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<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Mary Tyler Moore, the star of TV&#8217;s beloved &#8220;The Mary Tyler Moore Show&#8221; whose comic realism helped revolutionize the depiction of women on the small screen, died Wednesday. She was 80.</p><p>Moore gained fame in the 1960s as the frazzled wife Laura Petrie on &#8220;The Dick Van Dyke Show.&#8221; In the 1970s, she created one of TV&#8217;s first career-woman sitcom heroines in &#8220;The Mary Tyler Moore Show.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;She was an impressive person and a talented person and a beautiful person. A force of nature,&#8221; producer, creator and director Carl Reiner, who created the &#8220;The Dick Van Dyke Show,&#8221; told The Associated Press. &#8220;She&#8217;ll last forever, as long as there&#8217;s television. Year after year, we&#8217;ll see her face in front of us.&#8221;</p><p>Moore won seven Emmy awards over the years and was nominated for an Oscar for her 1980 portrayal of an affluent mother whose son is accidentally killed in &#8220;Ordinary People.&#8221;</p><p>Tributes came pouring in. &#8220;Mary&#8217;s energy, spirit and talent created a new bright spot in the television landscape and she will be very much missed,&#8221; Robert Redford, director of &#8220;Ordinary People,&#8221; said in a statement.</p><p>Van Dyke took to Twitter to express his grief and included a video link to a song-and-dance number featuring himself and his TV wife from their show.</p><p>&#8220;There are no words. She was THE BEST! We always said that we changed each other&#8217;s lives for the better,&#8221; he said.</p><p>Ellen DeGeneres echoed the sentiment of others on Twitter: &#8220;Mary Tyler Moore changed the world for all women.&#8221;</p><p>Moore&#8217;s first major TV role was on the classic sitcom &#8220;The Dick Van Dyke Show,&#8221; in which she played the young homemaker wife of Van Dyke&#8217;s character, comedy writer Rob Petrie, from 1961-66.</p><p>With her unerring gift for comedy, Moore seemed perfectly fashioned to the smarter wit of the new, post-Eisenhower age. As Laura, she traded in the housedress of countless sitcom wives for Capri pants that were as fashionable as they were suited to a modern American woman.</p><p>Laura was a dream wife and mother, but not perfect. Viewers identified with her flustered moments and her protracted, plaintive cry to her husband: &#8220;Ohhhh, Robbbb!&#8221;</p><p>Moore&#8217;s chemistry with Van Dyke was unmistakable. Decades later, he spoke warmly of the chaste but palpable off-screen crush they shared during the show&#8217;s run.</p><p>They also appeared together in several TV specials over the years and in 2003, co-starred in a PBS production of the play &#8220;The Gin Game.&#8221;</p><p>But it was as Mary Richards, the plucky Minneapolis TV news producer on &#8220;The Mary Tyler Moore Show&#8221; (1970-77), that Moore truly made her mark.</p><p>At a time when women&#8217;s liberation was catching on worldwide, her character brought to TV audiences an independent, 1970s career woman. Other than Marlo Thomas&#8217; 1960s sitcom character &#8220;That Girl,&#8221; who at least had a steady boyfriend, there were few precedents.</p><p>Thomas on Wednesday called Moore a gifted actress and a wonderful comedian. &#8220;I&#8217;m proud that we were in that groundbreaking sorority that brought single independent women to television,&#8221; Thomas said in a statement.</p><p>Mary Richards was comfortable being single in her 30s, and while she dated, she wasn&#8217;t desperate to get married. She sparred affectionately with her gruff boss, Lou Grant, played by Ed Asner, and addressed him always as &#8220;Mr. Grant.&#8221; And millions agreed with the show&#8217;s theme song that she could &#8220;turn the world on with her smile.&#8221;</p><p>Asner paid tribute to his co-star, saying on Twitter: &#8220;A great lady I loved and owe so much has left us. I will miss her. I will never be able to repay her for the blessings that she gave me.&#8221;</p><p>The show was filled with laughs. But no episode was more memorable than the bittersweet finale when new management fired the entire WJM News staff &#8212; everyone but the preening, clueless anchorman, Ted Baxter. Thus did the series dare to question whether Mary Richards actually did &#8220;make it after all.&#8221;</p><p>The series ran seven seasons and won 29 Emmys, a record that stood for a quarter century until &#8220;Frasier&#8221; broke it in 2002.</p><p>&#8220;Everything I did was by the seat of the pants. I reacted to every written situation the way I would have in real life,&#8221; Moore told The Associated Press in 1995. &#8220;My life is inextricably intertwined with Mary Richards&#8217;, and probably always will be.