Valerie Harper

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RECENT CREDITS

Golda's Balcony (FILM) Oct. 10, 2007

True Hollywood Story (TV) May. 8, 2005

Family Law (TV) May. 14, 2001

Freebie and the Bean (FILM) Dec. 25, 1974

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HIGHLIGHTS

Began ballet lessons at age 6 and was dancing in the Radio City Music Hall corps de ballet by age 16.

Appeared in several Broadway musicals, including Michael Kidd's Li'l Abner (1958) and Wildcat (1960); used her earnings to finance acting classes.

Moved with then-husband Richard Schaal from New York to Chicago in the mid 1960s so he could join the famed Second City comedy troupe; she later auditioned and was also accepted, beginning a

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Golda's Balcony 2007 -Golda Meir

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An Invasion of Privacy

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Dancing at the Harvest Moon -Claire

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Death of a Cheerleader -Mrs. Delvecchio

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Don't Go to Sleep

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Drop-Out Mother

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Family Law -Julia Hutchins

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Clemency (2001) -Julia Hutchins

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Farrell for the People

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Hogan Family -Valerie Hogan

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I Want Him Back

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Mary and Rhoda -Rhoda

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Night Terror

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion -Dyan Draper

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Rhoda -Rhoda Morgenstern Gerard

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The Day the Loving Stopped

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The Great Mom Swap

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The People Across the Lake

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The Shadow Box -Maggie

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Freebie and the Bean 1974 -Bean's Wife

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Fun and Games -Carol Heffernan

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Mary and Rhoda -Rhoda Morgenstern Rousseau

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Night Terror

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion -Dyan Draper

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Rock, Rock, Rock!

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Stolen: One Husband -Katherine Slade

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Strange Voices -Lynn Glover

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The Day the Loving Stopped -Norma Danner

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The Execution -Hannah

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The Great Mom Swap -Grace

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The Last Married Couple in America -Barbara

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The People Across the Lake -Rachel Yoman

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The Shadow Box

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Thursday's Game -Ann Menzente

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Thursday's Game

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An Invasion of Privacy -Kate Bianchi

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Blame It on Rio -Karen Hollis

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Chapter Two -Faye Medwick

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Columbo: The Most Crucial Game

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Dancing at the Harvest Moon -Claire

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Death of a Cheerleader -Mrs. Delvecchio

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Don't Go to Sleep -Laura

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Drop-Out Mother -Nora Cromwell

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Farrell for the People -Liz Farrell

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Highlights

Began ballet lessons at age 6 and was dancing in the Radio City Music Hall corps de ballet by age 16.

Appeared in several Broadway musicals, including Michael Kidd's Li'l Abner (1958) and Wildcat (1960); used her earnings to finance acting classes.

Moved with then-husband Richard Schaal from New York to Chicago in the mid 1960s so he could join the famed Second City comedy troupe; she later auditioned and was also accepted, beginning a

Was Linda Lavin's understudy in 1968's Something Different and their stage careers have intertwined ever since: Lavin replaced Harper in Story Theatre, and Harper replaced

Landed the role of Rhoda Morgenstern, the Bronx-born, no-nonsense comic sidekick in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in 1970; earned a spin-off series, Rhoda, four years later.

Had first substantial movie role as Consuelo in 1974's Freebie and the Bean; made TV-movie debut that same year in Thursday's Game.

Cast as the matriarch in Valerie in 1986; title was changed to Valerie's Family and then to The Hogan Family after Harper left the series in 198

Co-wrote and starred in All Under Heaven, a one-woman show about author Pearl S. Buck that debuted in 1998.

Penned a memoir (with writer Catherine Whitney and illustrator Rick Tulka) in 2001 entitled Today I Am a Ma'am: And Other Musings on Life, Beauty and Growing Older.