--- name: "Tanya Roberts" canonical: "https://film.one/person/tanya-roberts" roles: ["Actor"] born: "15 October 1949" died: "4 January 2021" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-18T11:35:11.970544+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Tanya Roberts Actor. Born 15 October 1949 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 4 January 2021. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 15 October 1949, New York City, New York, USA - **Died:** 4 January 2021 - **Also known as:** Victoria Leigh Blum, Таня Робертс, Виктория Ли Блюм - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Roberts, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q232356, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000617/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10660 ## Fi1m on Tanya Roberts > Tanya Roberts had one look, a wide and level stare, and 1980s genre cinema photographed it without ever asking what was behind it. Fantasy films read it as fearlessness, Bond read it as helplessness, and only a sitcom worked out it was funny. Tanya Roberts has one expression on screen and she holds it. It is a wide, level, faintly astonished stare, and in the fantasy films of the early 1980s it reads as nerve: a woman looking at something monstrous without blinking. Put the same face in a thriller and it reads as someone waiting to be told what happens next. Most of her career in cinema turned on which of those two readings the film around her needed. She trained at the Actors Studio and worked on the New York stage before television found her, replacing Shelley Hack for the last season of *Charlie's Angels* in 1980. That led to a run of leads in genre pictures: Kiri in *The Beastmaster* (1982), the title part in *Sheena* (1984), and then Stacey Sutton in *A View to a Kill* (1985), opposite Roger Moore in his last outing as Bond. It is the film of hers we have reviewed, and it is not a generous one. After it the work went largely to direct-to-video thrillers, until *That '70s Show* (1998–2004) gave her Midge Pinciotti and a new audience that knew her only from the sofa. Stacey Sutton is the problem in miniature. Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson write her as a geologist and then give her nothing geological to do; she is there to be carried out of a fire-engine chase and a climax on the Golden Gate Bridge, and to shout Bond's name while it happens. Roberts plays what she is given. She is game about the physical business, as the fantasy films had already shown, and she has the stillness this series likes in its women, but the script leaves her nothing to think and she does not supply it. We watched the bridge sequence wanting to feel something for her and felt mainly embarrassment, because a woman with a doctorate has been reduced to a voice calling a man's name, and Roberts never lets us see that Stacey might mind. That is the criticism that followed her: presence without interior, and typecasting to match. It is fair as far as it goes. It also asks a performer to mend a part the writers broke. The sitcom is the exception and it is telling. Midge Pinciotti is a suburban wife whose blankness is the joke, and the same stare that stranded her in San Francisco lands lines. Comedy could use what action cinema could only point a camera at. She knew the shape of it herself. Cast in the Bond film, she said, "I sort of felt like every girl who’d ever been a Bond Girl had seen their career go nowhere, so I was a little cautious." She was right to be. Watch *A View to a Kill* for Walken and Grace Jones, and notice how little of it is hers. ## Biography Tanya Roberts was an American actress. Born Victoria Leigh Blum in New York City on 15 October 1949, she studied at the Actors Studio before beginning her career in modelling and small roles. She played Julie Rogers in the final season of the television series *Charlie's Angels* (1980–1981) and Stacey Sutton in the James Bond film *A View to a Kill* (1985). Other credits include Kiri in *The Beastmaster* (1982), the title role in *Sheena* (1984) and Midge Pinciotti in *That '70s Show* (1998–2004). She died in Los Angeles on 4 January 2021. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *A View to a Kill* (1985), Fi1m 46, as Stacey Sutton — [page](https://film.one/film/a-view-to-a-kill.md) ## Complete filmography (35) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Carnage Collection: Vicious Violence & Vengeance* (2023), as Becky (archive footage) (uncredited) - *Famous T&A 2* (2022), as Becky (archive footage) - *Barbershop* (2005), series, as Ellie Palmer - *Eve* (2003), series, as Rebecca - *The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond* (2000), Acting - *That '70s Show* (1998), series, as Midge Pinciotti - *Hot Line* (1995), series, as Rebecca - *Deep Down* (1994), as Charlotte - *Burke's Law* (1994), series, as Julie Reardon - *Sins of Desire* (1993), as Kay Egan, Associate Producer - *Almost Pregnant* (1992), as Linda Alderson - *Inner Sanctum* (1991), as Lynn Foster - *Legal Tender* (1991), as Rikki Rennick - *Night Eyes* (1990), as Nikki - *Twisted Justice* (1990), as Secretary - *Purgatory* (1988), as Carly Arnold - *Body Slam* (1986), as Candace Vandervagen - *A View to a Kill* (1985), as Stacey Sutton — Fi1m 46, [page](https://film.one/film/a-view-to-a-kill.md) - *Sheena* (1984), as Sheena - *Hearts and Armour* (1983), as Isabella - *Murder Me, Murder You* (1983), as Velda - *The Beastmaster* (1982), as Kiri - *Waikiki* (1980), as Carol - *Racquet* (1979), as Bambi - *California Dreaming* (1979), as Stephanie - *Tourist Trap* (1979), as Becky - *Pleasure Cove* (1979), as Sally - *Greatest Heroes of the Bible* (1978), series, as Bachemath - *Zuma Beach* (1978), as Denise - *Fingers* (1978), as Julie - *The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover* (1977), as Stewardess - *The Love Boat* (1977), series, as Diane Dayton - *Charlie's Angels* (1976), series, as Julie Rogers - *The Yum Yum Girls* (1976), as April - *Forced Entry* (1975), as Nancy Ulman ## Gallery - ![Tanya Roberts](https://film.one/media/person/1028470/gallery-6ffbe566ae5d.jpg) Tanya Roberts — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Tanya_Roberts_1982_%28headshot%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Portrait of actress Tanya Roberts, 1980.](https://film.one/media/person/1028470/gallery-776273e475d0.jpg) Portrait of actress Tanya Roberts, 1980. — Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Tanya_Roberts_-_Studio_portrait_%281980%29.jpg/1280px-Tanya_Roberts_-_Studio_portrait_%281980%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Tanya Roberts](https://film.one/media/person/1028470/gallery-deb93317fb15.jpg) Tanya Roberts — Image via TMDB - ![Tanya Roberts](https://film.one/media/person/1028470/gallery-731f8b2cf9db.jpg) Tanya Roberts — Image via TMDB - ![Tanya Roberts](https://film.one/media/person/1028470/gallery-4986aca01156.jpg) Tanya Roberts — Image via TMDB - ![Tanya Roberts](https://film.one/media/person/1028470/gallery-6f0378ff6ed5.jpg) Tanya Roberts — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 0 won, 2 nominated - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress 1986: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress (nominated), for *A View to a Kill* - Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress 1985: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress (nominated), for *Sheena* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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