Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore (December 29, 1936 – January 25, 2017) was an American actress, producer, and social advocate. She is best known for her roles on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), which "helped define a new vision of American womanhood"[1] and "appealed to an audience facing the new trials of modern-day existence".[2][3][4][5] Moore won seven Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.[6][7] She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Ordinary People.[8][9][10] Moore had a supporting role in the musical film Thoroughly Modern Millie. Moore was an advocate for animal rights, vegetarianism[11] and diabetes awareness and research.[12]
This article is about the actress. For the 1970s television series, see The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Mary Tyler Moore
December 29, 1936
January 25, 2017 (aged 80)
Oak Lawn Cemetery, Fairfield, Connecticut
- Actress
- producer
- activist
1955–2013
5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
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Richard Meeker(m. 1955; div. 1962)
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Robert Levine(m. 1983)
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Early life[edit]
Moore was born on December 29, 1936, in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, to Marjorie (née Hackett) and George Tyler Moore. Her father was a clerk.[13][14][15] Her Irish-Catholic family lived in a rental apartment in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood, then the Moores later lived in a rented apartment at 144-16 35th Avenue in Flushing, Queens, New York City.
Moore was the oldest of three children, with a younger brother John and a younger sister Elizabeth. Moore's paternal great-grandfather, Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, owned the house that is now the Stonewall Jackson's Headquarters Museum in Winchester, Virginia.[16]
When Moore was eight years old, the family relocated to Los Angeles, California, at the recommendation of her uncle, an employee of MCA.[17] She was raised Catholic[18] and attended St. Rose of Lima Parochial School in Brooklyn until the third grade. In Los Angeles, Moore attended Saint Ambrose School and Immaculate Heart High School in the Los Feliz neighborhood of the city.[19][20]
Moore's sister Elizabeth died at age 21 "from a combination of ... painkillers and alcohol." Her brother died at the age of 47 from kidney cancer.[21]
Politics[edit]
During the 1960s and 1970s, Moore had a reputation as a liberal or moderate, although she endorsed President Richard Nixon for re-election in 1972.[106] She endorsed President Jimmy Carter for re-election in a 1980 campaign television ad.[107] In 2011, her friend and former co-star Ed Asner said during an interview on The O'Reilly Factor that Moore "has become much more conservative of late". Bill O'Reilly, host of that program, stated that Moore had been a viewer of his show and that her political views had leaned conservative in recent years.[108] In a Parade magazine article from March 22, 2009, Moore identified herself as a libertarian centrist who watched Fox News. She stated: "when one looks at what's happened to television, there are so few shows that interest me. I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly... If McCain had asked me to campaign for him, I would have."[109]
In an interview for the 2013 PBS series Pioneers of Television, Moore said that she was recruited to join the feminist movement of the 1970s by Gloria Steinem, but did not agree with Steinem's views. Moore said she believed that women have an important role in raising children and that she did not believe in Steinem's view that women owe it to themselves to have a career.[110]
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