Tanya Roberts was an actress who began her career in the ’70s up to the first couple of years of this century. She had appeared in good films and she has appeared in films that drove the critics mad on their typewriter, hitting off negative reviews. And she loved. And she made mistakes.
There are many aspects of the star you need to know. You just have to know. We did our research and this is what we have – figures.
Age and early life
1955 – The year Tanya Roberts was born. She was born on October 15 to a salesman in the Bronx, New York City. There were two of them, herself and an older sister named Barbara. Tanya has Jewish (from her mother’s side) and Irish ancestry. Her given name is Victoria Leigh Blum.
15 – The age at which Roberts dropped out from High School in Toronto where she lived with her mom and went hitchhiking across the United States of America.
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1 – The number of illegal marriages she has had. Yes, while hitchhiking across the United States, she married a hippy. As she was less than the age of consent, her mother-in-law, God bless her soul, grabbed the marriage and had it annulled and released the poor girl from the shackles of underage marriage and the burden of an unprepared union.
Tanya Roberts – career
1975 – The year Tanya Roberts made her acting debut. It was an R-Rated horror film titled “Forced Entry”. Before now, Tanya was a model who appeared on TV ads for brands including Cool Ray Sunglasses. She was also a stage actor who appeared in off-Broadway productions. It was these she used to sustain herself on those thin days while studying to be an actor and waiting for that big break.
16 – The number of episodes she played in “Charlie’s Angels”. The detective television series on ABC. Roberts joined the show in 1980 in the fifth season after four seasons of Shelley Hack playing Julie Rogers, the street fighting detective.
To replace Hack, the producers considered 2000 candidates for this role and it was a big deal that Tanya Roberts got the role. But her performance didn’t get rave reviews. In fact, it was so bad that many counted her as one of the major reasons the fifth season got lower ratings.
ABC kept swapping the time slot of the season until they finally canceled any idea of a sixth season.
5 – The number of seasons in which Ms. Roberts played a part in “The ’70s Show”. She played the role of Midge Pinciotti, a dim-witted sexy regular neighborhood mom who is not so regular after all. Tanya began playing the role in 1998. In 2000, she left the show after three seasons to take care of her husband who was terminally ill. She returned to the show in the sixth and seventh season in guest star capacity.
1994 – The year Roberts last appeared in a feature-length film. She is more of a TV star anyway and has far fewer credits in that regard. At some point, things were even worse. In 1984, she played a major part in the disastrous film, “Sheena: Queen of the Jungle”. The film bombed so hard Roberts got the nomination for “Worst Actress” at the Razzie Awards.
1 – The number of films she has produced. “Sins of Desire” is the name of the film. 1993 is the year. She was an associate producer. A producer is a producer.
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60 – The number of months or five years that Roberts spent trying to cure herself of the Bronx accent in her voice. It must have been so thick and it must have been so bad to warrant for such commitment. Perhaps, if she went to college, the Bronx wouldn’t have had such unrelenting hold on her vocal cords.
Tanya Roberts – personal life and figures
’74 – The year she got married to screenwriter Barry Roberts. He was a student when they met. She must have loved him so much and believed in a lifetime of bliss with him that she went on to do the asking – she proposed to him and he said yes. They got married and would remain married until his death in 2006.
The marriage produced no offspring.
10 – The number of millions Robert Tanya has to her name. She is a very rich woman. And for someone who stopped acting in 2005, this is a big deal.
378 – The number of times you dreamed you ran into her in a mall. Wishes ain’t horses, so no, you can’t ride.
Cause of Death
The cause of death of Tanya Roberts has not been disclosed as of the time of writing this. No, the novel coronavirus is not the cause of her death. Her death which was rather tragic occurred on Sunday 27 December 2020. Tanya collapsed on December 24 2020 and was taken to Ceder-Sinar Hospital Los Angeles, where she remained on admission for days before she passed on.
She is survived by her partner Lance, and her sister Barbara
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