Tanya Roberts
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Tanya Roberts was born on October 15, 1955 in the Bronx, New York City. She is an American actress.
After experience as a model and off-Broadway actress, curvaceous Tanya Roberts began appearing in film roles that relied almost exclusively on his physical attributes.
In 1979's Tourist Trap, for example, the camera took a near-fetishist interest in her long and well-toned legs. Even in her big-budget movie appearances, her acting was not her strong suit, nor was it expected to be, especially in such escapist fare as Beastmaster (1982) and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle (1984). In 1980, Roberts was hired to play streetwise Julie Rogers, the last of a long line of replacement actresses in TV's Charlie's Angels.
After her single Angels season, Roberts went back to movies, primarily horror films and high-class, soft-focus erotica. Tanya Roberts exhibited an engaging flair for self-parody as luscious secretary Velda in the made-for-TV Mike Hammer: Murder Me, Murder You (1983); but when time came to develop the film into a series, Roberts had other commitments, and was replaced by Lindsay Bloom.
Credits by Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography
- "That '70s Show" (62 episodes, 1998-2006)
- "Barbershop" (2 episodes, 2005)
- "Eve" (1 episode, 2005)
- "Fillmore!" (1 episode, 2003)
- "Off Centre" (1 episode, 2002)
- "The Angry Beavers" (1 episode, 1998)
- "High Tide" (1 episode, 1997)
- "The Blues Brothers Animated Series" (1997)
- The Pandora Directive (1996)
- "Hot Line" (13 episodes, 1994-1996)
- "Silk Stalkings" (1 episode, 1995)
- "Burke's Law" (1 episode, 1994)
- Deep Down (1994)
- Sins of Desire (1993)
- Almost Pregnant (1992)
- Inner Sanctum (1991)
- Legal Tender (1991)
- Twisted Justice (1990)
- Night Eyes (1990)
- Purgatory (1988)
- Body Slam (1986)
- A View to a Kill (1985)
- Sheena (1984)
- Paladini - storia d'armi e d'amori, I (1983)
- Murder Me, Murder You (1983)
- The Beastmaster (1982)
- "Fantasy Island" (1 episode, 1982)
- "The Love Boat" (1 episode, 1982)
- "Charlie's Angels" (19 episodes, 1980-1981)
- Waikiki (1980)
- "Vega$" (2 episodes, 1980)
- Racquet (1979)
- California Dreaming (1979)
- "Greatest Heroes of the Bible" (1 episode, 1979)
- Tourist Trap (1979)
- Pleasure Cove (1979)
- Zuma Beach (1978)
- Fingers (1978)
- The Yum-Yum Girls (1976)
- Forced Entry (1975)
