts switched to television.
From the late 1990s she could be seen as Midge Panciotti, Donna's not particularly bright mother, in "The Wild Seventies".
Tanya Roberts played her last role in 2005 in the series "Barbershop".
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