Mary Tyler Moore Has Died
Mary Tyler Moore, the Emmy-winning sitcom star and Oscar-nominated actress known for her role in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the 1980 movie Ordinary People, died on Wednesday in Connecticut. Moore's publicist confirmed the death to the Associated Press. She was 80. The cause of death was not immediately revealed.
Moore was born in 1936 in Brooklyn; she moved to Los Angeles at age eight. She started picking up minor television roles and landed a big break when she was cast in The Dick Van Dyke show as the wife of Van Dyke's Rob Petrie in 1961. In 1970, Moore starred in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which ran until 1977. The show was a hit, pulling in 29 Emmy awards total during the course of its existence.



