Bond Girl and the 'That '70s Show' queen, Tanya Roberts announced dead at 65. - NenyKo

The actress Tanya Roberts, known for the James Bond movie “A View to a Kill” and the hit TV sitcom “That ’70s Show,” died at the age of 65.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the actress collapsed while taking her dogs for a stroll on December 24 and was admitted to Cedar-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles until she died on Sunday, January 3.

While the cause of death has not been determined, her team said that she was hospitalised and put on a ventilator, but did not recover from a health condition that was not linked to Coronavirus.

Roberts’ representative and long-time friend Mike Pingel told THR;

“I’m devastated. She was brilliant and beautiful and I feel like a light has been taken away. To say she was an angel would be at the top of the list. She was the sweetest person you’d ever meet and had a huge heart. She loved her fans, and I don’t think she realized how much she meant to them.”

Making her film debut in the 1976 horror movie The Last Survivor, originally named Forced Entry, Roberts is best remembered for her turn as Julie Rogers on ABC’s Charlie’s Angels, joining the show in its fifth season to replace Shelley Hack, and as a Bond girl playing geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985’s A View to a Kill through Roger Moore’s James Bond.

Roberts has also starred in films such as The Beastmaster, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, and Body Slam. In 1998, Midge Pinciotti, mother of Laura Prepon’s sardonic teenager Donna, was the actress in Fox’s That ’70s Show. Later she left the series in 2001 to take care of her terminally ill husband, Barry Roberts, who died in 2006. Roberts last appeared in the episode of Barbershop’s TV adaptation of Showtime in 2005.