Celebrity Biographies
Mary tyler moore
The new comedians in the United States, such as Tina Fey or Ellen DeGeneres, have as references two great stars of the past, Carol Burnett, and another notable actress who starred in series such as “The Girl on TV” and was nominated for an Oscar for “People stream”. Mary Tyler Moore died on January 25, 2017 at a Connecticut hospital after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest due to pneumonia derived from her diabetes.
Born in the New York neighborhood of Flatbush, in Brooklyn, on December 29, 1936, Mary Tyler Moore was the eldest of the three children of a Catholic couple, who sent her to the Saint Rose of Lima religious school. The family soon moved to Los Angeles, where she appeared in television commercials at the age of 17, while she began her career as a dancer.
In 1961, she was about to skip the audition that would change her life, because when she was competing with sixty other actresses, she didn’t think she had a chance. In the end, she was chosen to play Laurie Petrie, the wife of the protagonist on The Dick Van Dyke Show , a role that would make her famous in the United States, for which she won a Golden Globe (she would get another two later), and the first of her six Emmys.
He just established himself with The Girl on TV , created by James L. Brooks , whose original title bears his name: The Mary Tyler Moore Show . There was Mary Richards, a single and independent professional destined to make history, who worked as a producer on a television network. Not only did it break audience records, and it lasted for seven seasons, but it also gave rise to three spin-offs, Phyllis , Rhoda , and especially Lou Grant , who would also enjoy enormous international acceptance, thanks to the curmudgeon played by Ed Asner .
Success did not accompany him in the same way in his personal life. In 1955, Mary Tyler Moore married Richard Carleton Meeker, whom she described as “the boy next door”, who would be the father of her only child, Richard Jr. After divorcing in 1961, she was united to the producer Grant Tyker, with whom he founded the television company MTM Enterprises, which would launch the Sad Song of Hill Street series , and later with Robert Levine, who would accompany him until his death. The hardest blow of her life took her on October 14, 1980, when her daughter died after accidentally shooting herself with a revolver. She also had to deal with the overdose deaths of her sister hers Elizabeth and hers brother John as a result of cancer.
In addition to beginning her long career on Broadway, where she achieved great success, the actress appeared in numerous films, such as Changing Habits , where she was a nun with Elvis Presley , and Milie, a modern girl , where she shared credits with Julie Andrews , and she rocked the role of a wealthy orphan, who wanted to see the lives of working-class girls. She highlights her intense work as a mother to her that she receives her son so coldly, after a terrible family tragedy, in Ordinary People , directed by Robert Redford .. She achieved an Oscar nomination for best leading actress, and although the film was imposed as best film, and was also recognized in the categories of actor, director and screenplay, she was snatched the distinction by surprise by Sissy Spacek for I want to be free .
In her later years, she became a special guest on series like Frasier , and continued to shoot productions like the miniseries Lincoln , where she was the wife of the charismatic president of the Union. She said goodbye to her in 2013 with Queens Poker , in an emotional chapter in which she was reunited with Betty White and Georgia Engel , her partners in The Girl on TV .