Valerie Harper

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Nationality: American
Birthdate: 08/22/1940
Birthplace: Suffern, New York, USA

biography

Valerie Harper has starred in well over a dozen TV-movies, appeared on and off Broadway and had roles in a handful of feature films, but it is as Rhoda Morgenstern, Mary Tyler Moore's Bronx-born, no-nonsense, comic sidekick with which the audience most connected and for which she will always be remembered. The Rhoda Morgenstern of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (CBS, 1970-74) was overweight (at least during the first season), man-hungry, and Jewish--the perfect foil for Moore's WASPy apple-pie persona. The audience loved the character so much that CBS gave Harper her own show, "Rhoda" (1974-78). Continued

Credits

(TV Show)
2008-2008
Barbara
2008
(TV Show)
2005-2005
Lily
2005
(TV Show)
2003-2004
Judith
2004
(TV Show)
1999-1999
Wallis
1999
Bean's Wife
1974
Golda Meir
Faye Medwick
Karen Hollis

milestones

Year
Milestone
1956 
Was a member of the corps de ballet, Radio City Music Hall
1956 
Film debut, as an extra in "Rock, Rock, Rock!"
1958 
Broadway debut in the chorus of "Li'l Abner", choreographed by Michael Kidd
1960 
Was in chorus of "Wildcat", starring Lucille Ball and directed by Kidd
 
Appeared with Second City company
Continued

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