Tanya Roberts

She starred on That 70s Show from 1998 to 2001. See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. Her early appearances included a starring role on Charlie's Angels, and subsequent media attention led to her being featured on the cover of People, as well as later roles in The Beastmaster and A View to a Kill. Athole Shearer died in 1985 in Los Angeles, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. She also appeared in television commercials for Clairol and Ultra Brite. She spent many years in mental institutions until her illness was properly diagnosed. Born in Bronx, New York, on October 15, 1954, she studied acting with Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen, and supported herself in New York as an Arthur Murray dance instructor. Although she was the most attractive of the two Shearer sisters, her film career was limited to a few bit parts because of her personal difficulties.

Tanya Roberts, born Victoria Leigh Blum, is an American actress. Athole Shearer suffered from bipolar disorder that went unrecognized for years resulting in her suffering numerous problems. They divorced twelve years later in 1940 at a turbulent time for Hawks who had been fired by studio owner Howard Hughes as the director of the film The Outlaw. In 1923, Athole Shearer married John Ward with whom she would have a son. Divorced, in 1928 she married again, this time to noted film director Howard Hawks (1896-1977). As a teenager, her divorced mother moved the two girls to New York City and then to Hollywood and in 1920 she obtained her first minor film roll.

Shearer was born in Montreal, Quebec. Athole Shearer (November 20, 1900 - March 17, 1985) was an actress most noted as the sister of motion picture star Norma Shearer and film sound engineer Douglas Shearer. The Flapper (1920). Way Down East (1920).

The Restless Sex (1920).