Tanya Roberts

Tanya Roberts holds the unique distinction of having been both a Bond Girl and a Charlie's Angel.

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Her death was announced by Lance O'Brien, whom she knew personally, on 3 January 2021, exactly one day before she actually died. This caused considerable confusion in the news media (online and on television), especially when she died the following day.

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Throughout Roberts's career her birth year was variously reported as 1954, 1955 or 1959, but at the time of her death it was discovered that she had actually been born in 1949.

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Before Tanya Roberts took the lead role in the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985), both Priscilla Presley and Sharon Stone had been considered.

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After her death she was cremated and her ashes were scattered along a walking trail.

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She is the second of Charlie's Angels (1976) to pass away, after Farrah Fawcett in 2009.

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She always claimed to have been born and raised in the Bronx, but she was in fact born in Manhattan and raised in Scarsdale, one of the wealthiest communities in the United States.

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She became the fourth Bond girl to pass away, after Claudine Auger in 2019 and Honor Blackman and Diana Rigg in 2020.

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After producers saw her in Sheena (1984), she took the lead Bond woman role (Stacey Sutton) in A View to a Kill (1985). In an odd coincidence, Roberts chose the name 'Tanya', the lead James Bond woman in the book From Russia with Love.

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While appearing in Vega$ (1978) she was seen by producer Aaron Spelling and was cast in Charlie's Angels (1976). She was the first choice for 10 (1979) with Dudley Moore, but Bo Derek took her place at the last minute.

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Her father's grandfather, Theodor Blum (1883-1962), is described as America's most distinguished oral surgeon.

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According to director Donald Farmer, Roberts turned down the role in Vicious Kiss (1995) that ultimately went to Margaux Hemingway.

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Although she spoke highly of working with Roger Moore (on the Bond film A View to a Kill), Moore stated in his personal writings that Roberts was his least favourite of the seven main Bond women (across his seven films), largely because he felt too little chemistry had been written for their characters.

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Her sister, Barbara Chase, was married to Timothy Leary for 14 years.

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She was the only replacement 'Angel' on Charlie's Angels who never worked with Farrah Fawcett.

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In podcast interviews she stated that at various times in her life she lived in France and in Ontario, Canada.

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She was a lifelong Democrat.

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She was Zach Leary's aunt.

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