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Victoria Leigh Blum Wiki Biography

Victoria Leigh Blum, born on the 15th of October, 1955 and more popularly known under her married surname as Tanya Roberts, is an American model and actress who initially came to prominence through her role in the television series “Charlie’s Angels” in 1980-81.

So how much is Tanya Roberts’ net worth? As of mid-2016, it is reported by authoritative sources to be $10 million, acquired from her years in the showbiz industry, from being a model to an actress.

Tanya Roberts Net Worth $10 million

Born in The Bronx, New York City, Roberts grew up in a family with a modest income. At the age of 15, she quit high school and travelled around the country. She later decided to go back to New York and started building her portfolio in work as a model. She also invested in her acting skills and studied at the Actors Studio under Lee Starsberg and Uta Hagen. Roberts’ career started with her working as a model, and for products icluding Ultra Brite, Clairol, Excedrin and Cool Ray sunglasses. These jobs helped her establish her net worth, and opportunities for acting came.

After multiple modelling gigs in 1975, Roberts finally starred in her first movie “Forced Entry”, which was soon followed by a string of movies like “The Yun-Yum Girls”, “Fingers”, “Racquet”, ‘Tourist Trap” and ‘California Dreaming”. Although she was working non-stop and her wealth was increasing, these roles were relatively small, and she was still unable to make it big in Hollywood.

Roberts’s big break came in 1980, when she was picked out of a handful of those who auditioned for a vacant role in the television show “Charlie’s Angels”. She entered the shows’ fifth season playing the role of Julie Rogers, replacing another angel. Although the show was cancelled after another year, it launched Roberts’ career to new heights and she became a rising star.

More opportunities now came for Roberts. She came back to movies, and starred in “The Beastmaster” in 1982, “Hearts and Armour” in 1983 and a made-for-TV movie “Murder me, Murder You”. She even became a ‘Bond girl’ and appeared in the movie “A View to a Kill” in 1985.

In 1998, after appearing consistently in movies for several years, she became part of the television show “That 70s show”, appearing in over 80 episodes in more than six years. It became her last major project in show business, although she was seen briefly in the TV series’ “Eve” and “Barbershop”, after which she focused on caring for her terminally-ill husband.

In terms of her personal life, Roberts married Barry Roberts in 1974 after a whirlwind romance of just two weeks – the two met in a line at a movie theatre and started dating. Roberts proposed at a subway after only a short time of knowing each other. Barry Roberts passed away in 2006. Tanya has apparently been single since, and now resides in Hollywood Hills.



Full Name Tanya Roberts
Net Worth $10 Million
Date Of Birth October 15, 1955
Place Of Birth The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
Height 1.73 m
Profession Actress
Nationality American
Spouse Barry Roberts 1974–2006
Siblings Barbara Chase
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Tanya.Roberts.Official
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000617/
Movies A View to a Kill, Sheena, The Beastmaster, Almost Pregnant, Sins of Desire, Tourist Trap, Inner Sanctum, Body Slam, Hearts and Armour, California Dreaming, Twisted Justice, The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover, Murder Me, Murder You, Legal Tender, Fingers, Purgatory, Queens of the World, Deep Down, …
TV Shows That ’70s Show, Eve, Barbershop, Fantasy Island, Charlie’s Angels, Hot Line, Greatest Heroes of the Bible
Trademark
1 Lisp, breathless voice
2 Voluptuous figure
3 Sparkling blue eyes
4 Strawberry blonde hair
Title Salary
Charlie’s Angels (1976) $12,000 per episode
Quote
1 I think it’s better to come into the limelight really slowly and do a broader range of roles, but I took these glamorous roles and I think that stereotyped me. They sort of think you’re some dumb, glamorous broad, so it’s difficult, and I think that is the reason most Bond Girls don’t go on to have careers after they have done the movie because people just don’t take them seriously and I guess they shouldn’t because it’s so tongue-in-cheek, you know what I mean?
2 [on being cast as a Bond Girl in A View to a Kill (1985)] 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. I remember I said to my agent, “No one works after they get a Bond movie” and they said to me, “Are you kidding? Glenn Close would do it if she could.” And I thought to myself, “Well, you can have regrets if you wish, but what’s the point?” At the time I didn’t know what I know now, and to be honest, who would turn that role down, really? Nobody would. All you have to think to yourself is, “Could have I been better in the part?” That’s all you can say to yourself because turning the part down would have been ridiculous, you know? I mean nobody would do that, nobody. I was very young and I did what I felt was the right choice to make.
3 I’ve made a lot of good choices and a lot of bad choices and that’s part of life. Whether you’re really successful or moderately successful, I’m sure that to get there you have made some bad decisions and good decisions on some level, but that’s how I see life. You can’t go through life defeated, it’s just trial and error.
4 You need to start somewhere. Jane Fonda began with Barbarella (1968). I’m not at an age where producers will offer me Norma Rae (1979) or Sophie’s Choice (1982). When you’re young and pretty you don’t get On Golden Pond (1981). But if you keep working, good things can happen. Kim Basinger got The Natural (1984) after making a James Bond movie. The same kind of thing could happen to me.
5 Fans make you. I certainly hope that people like me in the work and I appreciate every letter that I get. I’m glad they like me or else I wouldn’t be in the business. But for fans it’s a very different reality than it is for me. They’re going to watch the finished product, which has taken us five months and a lot of hard work . . . I mean, I’ve been choking for the last three days on smoke–it’s not very glamorous. It’s not what it looks like in the movie, I’m on my knees, bruised half the time, it’s action, action, action.
6 [interview in “People” Magazine, 1984] Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I’ll come back. It took me 14 years to get where I am. I’m going to hang in there.
Fact
1 Turned down a role in Vicious Kiss (1995) which eventually went to Margaux Hemingway.
2 Both Priscilla Presley and Sharon Stone were considered, before Tanya landed the leading lady role in the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985).
3 Aunt of Zach Leary.
4 Widow of Barry Roberts.
5 Auditioned for the role of Kate Roberts on the soap opera, Days of Our Lives (1965), in 1995 though the role went to Lauren Koslow.
6 Has the unique distinction of having been both a Bond Girl and the last of the original Charlie’s Angels.
7 Her sister, Barbara Chase, was married to Timothy Leary for 15 years.
8 She took 5 years of voice training to get the Bronx out of her voice.
9 Sister of Barbara Chase

