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Valerie Harper
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PHOTOS
VIDEOS
NEWS
CREDITS
BIOGRAPHY
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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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Valerie Harper Credits
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
Actor
Film
An Invasion of Privacy
Actor
TV
Dancing at the Harvest Moon
-Claire
Actor
TV
Death of a Cheerleader
-Mrs. Delvecchio
Actor
TV
Don't Go to Sleep
Actor
TV
Drop-Out Mother
Actor
TV
Family Law
-Julia Hutchins
Actor
TV
Clemency
(2001)
-Julia Hutchins
Actor
TV Episode
Farrell for the People
Actor
TV
Hogan Family
-Valerie Hogan
Actor
TV
I Want Him Back
Actor
TV
Mary and Rhoda
-Rhoda
Actor
TV
Night Terror
Actor
TV
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion
-Dyan Draper
Actor
TV
Rhoda
-Rhoda Morgenstern Gerard
Actor
TV
The Day the Loving Stopped
Actor
TV
The Great Mom Swap
Actor
TV
The People Across the Lake
Actor
TV
The Shadow Box
-Maggie
Actor
TV
Freebie and the Bean
1974
-Bean's Wife
Actor
Film
Fun and Games
-Carol Heffernan
Actor
Film
Mary and Rhoda
-Rhoda Morgenstern Rousseau
Actor
Film
Night Terror
Actor
Film
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion
-Dyan Draper
Actor
Film
Rock, Rock, Rock!
Actor
Film
Stolen: One Husband
-Katherine Slade
Actor
Film
Strange Voices
-Lynn Glover
Actor
Film
The Day the Loving Stopped
-Norma Danner
Actor
Film
The Execution
-Hannah
Actor
Film
The Great Mom Swap
-Grace
Actor
Film
The Last Married Couple in America
-Barbara
Actor
Film
The People Across the Lake
-Rachel Yoman
Actor
Film
The Shadow Box
Actor
Film
Thursday's Game
-Ann Menzente
Actor
Film
Thursday's Game
Actor
Film
An Invasion of Privacy
-Kate Bianchi
Actor
Film
Blame It on Rio
-Karen Hollis
Actor
Film
Chapter Two
-Faye Medwick
Actor
Film
Columbo: The Most Crucial Game
Actor
Film
Dancing at the Harvest Moon
-Claire
Actor
Film
Death of a Cheerleader
-Mrs. Delvecchio
Actor
Film
Don't Go to Sleep
-Laura
Actor
Film
Drop-Out Mother
-Nora Cromwell
Actor
Film
Farrell for the People
-Liz Farrell
Actor
Film
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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
.
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Kathleen Quinlan
Family Law
Aired: May. 14, 2001
Roma Downey
Aired: Apr. 25, 1999
Marvin Walters
Freebie and the Bean
Released: Dec. 25, 1974
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