Jan 25, 2017

Legendary actress Mary Tyler Moore, who delighted a generation of Americans with her energetic comic performances, died January 25, 2017 after suffering years of ill health, according to US media reports. She was 80. Moore’s eponymous sitcom ran for seven seasons in the 1970s and was named by Time Magazine as one of 17 shows that “changed television.” She had been battling diabetes for years and underwent brain surgery in 2011. She was suffering from “a number of health problems” and died in hospital in Connecticut, celebrity news website TMZ and the Los Angeles Times reported.

: (FILES) This file photo taken on June 24, 2009 shows US actress Mary Tyler Moore during Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Legendary actress Mary Tyler Moore, who delighted a generation of Americans with her energetic comic performances, died January 25, 2017 after suffering years of ill health, according to US media reports. She was 80. Moore’s eponymous sitcom ran for seven seasons in the 1970s and was named by Time Magazine as one of 17 shows that “changed television.” She had been battling diabetes for years and underwent brain surgery in 2011. She was suffering from “a number of health problems” and died in hospital in Connecticut, celebrity news website TMZ and the Los Angeles Times reported. (Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images)

: People walk past flowers placeded on actress Mary Tyler Moore’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star on January 25, 2017 in Hollywood, California. Legendary actress Mary Tyler Moore, who delighted a generation of Americans with her energetic comic performances and broke barriers with her iconic portrayal of a single career woman, died on January 25, 2017 after years of ill health. She was 80. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

: Flowers are placed on the actress Mary Tyler Moore’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star on January 25, 2017 in Hollywood, California. Legendary actress Mary Tyler Moore, who delighted a generation of Americans with her energetic comic performances and broke barriers with her iconic portrayal of a single career woman, died on January 25, 2017 after years of ill health. She was 80. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

: Flowers sit on the actress Mary Tyler Moore’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star on January 25, 2017 in Hollywood, California. Legendary actress Mary Tyler Moore, who delighted a generation of Americans with her energetic comic performances and broke barriers with her iconic portrayal of a single career woman, died on January 25, 2017 after years of ill health. She was 80. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

: Ana Martinez of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce signs a card on a wreath for actress Mary Tyler Moore beside her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 25, 2017 in Hollywood, California. Legendary actress Mary Tyler Moore, who delighted a generation of Americans with her energetic comic performances and broke barriers with her iconic portrayal of a single career woman, died on January 25, 2017 after years of ill health. She was 80. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)

: In the May 8, 2002 photo, actress Mary Tyler Moore, standing beside a statue depicting her legendary tam toss, tossed another tam as the bronze statue of her was unveiled on Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. Moore, 80, died Wednesday, Jna. 25, 2017. The statue depicts her tossing her tam into the air as she did in the opening credits of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” (Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP)

: This photo taken in 1996 shows Mary Tyler Moore tossing her hat up as she revisits the Minneapolis Kenwood neighborhood house which was her television “home” for the television show The Mary Tyler Moore Show some 25 years ago. (Cheryl A. Meyer/Star Tribune via AP)

: LOS ANGELES, CA – 1979: Academy Award-nominated film and Emmy Award-winning television actress, Mary Tyler Moore, poses during a 1979 Los Angeles, California, photo portrait session. Mary Tyler Moore first appeared in the role of Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” in the 1960s. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

: LOS ANGELES – NOVEMBER 13: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW. Episode: “Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra.” Featuring Mary Tyler Moore (as Laura Petrie) and others. Image dated November 13, 1962. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

: 1970: Mary Tyler Moore looks surprised while attempting to set her watch in front of a wall of clocks, all of which show different time zones, in a promotional portrait for the TV program ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

: American actress Mary Tyler Moore (as Mary Richards) sleeps on a desk in a scene from the ‘Mary’s Insomnia’ episode of ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ (also known as ‘Mary Tyler Moore’), Los Angeles, California, September 17, 1976. Gathered around her are, fron left, fellow actors Ed Asner (as Lou Grant, on whose desk Mary sleeps), Gavin MacLeod (as Murray Slaughter), and Ted Knight (1923 – 1986) (as Ted Baxter). The episode originally aired on December 4, 1976 (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

: American actress Mary Tyler Moore (as Mary Richards) sits at her desk, hand on her chin, and looks thoughtful in a scene from ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ (also known as ‘Mary Tyler Moore’), Los Angeles, California, mid 1970s. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

: LOS ANGELES – JULY 10: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW episode: “Washington vs. the Bunny” featuring Mary Tyler Moore (as Laura Petrie) ; Larry Mathews (as Ritchie Petrie ) and Dick Van Dyke (as Rob Petrie). Image dated July 10, 1961. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

: American actress Mary Tyler Moore (as Mary Richards) sits at her new desk and sharpens pencils in an electric sharpener after being hired in the newsroom of television station WJM in a scene from the ‘Love Is All Around’ episode of ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ (also known as ‘Mary Tyler Moore’), Los Angeles, California, July 30, 1970. The episode, the debut episode of the show, originally aired on September 15, 1970. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

: American actress Mary Tyler Moore, as Mary Richards, poses for a publicity portrait for the CBS situation comedy ‘Mary Tyler Moore,’ Studio City, Los Angeles, California, 1976. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

: American actress and commediene Mary Tyler Moore (as Mary Richards) smiles broadly as she sits at a desk in a scene from ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ (also known as ‘Mary Tyler Moore’), Los Angeles, California, 1970. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

: A single rose was placed on a Mary Tyler Moore statue located in the Meet Minneapolis visitor center on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017; the actress died Wednesday at 80. (Aaron Lavinsky/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS)

: Alyssa Leary of Minneapolis places flowers at the base of Mary Tyler Moore’s statue in the Meet Minneapolis visitor center on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017; the actress died Wednesday at 80. (Aaron Lavinsky/Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS)

Mary Tyler Moore dies at 80

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