Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore was an American actress, producer and social advocate, born in Brooklyn Heights, New York City, in 1936 and raised from the age of eight in Los Angeles. She became widely known for two television roles, as Laura Petrie, the wife of Dick Van Dyke's character in The Dick Van Dyke Show, and then as Mary Richards, an independent working woman at a newsroom, in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a sitcom she and her husband Grant Tinker pitched to CBS in 1970. The latter show is remembered for bringing ideas from the women's movement into mainstream comedy and for spinning off three other series. Moore also earned an Academy Award nomination for Ordinary People, appeared in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and won Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe and Tony awards. Beyond acting she advocated for animal rights and for diabetes research, living with type 1 diabetes from her thirties. She died in 2017 at the age of 80.