The acting community is in mourning with the news that beloved actress Tanya Roberts, best known as a former Bond girl and Charlie’s Angel, has passed away at 65 years of age.
The actress went out for a walk with her dog on Christmas Eve and came home and suddenly collapsed, according to TMZ.
Roberts was then taken to a local hospital and put on a ventilator, but sources say she “never got better” and passed away on Sunday.
Mike Pingel, who moderated live Q&A sessions with Roberts for her fans, took to her official Facebook page on Sunday to confirmed she had passed away.
“I am very sad to have to post this. Yes, Tanya passed away today. I’m heart broken. Mike Pringel,” he said.
Before her collapse, sources told TMZ that she seemed ‘perfectly healthy’ and was enjoying video chats with her fans. 
Confirmed: Mike Pringel, who moderated live Q&A sessions with Roberts for her fans, took to her official Facebook page on Sunday to confirmed she had passed away.
Roberts was born Victoria Leigh Blum in October 1955 in the Bronx, starting her career as a fashion model in her late teens.
She married Barry Roberts when she was just 19, and started studying to become an actress at The Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen, where she started using her stage name Tanya Roberts.
As Roberts’ screenwriting career started to advance, the couple moved to Los Angeles in 1977, which paid off in a big way three years later.
Roberts was picked over 2,000 other actresses to replace Shelley Hack in the fifth season of Charlie’s Angels, playing Julie Rogers.
She would go on to play the title character in Sheena before she was elevated to ‘Bond girl’ status in 1985’s A View To A Kill.
New Angel: Roberts was picked over 2,000 other actresses to replace Shelley Hack in the fifth season of Charlie’s Angels, playing Julie Rogers.
She played geologist Stacey Sutton alongside Roger Moore in his seventh and final James Bond movie.
Roberts continued to work regularly with roles in films such as Body Slam, Twisted Justice, Purgatory and Legal Tender, written by her husband Barry Roberts, who passed away in 2006.
She returned to the small screen in the late 1990s, playing Rebecca in Hot Line and Midge Pinciotti in the hit Fox series That 70s Show.
This article first appeared in The Daily Mail.
