'Charlie's Angels' Actress and Bond Girl Tanya Roberts Dies at Age 65
UPDATE: Monday afternoon, TMZ reported that Tanya Roberts is actually alive, despite receiving word from both her husband and publicist that she has passed. It is unclear how this miscommunication occured or why Roberts' loved ones believed her to be dead.
Tanya Roberts, the star of the original Charlie's Angels TV show, died on Sunday, January 3 at the Cedar-Sinar Hospital in Los Angeles. The actress reportedly collapsed on Christmas Eve while walking her dog before being admitted to the hospital and put on a ventilator. According to TMZ, her death was not linked to COVID-19, and she did not show signs of illness in the days preceding her passing. An exact cause of death has not been determined at this time.
Roberts' death was announced by her publicist Mike Pingel via a post on a Facebook fan page for the actress. It read, "I'm very sad to have to post this. Yes, Tanya passed away today. I'm heart broken."
In her lengthy career, Roberts was most famous for her work in the 1970s as an model and actress, having posed for Playboy and starred in films like Sheena and The Beastmaker. Considered a sex symbol of the decade, she is notably among the ranks of other Bond girls such as Halle Berry, Jane Seymour, and Rosamund Pike as a result of her role as Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film A View to Kill.
In later years, many knew Roberts for her character Midge Pinciotti, the mother of Donna (Laura Prepon) in That '70s Show alongside Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis. However, she left the series to care for her ailing husband, Barry Roberts, who died in 2006. The couple was married for 32 years. They had no children.
