Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York on December 29, 1936. She was a seven-time Emmy Award-winning actress, Tony Award recipient, Academy Award nominee, and a longtime activist and fund-raiser for diabetes research. She was best known for the television shows The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966) and The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977). She received a Golden Globe award for her role as Beth Jarrett in the movie Ordinary People and Tony Award for her performance on Broadway as a quadriplegic who wanted to die in Whose Life Is It, Anyway? She received a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2012. She wrote several books including After All and Growing up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes. She died of cardiopulmonary arrest on January 25, 2017 at the age of 80.