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Actress Tanya Roberts Dies At 65, After Premature Announcements

Actress Tanya Roberts died Monday after representatives mistakenly announced she'd died earlier, then retracted their statements.
Actor Tanya Roberts at the 2006 TV Land awards in Santa Monica, Calif. She died Monday evening.

Actor Tanya Roberts died Monday evening in Los Angeles following a collapse on Christmas Eve.

Roberts was best known for her roles as one of TV's in the 1970s, as a so-called "Bond Girl" in the James Bond film (1985) and as the mother of one of the,beginningin 1998. She had largely fallen out of the public eye in recent years. She was reported dead on Sunday, reported alive on Monday, then reported dead again as of Monday evening.

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