BREAKING: Television Sitcom Star, Mary Tyler Moore Dead At Age 80
By LUCHINA FISHER, ABC NEWS // January 25, 2017
passionate advocate for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
ABOVE VIDEO: Mary Tyler Moore, the Oscar-nominated actress best known for her roles in the television sitcoms “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” has died. She was 80.
(ABC NEWS) – Mary Tyler Moore, the Oscar-nominated actress best known for her roles in the television sitcoms “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” has died. She was 80.
“Today, beloved icon, Mary Tyler Moore, passed away at the age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine,” her publicist, Mara Buxbaum, told ABC News.
“A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile.”
Moore’s portrayal of the single career woman Mary Richards in her eponymous 1970s show arrived alongside the Women’s Movement, making her a role model for generations of women, even though Moore didn’t consider herself a feminist. The show, which centered on Richards’ work as a producer in a fictional Minneapolis newsroom and her life as a single woman, earned 29 Emmy Awards, the most for any scripted series until “Frasier” won its 30th Emmy.
Moore herself earned a total of six Emmy Awards, four of them for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” She won her first Emmy for her breakthrough role of Laura Petrie in “The Dick Van Dyke Show, and in 1993, she won her sixth for the television movie “Stolen Babies.”
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