Television Pioneer Mary Tyler Moore Has Died

Television icon Mary Tyler Moore has died.

After rising to fame on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Tyler Moore saw her own success with the ’70s sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which ran from 1970 to 1977. On the series, Moore played Mary Richards a spunky single TV news producer. Richards was nobody’s wife, widow, mother, or girlfriend She won four daytime Emmys for her work on the series. Back in 2002, Moore told CNN about the role saying, “I think she represents an indomitable spirit — that she believes, as everyone can, in possibilities.”

The actress was 80- years old.