This stunning former model became best known for her screen performances playing a sinister femme fatale.
Actress Tanya Roberts came from modest beginnings in the Bronx, New York, the younger daughter of a Jewish American pen salesman Oscar Blum and an English mother Dorothy Smith , who divorced before she reached high school.
At 14, she sang in the school choir.
Her ancestry includes Italian from her paternal grandfather , German, and English.
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