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Mary Tyyler Moore (born on December 29, 1936) is an American actress and comedian, perhaps best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30ish single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis.

The oldest of three siblings, Moore was born in Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York to George Tyler Moore and Marjorie Hackett. She moved to California when she was eight years old. She attended Saint Rose of Lima Roman Catholic school in Brooklyn, and Notre Dame convent school in Hollywood. At the age of 17, she started off with a role as "Happy Hotpoint" on television commercials broadcast during Ozzie and Harriet
. During these commercials she would dance around on the Hotpoint appliances (a General Electric subsidiary). She also played Rob's (Dick Van Dyke) lovely wife Laura in the Dick Van Dyke show. After that, she appeared in several bit parts in movies and on TV shows including Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, Steve Canyon, and Hawaiian Eye. She auditioned for the role of the older daughter of Danny Thomas for his long-running hit TV show, but was turned down. Much later, Thomas explained that "no daughter of mine could have that (little) nose."

In 1955 she married Dick Meeker, whom she described as "the boy next door," and was pregnant with her only son Richie within six weeks. Meeker and Moore divorced in 1961, and Richie accidentally shot and killed himself when the hair trigger on his gun went off - the gun was later removed from the market for same reason. International headlines announced that Meeker killed himself when playing a game of Russian Roulette in front of two female friends. Authorities later ruled the episode an accident. A few years earlier, Moore's sister had committed suicide. Her last remaining sibling died of cancer (Moore claimed that she had helped him end his life with an overdose of painkillers), and her mother, who suffered from alcoholism is also deceased, leaving only her father, George Moore, who lives in California.

Television

Moore's first regular television role was on the show Richard Diamond, Private Detective; however, in that show, only her legs were ever shown. Her first important television role in which gained wide recognition was as Laura Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show. When she won an Emmy award for her portrayal of Laura, she said, through her tears, quite incorrectly, "I know this will never happen again!"

Moore married Grant Tinker in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises, which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. MTM Enterprises would later produce popular American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda
, The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, and Hill Street Blues. Moore and Tinker divorced in 1981, and she married Dr. Robert Levine in 1983.

Moore has admitted having a drinking problem from the time she starred in the Dick Van Dyke show until after marrying Levine. Her alcoholism peaked in the 1980s, and Moore eventually entered the Betty Ford Clinic for treatment in 1984. She has been sober since then. Her onetime co-star, Dick Van Dyke, also battled alcoholism for many years.

In August 2005, it was announced that Moore would guest-star as a local newswoman on three episodes of the Fox sitcom That '70s Show. Moore's scenes were shot on the same soundstage where The Mary Tyler Moore Show was filmed in the 1970s. Two of the episodes have premiered recently, and the third aired on February 9th, 2006.

TV Work

Richard Diamond, Private Detective (cast member in 1959)
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966)
Run a Crooked Mile (1969)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977)
Mary (1978) (canceled after 3 episodes)
First, You Cry (1978)
The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979) (canceled after 3 months)
Heartsounds (1984)
Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
Mary (1985-1986)
Lincoln (1988)
Annie McGuire (1988) (canceled after 3 months)
The Last Best Year (1990)
Thanksgiving Day (TV series) (1990)
Stolen Babies (1993)
New York News (1995) (canceled after 3 months)
Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996)
Payback (1997)
Good as Gold (2000)
Mary and Rhoda (2000) (also executive producer)
Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Gimes (2001) (also executive producer)
Miss Lettie and Me (2002)
The Gin Game (2003)
Blessings (TV series) (2003)
The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited (2004)
That 70's Show (2006)

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