Actress

Title Year Status Character
Barbershop 2005 TV Series Ellie Palmer
Eve 2005 TV Series Rebecca
That ’70s Show 1998-2004 TV Series Midge Pinciotti
Fillmore! 2003 TV Series Author
Off Centre 2002 TV Series Gretchen
The Angry Beavers 1998 TV Series Marsha
High Tide 1997 TV Series Rhonda Fogel
The Blues Brothers Animated Series 1997 TV Series Toni G.
The Pandora Directive 1996 Video Game Regan Madsen
Hot Line 1994-1996 TV Series Rebecca
Silk Stalkings 1995 TV Series Callie Callahan
Deep Down 1994 Charlotte
Burke’s Law 1994 TV Series Julie Reardon
Sins of Desire 1993 Kay Egan
Almost Pregnant 1992 Video Linda Alderson
Legal Tender 1991 Rikki Rennick
Inner Sanctum 1991 Lynn Foster
Night Eyes 1990 Nikki
Twisted Justice 1990 Secretary
Purgatory 1988 Carly Arnold
Body Slam 1986 Candace Vandervagen
A View to a Kill 1985 Stacey Sutton
Sheena 1984 Sheena
Hearts and Armour 1983 Angelica (Isabella)
Murder Me, Murder You 1983 TV Movie Velda
The Beastmaster 1982 Kiri
Fantasy Island 1982 TV Series Miss Amanda Parsons
The Love Boat 1982 TV Series Diane Dayton
Charlie’s Angels 1980-1981 TV Series Julie Rogers
Waikiki 1980 TV Movie Carol
Vega$ 1980 TV Series Officer Britt Blackwell
Racquet 1979 Bambi
California Dreaming 1979 Stephanie
Greatest Heroes of the Bible 1979 TV Series Bachemath
Pleasure Cove 1979 TV Movie Sally
Tourist Trap 1979 Becky
Zuma Beach 1978 TV Movie Denise
Fingers 1978 Julie
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover 1977 Stewardess
The Yum Yum Girls 1976 April
Forced Entry 1975 Nancy Ulman

Producer

Title Year Status Character
Sins of Desire 1993 associate producer

Self

Title Year Status Character
Britain’s Favourite Detectives 2014 TV Movie documentary Herself / Julie Rogers
The Insider 2013 TV Series Herself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 2008 TV Series Herself
TV Land Confidential 2007 TV Series documentary Herself – Interviewee
Film ’85 BBC Report 2006 Video short Herself
E! True Hollywood Story 2002-2006 TV Series documentary Herself
The Saga of ‘The Beastmaster’ 2005 Video documentary Herself
I Can’t Believe I Wore That 2005 TV Series documentary Herself
UnConventional 2004 Documentary Herself
Hollywood Squares 2001-2004 TV Series Herself
Charlie’s Angels: TV Tales 2002 TV Special documentary Herself
Politically Incorrect 2001 TV Series Herself
The Test 2001 TV Series Herself – Panelist
Designing Bond: Peter Lamont 2000 Video documentary short Herself
Inside ‘A View to a Kill’ 2000 Video documentary short Herself
The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond 2000 Video documentary short Herself
Biography 2000 TV Series documentary Herself
Time & Again 2000 TV Series documentary Herself
Famous Homes & Hideaways 2000 TV Series documentary Herself
The List 2000 TV Series Herself
Pajama Party 2000 TV Series Herself
68th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade 1999 TV Special Herself
The Martin Short Show 1999 TV Series Herself
Entertainment Tonight Presents: Charlie’s Angels – Uncovered 1999 TV Movie documentary Herself
Happy Hour 1999 TV Series Herself
Investigating Tarzan 1997 Documentary Herself
Favorite Deadly Sins 1995 TV Movie Herself
The Geraldo Rivera Show 1992 TV Series Herself
Na sowas! 1985 TV Series Herself
Hollywood ’84 1984 TV Mini-Series documentary Herself
Evening Magazine 1983 TV Series Herself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1981-1982 TV Series Herself – Guest / Herself
The Alan Thicke Show 1981-1982 TV Series Herself
Hour Magazine 1981 TV Series Herself
The John Davidson Show 1981 TV Series Herself

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
The James Bond Story 1999 TV Movie documentary Stacy Sutton (uncredited)
Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater 1994 TV Series Linda Alderson

Nominated Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1986 Razzie Award Razzie Awards Worst Actress A View to a Kill (1985)
1985 Razzie Award Razzie Awards Worst Actress Sheena (1984)

3rd Place Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie
1985 Bravo Otto Germany Bravo Otto Best Actress (Schauspielerin)

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