Tanya Roberts

Name: Tanya Roberts
Birth Name: Victoria Leigh Blum
Height: 5' 8"
Sex: F
Nationality: American
Birth Date: October 15, 1954
Birth Place: The Bronx, New York, USA
Profession: actress, model
Education: studied acting under Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen
Husband/Wife: Barry Roberts (writer; met in a movie line in New York; a few months later, she proposed to him in a subway station; married in 1974)
Father: salesman
Sister: Barbara Leigh (actress; born on November 16, 1946)
Claim to fame: as Bond Girl: Stacy Sutton in A View to a Kill (1985)
   
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TANYA ROBERTS NEWS AND TRIVIA
  • As part of her deal to star in INNER SANCTUM (1991), she choreographed her own sex scenes. One of the scenes she directed with Brett Clark was too graphic even for the unrated version and had to be cut.
  • Got the role in A VIEW TO KILL (1985) after Broccoli saw her in THE BEASTMASTER (1982).
  • Was nominated Razzie Award for Worst Actress in 1986 for A VIEW TO KILL and for SHEENA in 1985 for the same category.
  • Took 5 years of voice training to get the Bronx out of her voice.
  • Tanya's sister, Barbara, was married to Timothy Leary for 15 years.
  • Featured in the 1996 CD-ROM game The Pandora Detective.
  • At 15, Roberts married and hitchhiked around the U.S. until her mother-in-law had the marriage annulled.
  • Studied acting under Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen.

Quotes
  • Asked what her fans would not know about her: "I love to golf! Have been golfing for over two years. The only thing I hate is putting. I hear that Cheryl Ladd also is a avid golfer, I would love to play with her."
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