american actress Mary Tyler Moore passed away today in a hospital in the state of Connecticut at 80 years of age after deteriorate your health after having suffered from diabetes over the years, informed their representative.
The iconic performer, who starred for years on the popular television program that bore his name, had need of respiration in the week prior to his death, according to local media.
“Mary Tyler Moore died surrounded by his friends and her husband for 33 years, Robert Levine”, explained in a press release his publicist, Mara Buxbaum.
“An actress innovative, producer and a passionate advocate of the Research Foundation Juvenile Diabetes, Mary will be remembered as a visionary brave that lit the world with his smile,” added Buxbaum.
Before starring in “The Show Mary Tyler Moore” (1970-1977), a role for which he was awarded three Emmys, the interpreter noted for his role in the program “The Show Dick Van Dyke”, for which he received two other awards in 1964 and in 1966.
Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke in a tribute to the actress. AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / FREDERICK M. BROWN
The Time magazine described his program as one of the 17 who “changed television”.
At the time, went on the air the plot was radical: a woman maiden, independent and following his dream of being a reporter television.
The program inspired other shows based in the quirky and eccentric cast original.
As a high executive of MTM Enterprises, Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker created and produced the “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and the derivatives, and were also responsible for other hits of the television as “Hill Street Blues”, “St. Elsewhere,” and “Remington Steele”.
The queen of the television Oprah Winfrey has been said that Moore was one of his inspirations in the craft. Said girl watched the program every week, and I wanted to be “Mary Tyler Moore” and “wanted to live where Mary lived”.
His first major success was in 1961, when he played the embattled wife and homemaker Laura Petrie in “The Show of the Dick Van Dyke”.
In that popular program, the famous couple slept in separate single beds, and Moore was limited to wear capri pants in just one scene per episode.
Van Dyke said that working with the “beautiful, brilliant, and talented” Moore was “no-brainer no-effort”.
The talk in 2012 on the award of the screen actors guild (SAG), where Moore received a tribute to his career, Van Dyke noted that at the beginning he had doubt on this actress of 20 and so years and wondered: “Can he do comedy?”.
it Turned out, he said, could do “everything”. the Danced, sung, made antics, in addition to having a chemical as perfect behind the screen that many viewers wondered if the couple was married in real life.
Mary Tyler Moore in the seventh installment of the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, in 2008 (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
On the big screen, Moore co-starred with Elvis Presley “Change of Habit” (“This is my way” and “Change of habit”, 1969) and with Julie Andrews, “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (“Millie, a girl modern”, 1967).
Was nominated for Oscar for his role in the drama directed by Robert Redford, “Ordinary People” (“People as one” and “ordinary People”, 1980).
he Also won a Tony for her work in the Broadway musical “Whose Life Is It Anyway”.
Behind the scenes, Moore faced various personal problems, including the addiction to alcohol.
Your only child, Richie, fruit of his first marriage to Richard Meeker, suffered emotional problems and drug addiction. the Were killed in a shooting in 1980, at the age of 24, a fact that was officially labeled “accident”.
Moore, who was born in Brooklyn but moved to California as a young girl, married with Levine, her third husband, in 1983. It was an advocate of the rights of animals and activist for the diabetes, that she was diagnosed with at 33 years of age.
The disease “took control, is not well,”, said Van Dyke in the program “Larry King Now” in October 2015.
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