{"id":24650,"date":"2017-01-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/actress-feminist-icon-mary-tyler-moore-passes-away-at-80\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T00:00:00","slug":"actress-feminist-icon-mary-tyler-moore-passes-away-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/actress-feminist-icon-mary-tyler-moore-passes-away-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Actress and Feminist Icon Mary Tyler Moore Passes Away at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, the brilliant and elegant actress Mary Tyler Moore passed away at the age of 80. The Hollywood icon is widely recognized for ushering in a new perception of&#xA0;American womanhood with her groundbreaking television roles on&#xA0;<em>The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em>&#xA0;and <em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em>. According to her family, Moore died at the&#xA0;Greenwich Hospital in Connecticut from cardiopulmonary arrest stemming from pneumonia. &#xA0; &#xA0;<\/p>\n<p>Born in Brooklyn, Mary Tyler Moore was best known&#xA0;for her infectious smile and gender barrier shattering television roles the 1960s and 70s. After making a name for herself as Laura Petrie on&#xA0;<em>The Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em>, the actress became an early feminist icon by playing a single and independent working woman named Mary Richards on&#xA0;<em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The half-hour newsroom sitcom helped eliminate the time period&#x2019;s stigmatization of women in the workforce, as Moore presented herself as&#xA0;a hard-working character that oftentimes surpassed her male counterparts in humor and intellect. During the seven years that the show was on the air,&#xA0;<em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em>&#xA0;took home a whopping 29 Emmy Awards, while Moore herself earned four of her seven from her lead&#xA0;role.&#xA0;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v-5-qRo4ObQ\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After her fruitful stint on television, Moore took on more serious projects, including her Oscar-nominated role in the 1980 film <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mKkcyK1VpGY\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ordinary People<\/a><\/em>. In the Robert Redford directed movie, Moore showcased her serious acting side by playing a resentful mother named Beth Jarrett, a part that ended up earned her a Golden Globe.<\/p>\n<p>The esteemed actress also had her fair share of personal bouts throughout her lengthy career, including alocholism and a public battle with Type 1 diabetes. Despite her struggles, Moore continued&#xA0;to play minor roles in movies and television sitcoms, including <em>That &#x2018;70s Show<\/em> and <em>Hot in Cleveland<\/em>, while also being the inspiration behind successful shows like <em>30 Rock<\/em>. Outside of her acting career, Mary Tyler Moore was also an outspoken animal rights activist and chairwoman of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdrf.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Today, beloved icon, Mary Tyler Moore, passed away at the age of 80 in the company of friends and her loving husband of over 33 years, Dr. S. Robert Levine. A groundbreaking actress, producer, and passionate advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mary will be remembered as a fearless visionary who turned the world on with her smile,&#x201D;&#xA0;stated Mara Buxbaum, her longtime representative.&#xA0;<\/p>\n<p>The passing of iconic actress and feminist comes just days after millions of people participated in&#xA0;<a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/womens-march-statistics-around-the-world-trump-responds\">women&#x2019;s marches throughout the world<\/a>. While the fight for equality rages on, we can fondly remember Mary Tyler Moore as a pioneer of the feminist movement. Using her humor and charm, the beloved actress fought to give&#xA0;women an equal place on the big screen and in the workplace.&#xA0;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best known for her starring role on \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show,\u201d the groundbreaking actress and activist passed away on Wednesday from cardiopulmonary arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3036],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beloved Actress and Feminist Icon Mary Tyler Moore Passes Away at 80 - Merry Jane<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/actress-feminist-icon-mary-tyler-moore-passes-away-at-80\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Beloved Actress and Feminist Icon Mary Tyler Moore Passes Away at 80 - 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