Mary Tyler Moore
TV Actress
Actress best known for starring on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and for playing Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show. She also appeared in Thoroughly Modern Millie in 1967.
She gained her first acting role as a dancing elf named Happy Hotpoint.
She played a lead role in the 1980 film Ordinary People.
She married her first husband, Richard Carleton Meeker, in 1955 and together they had a son in 1956.
Ed Asner was her co-star on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.