Legendary actress Mary Tyler Moore has passed away at the age of 80, according to reports.
"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 publicist Mara Buxbaum said.
Moore was fearless and inspirational, and perhaps none more so than when she launched The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the early 1970s, with its progressive ideas of an independent woman taking charge of her own life and career from within a Minneapolis newsroom. That show, of course, was proceeded by Moore's time on The Dick Van Dyke Show, where most of America first fell in love with the spunky, take-charge actress.
Moore, who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 33 and spent much of her career battling the disease, worked predominantly in television, headlining various shows and specials. In 1980 she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in the Robert Redford-directed drama Ordinary People.
