Tony Sokol Aug 31, 2019
Best known as Rhoda, Valerie Harper started as a dancer and never left the stage behind.
Valerie Harper, whose Rhoda Morgenstern character is an icon of television, died on Friday August 30, eight days after her 80th birthday.
"My dad has asked me to pass on this message," Harper’s daughter Cristina Cacciotti, confirmed on Twitter. “'My beautiful caring wife of nearly 40 years has passed away at 10:06 a.m., after years of fighting cancer. She will never, ever be forgotten. Rest In Peace, mia Valeria. -Anthony.'”
The Emmy winning actor was battling lung and brain cancer, according to Variety. When her brain cancer was first diagnosed in January 2013, Harper was told she had three months to live. While she was never cancer-free, she responded well enough to treatment to compete on Dancing with the Stars. Harper started in show business as a dancer, and her defining...
Best known as Rhoda, Valerie Harper started as a dancer and never left the stage behind.
Valerie Harper, whose Rhoda Morgenstern character is an icon of television, died on Friday August 30, eight days after her 80th birthday.
"My dad has asked me to pass on this message," Harper’s daughter Cristina Cacciotti, confirmed on Twitter. “'My beautiful caring wife of nearly 40 years has passed away at 10:06 a.m., after years of fighting cancer. She will never, ever be forgotten. Rest In Peace, mia Valeria. -Anthony.'”
The Emmy winning actor was battling lung and brain cancer, according to Variety. When her brain cancer was first diagnosed in January 2013, Harper was told she had three months to live. While she was never cancer-free, she responded well enough to treatment to compete on Dancing with the Stars. Harper started in show business as a dancer, and her defining...
- 8/31/2019
- Den of Geek
Beloved television sitcom icon Valerie Harper died this Friday at the age of 80 after a long battle with cancer. American TV audiences in the 1970s grew up with Harper in their living rooms on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” in which she played the self-deprecating Rhoda Morgenstern. Rhoda served as the neurotic, comic foil to the otherwise buttoned-up Mary Tyler Moore. Harper won three Primetime Emmy Awards for her performance, and went on to reprise the cherished role in the spinoff series “Rhoda,” for which she also earned an Emmy, in 1975.
Online tributes have been pouring in for the late actress, who graced the big screen in such films as “Freebie and the Bean” (1974) and “Chapter Two” (1979), and earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for her turn as actress Tallulah Bankhead in “Looped.”
Even when she was down she danced and showed the world that...
Online tributes have been pouring in for the late actress, who graced the big screen in such films as “Freebie and the Bean” (1974) and “Chapter Two” (1979), and earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play for her turn as actress Tallulah Bankhead in “Looped.”
Even when she was down she danced and showed the world that...
- 8/31/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Valerie Harper, the actress best known for playing groundbreaking sitcom character Rhoda Morgenstern from 1970 to 1978 on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spinoff “Rhoda,” died Friday. She was 80.
A statement from Harper’s husband Tony Cacciotti was posted on Twitter by their daughter, actress Cristina Cacciotti.
“My beautiful caring wife of nearly 40 years has passed away at 10:06am, after years of fighting cancer,” the statement read. “She will never, ever be forgotten. Rest In Peace, mia Valeria. -Anthony.”
The actress had been battling brain cancer since 2013. In July, her husband wrote in an emotional Facebook post that her doctors recommended she be placed in hospice care. “I can’t [because of our 40 years of shared commitment to each other] and I won’t because of the amazing good deeds she has graced us with while she’s been here on earth,” he wrote at the time.
“We will continue going forward as long as the powers above allow us,...
A statement from Harper’s husband Tony Cacciotti was posted on Twitter by their daughter, actress Cristina Cacciotti.
“My beautiful caring wife of nearly 40 years has passed away at 10:06am, after years of fighting cancer,” the statement read. “She will never, ever be forgotten. Rest In Peace, mia Valeria. -Anthony.”
The actress had been battling brain cancer since 2013. In July, her husband wrote in an emotional Facebook post that her doctors recommended she be placed in hospice care. “I can’t [because of our 40 years of shared commitment to each other] and I won’t because of the amazing good deeds she has graced us with while she’s been here on earth,” he wrote at the time.
“We will continue going forward as long as the powers above allow us,...
- 8/30/2019
- by Nate Jackson
- The Wrap
Valerie Harper, the resilient sitcom star whose nine-season run in the 1970s as wisecracking straight-shooter Rhoda Morgenstern made her one of the most beloved TV actresses of her era, has died after a courageous battle with cancer. She was 80.
Harper, who collected four Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe for playing the brash New Yorker on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and then on her own spinoff series Rhoda, died Friday morning, her family told Kabc-tv entertainment reporter George Pennacchio.
Cristina Cacciotti, Harper's daughter, wrote on Twitter that her father, Tony, asked to share this statement: "My beautiful caring wife ...
Harper, who collected four Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe for playing the brash New Yorker on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and then on her own spinoff series Rhoda, died Friday morning, her family told Kabc-tv entertainment reporter George Pennacchio.
Cristina Cacciotti, Harper's daughter, wrote on Twitter that her father, Tony, asked to share this statement: "My beautiful caring wife ...
- 8/30/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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