LEGENDARY
HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS MARY TYLER MOORE DIES AGED 80
Courtesy of http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38747061
US Emmy award-winning actress Mary Tyler
Moore has died aged 80, her publicist says.
She was best known for her television roles in the 1960s
sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show and the eponymous The Mary Tyler Moore Show in
the 1970s.
She was also nominated for a best actress
Oscar in 1980 for the film Ordinary People.
Mara Buxbaum said in a statement she died in the company
of friends and her husband, Dr S. Robert Levine.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Moore moved to Los Angeles
when she was eight years old and started her career in show business as a
dancer aged 17.
Her first appearance was in a Hotpoint advert in the
1950s, dressed as an elf.
But her parts grew in size during that decade, before she
landed the role of wife Laura Petrie in The Dick Van Dyke Show in 1961.
