Mary tyler Moore Biography
Born: December 29, 1936
Born in Brooklyn, NY, on December 29, 1936, actress/dancer/rubberfaced comedienne Mary Tyler Moore went on to star in the definitive television comedies of both the 1960s and the 1970s: The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966) and The_Mary_Tyler_Moore_Show (1970-1977). For her performances as Laura Petrie and Mary Richards, Moore won five Emmy Awards, in 1965, 1966, 1973, 1974, and 1976.
Moore got her start in television commercials, acting as Happy Hotpoint, the Hotpoint Appliance Elf during The Ozzie and Harriet Show in 1955. She then progressed to a stint as the disembodied voice and legs of Sam, the answering service lady, on Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957-1960). Three unsuccessful shows and a series of TV specials followed her more notable series: Mary (1978), the Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979), and Mary (1985-1986). Her dramatic career took off in 1981, when she was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of the repressed mother in Ordinary_People. Moore had Broadway success with +Whose Life Is It Anyway?, appeared in the highly acclaimed Finnegan,_Begin_Again with Robert_Preston on HBO, and won a CableACE Award in 1993 for her performance as an evil orphanage director in Stolen_Babies. In 1996, Moore gained the appreciation of a new generation of fans with her hilarious turn as Ben_Stiller's neurotic mother in David_O._Russell's Flirting_With_Disaster. She also experienced a sort of renaissance through her mention in other films, notably Douglas_Keeve's 1995 frockumentary Unzipped, which featured a beatific Isaac_Mizrahi extolling the virtues of The_Mary_Tyler_Moore_Show and singing its theme song. In addition to her television and film work, Moore, as a well-known diabetic, has been a longtime representative of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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