UPDATE 2: Roberts has now reportedly died Monday night, according to her representative.
UPDATE: Roberts' representative is now saying that she is not dead, though she remains in a critical condition in hospital. You can find an updated statement on the matter at TMZ.
Tanya Roberts, who hit a few high points in her career including a role as Stacey Sutton in_A View To A Kill_, has died. She was 65.
Born Victoria Leigh Blum in New York in 1955, Roberts began her career as a model, returning to the city at the age of 15 from Canada (where she had relocated with her mother) and landing work as a fashion and cover model. Acting aspirations followed, and she began studying at the Actors Studio before landing various TV adverts and some work off-Broadway. Supporting herself as a dance instructor in between performances, she then began to find work on TV dramas, landing a role in the fifth and final season of the 1980s Charlie's Angels series.
In addition to her small screen appearances, she began to land roles in films including horror pic Forced Entry and Tourist Trap. Roberts played Kiri in fantasy adventure The Beastmaster, and starred in Sheena: Queen Of The Jungle, which flopped with critics and audiences. Undeterred, she auditioned for, and won, one of her most iconic roles – geologist Sutton in A View To A Kill. "I remember I said to my agent, 'No one ever works after they get a Bond movie,' and they said to me, 'Are you kidding? Glen Close would do it if she could," she told the Mail in 2015. While her career never quite rose to the same heights in cinematic terms again, she worked consistently until around 2015, including as Midge Pinciotti in *That '70s Show.
"I'm devastated. She was brilliant and beautiful and 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 realized how much she meant to them," her longtime representative and friend Mike Pingel told The Hollywood Reporter.