Victoria Leigh Blum was an American actress, producer, and model professionally known as Tanya Roberts. Renowned for playing Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film A View to a Kill and Julie Rogers in Charlie's Angels' television series. Roberts started her modeling career as a TV ads model for Cool Ray sunglasses, Clairol, Excedrin, and Ultra Brite and played major roles in Picnic and Antigone. She supported herself as a dance instructor. In the summer of 1980, out of 2000 candidates, Roberts was... moreVictoria Leigh Blum was an American actress, producer, and model professionally known as Tanya Roberts. Renowned for playing Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film A View to a Kill and Julie Rogers in Charlie's Angels' television series. Roberts started her modeling career as a TV ads model for Cool Ray sunglasses, Clairol, Excedrin, and Ultra Brite and played major roles in Picnic and Antigone. She supported herself as a dance instructor. In the summer of 1980, out of 2000 candidates, Roberts was chosen to replace Shelley Hack in the fifth season of Charlie's Angels, and she played the character of a streetwise fighter who used her fists more than her gun, Julie Rogers. Roberts, who maintained an active social media presence during the Covid-19 pandemic, hosting zoom and Facebook video chat, wrote the foreword to the book The Q Guide to Charlie's Angels in 2008. Her personality was described as an animal rights activist by her publicist. Roberts fell out of bed and could not get up, On December 24, 2020, and died on January 4, 2021 from a urinary tract infection that entered her organs and bloodstream, leading to a blood infection.