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;The Mary Tyler Moore Show&#8221; spawned the spin-offs &#8220;Rhoda,&#8221; (1974-78), starring Valerie Harper; &#8220;Phyllis&#8221; (1975-77), starring Cloris Leachman; and &#8220;Lou Grant&#8221; (1977-82), starring Asner in a rare drama spun off from a comedy.</p><p>&#8220;Mary Tyler Moore&#8221; was the first in a series of acclaimed, award-winning shows she produced with her second husband, Grant Tinker, who died in November 2016, through their MTM Enterprises. (The meowing kitten at the end of the shows was a parody of the MGM lion.) &#8220;The Bob Newhart Show,&#8221; &#8221;Hill Street Blues,&#8221; &#8221;St. Elsewhere&#8221; and &#8220;WKRP in Cincinnati&#8221; are among the MTM series that followed.</p><p>Moore won her seventh Emmy in 1993, for supporting actress in a miniseries or special, for a Lifetime network movie, &#8220;Stolen Babies.&#8221; She had won two for &#8220;The Dick Van Dyke Show&#8221; and the other four for &#8220;Mary Tyler Moore.&#8221; In 2012, Moore received the Screen Actors Guild&#8217;s lifetime achievement award.</p><p>On the big screen, Moore&#8217;s appearances were less frequent. She was a 1920s flapper in the hit 1967 musical &#8220;Thoroughly Modern Millie&#8221; and a nun who falls for Elvis Presley in &#8220;Change of Habit&#8221; in 1969.</p><p>She turned to serious drama in 1980&#8217;s &#8220;Ordinary People,&#8221; playing an affluent, bitter mother who loses a son in an accident. The film won the Oscar for best picture and best director for Robert Redford, and it earned Moore an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe.</p><p>&#8220;She was a truly amazing person, a great friend, and an inspiration to all,&#8221; Timothy Hutton, her &#8220;Ordinary People&#8221; co-star, said in a statement. &#8220;I will always be grateful for her kindness and thankful beyond words for knowing her. She will be missed greatly.&#8221;</p><p>In real life, Moore also endured personal tragedy. The same year &#8220;Ordinary People&#8221; came out, her only child, Richard, who&#8217;d had trouble in school and with drugs, accidentally shot himself at 24. Her younger sister, Elizabeth, died at 21 from a combination of a painkillers and alcohol.</p><p>In her 1995 autobiography &#8220;After All,&#8221; Moore admitted she helped her terminally ill brother try to commit suicide by feeding him ice cream laced with a deadly overdose of drugs. The attempt failed, and her 47-year-old brother, John, died three months later in 1992 of kidney cancer.</p><p>Moore herself lived with juvenile diabetes for some 40 years and told of her struggle in her 2009 book, &#8220;Growing Up Again.&#8221; She also spent five weeks at the Betty Ford Clinic in 1984 for alcohol abuse.</p><p>She served as chairwoman of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, supported embryonic stem cell research and was active in animal rights causes.</p><p>In 1983, Moore married cardiologist Robert Levine, who survives her. Her marriage to Tinker lasted from 1962 to 1981. Before that, she was married to Dick Meeker from 1955 to 1961.</p><p>Moore was born in 1936 in Brooklyn; the family moved to California when she was around 8 years old. She began dance lessons as a child and launched her career while still in her teens, appearing in TV commercials.</p><p>In 1992, Moore received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A decade later, a life-size bronze statue went on display in Minneapolis, depicting her tossing her trademark tam into the air as she did in the opening credits of &#8220;The Mary Tyler Moore Show.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Frazier Moore</p><p>AP Television Writer</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><videoMeta><p><table style="border:none;width:98%;" class="mceItemTable"><tbody><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">VideoID:</td><td id="videoid" style="width:50em;font-size:90%;"> 31897426</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">VideoType:</td><td id="videotype" style="font-size:90%;"> NDN</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">URL:</td><td id="url" style="font-size:90%;"> </td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Embed String:</td><td id="videoembedstring" style="font-size:90%;"> </td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Caption:</td><td id="videocaption" style="font-size:90%;"> TV icon Mary Tyler Moore died Wednesday at age 80.</p><p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Credit:</td><td id="videocredit" style="font-size:90%;"> Inform News</p><p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Position:</td><td id="videoposition" style="font-size:90%;"> </td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="margin-top:10px;font-size:70%;color:#555;">(use the &#8220;for files&#8230;&#8221; link above to associate attached files with this source)</p></videoMeta></div>

Mary Tyler Moore, who changed depiction of women, dies at 80