American actress Mary Tyler Moore passed away at the age of 80 years, said her longtime representative Mara Buxbaum.

"Today, the beloved Mary Tyler Moore died at the age of 80 years in the company of friends and her loving husband, with whom she lived more than 33 years," said Dr. S. Robert Levine". Actress, producer, and a passionate advocate for the research Fund children's diabetes, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who transformed the world with her smile."

Mary Tyler Moore debuted as an actress in 1970. She played a 30-year-old single woman producer of television news. But this is not a role that brought her to fame. She became famous thanks to the TV series `dick van dyke`, where she played the role of the wife of the titular character.

Moore was born in 1936 in Brooklyn, new York, the clerk of George Tyler Moore and his wife, Marjorie. When she was a young girl, the family, which was 2 her little brother and sister, moved to Los Angeles. Moore later reported that her mother was an alcoholic.

In 1955, she married Richard Carleton of the Meker and the following year gave birth to a son, Richard Jr. The couple divorced in 1961, and the following year she married the Executive Director of the CBS Grant Tinker. Moore and Tinker divorced in 1981, a year after her son died after accidentally shot himself while handling a shotgun. In 1983, Moore married Dr. Robert Levine.
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