Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show , in which she starred as Mary Richards, a thirtysomething single woman who worked as a local news producer in Minneapolis, and, earlier, The Dick Van Dyke Show , in which she played Laura Petrie, a former dancer turned Westchester homemaker, wife and mother. Her notable film work includes 1967s Thoroughly Modern Millie and 1980s Ordinary People, in which she played a role that was very different from the television characters she had portrayed, and for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Moore was born in the Brooklyn Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, to Marjorie and George Tyler Moore , a clerk. The oldest of three siblings, Moore and her family lived in Flushing, Queens. Her maternal grandparents were immigrants from England, and her paternal greatgrandfather, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Tilghman Moore, owned the house which is now Stonewall Jacksons Headquarters Museum. When she was eight years old, Moore moved with her family to Los Angeles. She was raised Catholic, and attended Saint Rose of Lima, a Catholic school in Brooklyn, Saint Ambrose School in Los Angeles, and Immaculate Heart High School located in Los Feliz, California.

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