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    Mary Tyler Moore - Wikipedia

    BornDecember 29, 1936 · New York City, U.S.
    DiedJanuary 25, 2017 (aged 80) · Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
    EducationImmaculate Heart High School
    Height5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
    Movies
    Mary Tyler Moore Dies at 80 | Remembering 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' Star | ABC News
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    Mary Tyler Moore Dies at 80 | Remembering 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' Star | ABC News
    YouTubeABC News260.6K viewsJan 25, 2017
    Early life

    Moore was born in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, in 1936 to Marjorie (née Hackett) and George Tyler Moore. Her father was a clerk. Her Irish-Catholic family lived in a rental apartment i… See more

    Career

    Moore's television career began in 1955 with a job as "Happy Hotpoint", a tiny elf dancing on Hotpoint home appliances in TV commercials that ran during breaks on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. After appearing i… See more

    Personal life

    At age 18 in 1955, Moore married her next-door neighbor, 28-year-old cranberry juice salesman Richard Meeker, and within six weeks she was pregnant with her only child, Richard Carleton Meeker Jr., born on July 3, 195… See more

    Health issues and death

    Moore was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1969. In 2011, she had surgery to remove a meningioma, a benign brain tumor. In 2014, friends reported that Moore had heart and kidney problems and was nearly blind from complicatio… See more

    Philanthropy

    In addition to her acting work, Moore was the International Chairperson of JDRF (the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation). In this role, she used her celebrity status to help raise funds and awareness of diabetes mellitus… See more

    Politics

    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. She endorsed President Jimmy Carter for re-election in a 1980 campaign television … See more

    Acting credits and accolades

    In February 1981, Moore was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the drama film Ordinary People but lost to Sissy Spacek for her role in Coal Miner's Daughter. In 1981, she won the Golden Glo… See more

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