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Tanya Roberts
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15 October 1949 - 4 January 2021
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Tanya Roberts (real name - Tanya Boom) was born on October 15, 1954 in New York, in the Bronx (New York, USA). At the age of fifteen, Tanya dropped out of school, got married and hitchhiked around the country until her mother-in-law annulled the marriage. Roberts moved to New York, where she played in theater and studied acting under Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen, and earned a living teaching choreography and, later, shooting in advertising. In 1977, Tanya, along with her second husband, Barry Roberts,
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Tanya Roberts (real name - Tanya Boom) was born on October 15, 1954 in New York, in the Bronx (New York, USA). At the age of fifteen, Tanya dropped out of school, got married and hitchhiked around the country until her mother-in-law annulled the marriage. Roberts moved to New York, where she played in theater and studied acting under Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen, and earned a living teaching choreography and, later, shooting in advertising. In 1977, Tanya, along with her second husband, Barry Roberts, a psychology student who worked as a screenwriter, moved to Hollywood. Tanya Roberts made her film debut in 1975 (Forced Entry), then for a long time she successfully starred in various television series. She became famous for her roles in the films “Lord of the Beasts” (1982) and “The Tyre – Queen of the Jungle” (1984). As an actress, she also appeared in the 1996 video game The Pandora Directive.