Tanya Roberts

Born Victoria Leigh Blum
October 15, 1949
New York City, U.S.
Died January 4, 2021 (aged 71)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater Actors Studio
Occupation Actress
Years active 1975–2005
Known for Charlie's Angels
That '70s Show
A View to a Kill
Sheena
The Beastmaster
Spouse Barry Roberts
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​(m. 1974; died 2006)​
Partner Lance O'Brien (?–2021)
Relatives Theodor Blum (grandfather)

Tanya Roberts (born Victoria Leigh Blum; October 15, 1949 – January 4, 2021) was an American actress. Some of her credits include playing Julie Rogers in the final season of the television series Charlie's Angels (1980–1981), Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985), Kiri in The Beastmaster (1982), Sheena in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle (1984), and Midge Pinciotti on That '70s Show (1998–2004).

Tanya Roberts was born Victoria Leigh Blum in 1949 (although long given as 1955) in Manhattan, New York City, to Oscar Blum and his wife Dorothy (née Smith). Oscar Maximilian Blum was born in New York City. Oscar's father, Theodor Blum, did pioneering work in local anesthesia and the use of X-rays in dental care. Theodor was born in Vienna, Austria and immigrated to New York in 1904. Oscar earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1934 and was a first year student in the medical college there. In 1940, Roberts's father was working as an assistant manager for a music publishing house in New York City. He married Dorothy Leigh Smith from Oldham, England in Weymouth, England, in 1945. In April 1945, at the age of 22, Dorothy arrived in New York City. In 1948, Dorothy returned to New York from a trip to England with Roberts's two-year-old sister, Barbara. Roberts's father was of Jewish descent and her mother was of English or Irish descent. It has also been reported that her father was of Irish descent and her mother was Jewish. She had one older sister, Barbara. The 1950 U.S. Census shows that, as of April 1950, the Blum family lived in the hamlet of Hewlett in Hempstead, NY and that Oscar Blum was a sales executive for a pen manufacturer. The Blum family were living in Scarsdale, New York in July 1950, purchasing the property in March 1951, and selling it January 1958. Later in the same month in 1958 Roberts's parents obtained a mortgage to buy a property in neighboring Greenburgh, New York and later sold it in July 1961.