The Life and Long Career of the Iconic Mary Tyler Moore

This article was originally published on Lizanest.com

Mary Tyler Moore made television look effortless, but her life was anything but simple. Before she became Laura Petrie, Mary Richards, and the face of a new kind of woman on TV, she was a Brooklyn girl chasing spotlight, stability, and control. Behind the smile were broken marriages, family tragedies, addiction, illness, and reinvention, along with the ambition that helped her change television in ways few viewers saw coming.