Gigigonthat Reports…..Mary Tyler Moore, the Emmy-winning sitcom star and Oscar-nominated actress known for her role in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the 1980 movie Ordinary People, died on Wednesday in Connecticut. Moore’s publicist confirmed the death to the Associated Press. She was 80. The cause of death was not immediately revealed.

Moore was born in 1936 in Brooklyn; she moved to Los Angeles at age eight. She started picking up minor television roles and landed a big break when she was cast in The Dick Van Dyke show as the wife of Van Dyke’s Rob Petrie in 1961. In 1970, Moore starred in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which ran until 1977. The show was a hit, pulling in 29 Emmy awards total during the course of its existence, and it earned praise as one of the first to star a self-reliant woman.

Moore cultivated a parallel career on the big screen, appearing in films like Thoroughly Modern Millie and Change of Habit, where she acted opposite Elvis Presley. She’s best known for Ordinary People, where she played a mother whose son dies. The movie received six Oscar nominations, and Moore was nominated for Best Actress.

Moore’s most recent film appearance was in Against the Current in 2009. She also appeared as a guest on the show Hot in Cleveland in 2011 and 2013, reuniting with her old Mary Tyler Moore Show cast member Betty White.

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