Tanya Roberts still alive
Bond actress, ‘That ‘70s Show’ star in ‘critical’ condition
LOS ANGELES: Former Bond actress and “That ‘70s Show” star Tanya Roberts was battling for her life in a Los Angeles hospital Monday, her publicist said. Her publicist Mike Pingel was earlier quoted by US media saying Roberts had died.
But he told AFP the reports were the result of a “miscommunication” with Roberts’ partner Lance O’Brien.
The actress remained in “critical” condition at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, the publicist said. A CedarsS in a i spokeswoman said the hospital does not confirm or deny the identity of patients as a matter of policy due to privacy laws. According to The Washington Post, Mike told TMZ that Tanya’s husband,
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 realised how much she meant to them. Mike Pingel
Lance, got a call just after 10am on Monday from the hospital saying Tanya was still alive, after he was previously convinced she had passed away.
In a previous statement, Mike had said: “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 realised how much she meant to them.”
After news of her alleged passing first broke, stars flooded social media with tributes to the Bond star. Roberts is best known for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in the 1985 James Bond film ‘A View to a Kill,’ which starred Roger Moore in his last appearance as 007.
Beside her Bond outing, Roberts starred in the 1982 sword-and-sorcery fantasy ‘ The Beastmaster’ and as the title character in ‘ Sheena: Queen of the Jungle,’ a female version of Tarzan which was nominated for five Golden Raspberry Awards and has gone on to become a cult classic.
Other notable movie appearances included ‘Body Slam’ and ‘Night Eyes.’
Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1955, Roberts did some modeling and commercial work before getting her big acting break on the final season of ‘Charlie’s Angels,’ where she played private investigator Julie Rogers helping the team of female crime fighters.
“It was my first steady job, and it launched my career,” Roberts said on her website.
Nowadays Roberts is probably best known for her role in the sitcom ‘That ‘70s Show,’ starring as Midge Pinciotti, the dimwitted mother of Donna, played by Laura Prepon. — AFP