Mary Tyler Moore, TV Pioneer in Portrayal of Women, Dies at 80
- Sitcom star heralded for ‘new paradigm for female leads’
- She was also nominated for an Oscar in ‘Ordinary People’
Mary Tyler Moore
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Mary Tyler Moore, who flung her beret into the Minneapolis sky in the opening scene of her groundbreaking 1970s sitcom about a single woman trying to “make it after all,” has died. She was 80.
She died with her husband, Robert Levine, and friends nearby, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday, citing her publicist. Moore, who lived in New York, had Type 1 diabetes and took insulin three times daily for much of her life.