biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Actress, born in New York City, USA. Trained as a dancer, she became the Happy Hotpoint Pixie in a series of television commercials in 1955. Small acting roles followed, and she made her film debut in 1961. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–6) highlighted her talent for domestic comedy, and won her Emmies in 1964 and 1965. Her small-screen popularity was used to launch a multi-media career on Broadway with Breakfast at Tiffanys (1966) and in the cinema, but she returned to television with The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–7), winning Emmies in 1973, 1974, and 1976. She subsequently won an Emmy for First, You Cry (1978), a Tony for Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1980), and an Oscar nomination for Ordinary People (1980). MTM Enterprises, formed with her second husband Grant Tinker in 1970, has been responsible for such television series as Hill Street Blues. |
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