Died actress Mary Tyler Moore News Journal

The american actress Mary Tyler Moore, who starred in the famous television series, has died today at the age of 80, surrounded by her husband and friends, according to his spokesperson Mara Buxbaum.

Mary Tyler Moore has suffered from diabetes and had been operated on to the brain in 2011. According to the website TMZ and the Los Angeles Times, the actress had “a series of health problems” and died in hospital.

The actress has distinguished itself in particular in the 1970s, as the protagonist of the comedy the Mary Taylor Moore Show, she played the role of Mary Richards, a journalist in Minneapolis, unmarried, liberal, which challenged the principles conservatives.

over seven seasons, the tv series was awarded three Golden Globes and more than 30 Emmys, including best comedy, and the actress seven nominations and three wins, the prizes north american television.

The Dick Van Dyke Show in the 1960s, and given the Mary Taylor Moore two more Emmys and two Golden Globes as best actress comedy.

In the film stand out in particular their respective interests in the music of George Roy Hill, “Millie, Girl, Modern,” in which he played straight man to Julie Andrews, and the dramatic role in “ordinary People”, as a mother who lost a son, performance out of your registry of the comedy, which earned him the Golden Globe award and a nomination for the academy Award for best actress. “Ordinary people” received the Oscar of the best film in 1981, and gave the Oscar for best director to Robert Redford.

On Broadway, it stands out the award for best actress in a new dramatic role, in the play “whose life is anyway?”, Brian Clark.

With the Mary Taylor Moore Enterprises has produced, among over two dozen titles, series such as The Ballad of Hill Street, Dr. Quinn (with CBS), The Trials of Rosie O’neill and Lou Grant, a comedy that took the foreground, the editor-in-chief of the Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977).

Moore, who was born in Brooklyn and moved to California as a child, was an activist of animal rights and diabetes, the disease that was diagnosed at the age of 30.