Ordinary People star Mary Tyler Moore died of cardiopulmonary arrest on Wednesday, January 25, weeks after she was placed on a respirator due to her contracted pneumonia.
She passed on at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, aged 80.
Moore was popular for her TV show in the ’70s – The Mary Tyler Moore Show – co-produced with her second husband, Grant Tinke. The couple divorced in 1981.
She won multiple Emmys and Golden Globe awards for her role as Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
‘Today (January 25), 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,’ her spokesperson, Mara Buxbaum, said in a statement.
The Hollywood actress and TV personality is survived by her husband of 34 years, Dr. Robert Levine, whom she married on November 23, 1983, at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.
Her only child, Richie Meeker – whom she gave birth to at the age of 19 – died in October 1980.
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