Tanya Roberts, Bond girl in ‘A View to A Kill,’ has died at the age of 65, according to her spouse.
Tanya Roberts, who played in the 1985 James Bond blockbuster “A View to A Kill” as well as the legendary TV shows “Charlie’s Angels” and “That ’70s Show,” died on Monday, a day after her publicist Mike Pingel reported her death mistakenly.
Roberts died Monday night, according to her longtime partner Lance O’Brien, who informed USA TODAY on Tuesday. “I’m heartbroken,” O’Brien expressed his feelings.
Pingel told USA TODAY on Tuesday, “I can confirm Tanya Roberts died away last night at 9:30 p.m.” The actress died at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, where she was transported after collapsing while walking her dogs on Christmas Eve, according to him.
Pingel said in a statement that the death was caused by complications from a urinary tract infection that “spread to her kidney, gallbladder, liver, and circulation.”
Roberts died on Sunday night, according to Pingel. According to a video on the show’s official YouTube channel, O’Brien learnt that Roberts was still alive while in the middle of an interview with “Inside Edition” on Monday. When O’Brien received a call from the hospital, he was in the middle of a video conference with a reporter.
“You’re telling me she’s still alive now? Thank God, thank God, thank God, thank God, thank God, thank God, thank Thank you, God “Before breaking down in tears, O’Brien remarked. “I’m overjoyed.”
Roberts’ death was reported by many media sites, including USA TODAY, on Sunday.
The straight-talking actress has spoken with fans in a weekly live programme aired from her own Facebook page, which she most recently participated in on December 19. However, the first concert of 2021, which was slated for January 2, was abruptly cancelled.
Roberts, who was born Victoria Leigh Blum in the Bronx, dropped out of high school at the age of 15 and hitchhiked throughout the United States. She ultimately moved back to New York City and resumed modelling, breaking into the film industry with the 1976 horror thriller “Forced Entry” (later retitled “The Last Victim”).
In the 1982 sword-and-sorcery fantasy adventure “The Beastmaster,” she played Kiri. Roberts played as Sheena, a female counterpart of Tarzan, in the 1984 fantasy “Sheena: Queen of the Jungle.” “Sheena,” which was shot in Kenya and received five Golden Raspberry Awards, including worst actress for Roberts, failed at the box office and with reviewers. The movie would go on to become a cult classic.
In a Dec. 19 fan chat, Roberts stated flatly, “The director botched up everything.”
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Following Shelley Hack’s departure from “Charlie’s Angels,” Roberts had a one-year stint as tough-talking Julie Rogers, who assisted the Townsend Agency investigators in solving murders.
She starred as geologist Stacey Sutton in the film “A View to a Kill,” in which she was the target of Christopher Walken’s villain Max Zorin.