Mary Tyler Moore, Emmy-winning sitcom star, dead at 80

Mary Tyler Moore arrives for the TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, California, March 19, 2006. Photo: Reuters

Emmy-winning actress Mary Tyler Moore, who brightened American television screens as the perky suburban housewife on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and then as a fledgling feminist on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died on Jan 25 at the age of 80, a representative said.

Moore, who won seven Emmy Awards for her television work, died in the company of friends and her husband, Dr. S. Robert Levine, representative Mara Buxbaum said in a statement.