Actor
Tanya
Roberts,
best
known
for
James
Bond
movie
A
View
to
a
Kill
and
TV
series
That
'70s
Show,
has
died
at
the
age
of
65
after
it
was
prematurely
reported
by
many
publications
that
she
had
died
on
Sunday
night.
Roberts'
representative,
Mike
Pingel,
on
Tuesday
confirmed
to
Variety
that
she
died
Monday
night
due
to
a
urinary
tract
infection
that
spread
to
her
kidney,
gallbladder,
liver
and
blood
stream.
Pingle,
however,
had
mistakenly
told
many
outlets
the
actor,
who
was
undergoing
treatment
at
Cedars-Sinai
Medical
Center,
had
passed
on
Sunday
after
Roberts'
partner
Lance
O'Brien
presumed
she
had
died.
The
representative
later
retracted
his
statement
while
adding
her
condition
was
"not
looking
good".
The
actor
took
her
dogs
for
a
walk
on
Christmas
Eve
and
collapsed
upon
returning
home.
She
was
put
on
a
ventilator
after
being
hospitalised,
but
never
recovered.
Roberts
was
not
ill
in
the
days
leading
up
to
her
death,
the
publication
further
stated.
Born
as
Victoria
Leigh
Blum,
Roberts
had
a
career
modelling
and
appearing
in
television
advertisements
before
turning
to
acting
in
1975
with
the
horror
movie
Forced
Entry.
In
1980,
she
was
chosen
to
replace
actor
Shelley
Hack
in
the
fifth
season
of
the
detective
show
Charlie's
Angels.
Roberts
played
Julie
Rogers,
a
streetwise
fighter
who
used
her
fists
more
than
her
gun
on
the
ABC
series.
Her
Charlie's
Angels
co-star
Jaclyn
Smith
remembered
Roberts
with
a
throwback
photo
of
herself
with
the
late
actor
and
co-actor
Cheryl
Ladd
on
Instagram.
"Tanya
joined
#CharliesAngels
for
the
final
season,
closing
it
out
as
it
was
initially
intended
with
a
redhead,
a
brunette
and
a
blonde.
"She
brought
joy
to
so
many
people
and
had
a
career
spanning
decades.
Good
bye
angel,
Rest
In
Peace," Smith,
who
Smith
starred
as
Kelly
Garrett
in
all
five
seasons
of
"Charlie's
Angels,"
wrote.
Roberts
also
starred
in
films
like
Racquet
(1977),
The
Beastmaster
(1982),
and
Sheena:
Queen
of
the
Jungle
(1984).
The
Beastmaster
director
Don
Coscarelli
said
the
actor
was
"a
beautiful
person,
inside
and
out".
"I
will
always
remember
Tanya
for
being
incredibly
sweet
and
for
her
genuine
love
of
animals.
She
was
beloved
by
'Beastmaster'
fans
everywhere.
RIP,"
Coscarelli
tweeted.
Roberts
later
landed
her
most
memorable
role
in
the
1985
James
Bond
film
A
View
to
a
Kill.
The
film,
which
was
Roger
Moore's
last
outing
as
Agent
007
James
Bond,
saw
Roberts
play
Stacey
Sutton,
an
American
geologist
who
becomes
a
target
of
villain
Max
Zorin
(Christopher
Walken).
From
1998
to
2004,
Roberts
played
Midge
Pinciotti,
the
lovable
but
dim-witted
mother
of
the
red-haired
tomboy
Donna
Pinciotti
(Laura
Prepon)
on
the
television
sitcom
That
'70s
Show.
She
left
the
show
in
2001
to
care
for
her
terminally
ill
husband
but
briefly
reprised
her
role
in
2004.
Her
last
on-screen
appearance
was
in
2005
in
the
TV
series
Barbershop.