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Profile of Valerie Harper
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Valerie Harper |
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Suffern, New York, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Valerie Harper (born August 22, 1940 in Suffern, New York) is an American actress, best known for her television roles.
Harper was born in New York State, but raised in Oregon, and started out as a dancer/chorus girl on Broadway in the late 1950s and early 1960s in such shows such as Take Me Along, Wildcat, and Subways Are for Sleeping. She also appeared in bit parts in several films such as Li'l Abner (1959). But, during the late 1960s, she barely worked, except for appearing in Carl Reiner's play Something Different in 1968 and writing an episode of Love, American Style with her then-husband, actor/writer Richard Schaal, whose daughter, Wendy (who voices "Francine Smith" on American Dad), was her stepdaughter.
Things changed when Harper got the role of the wise-cracking yet vulnerable uber-Jewish New Yorker, Rhoda Morgenstern, on two CBS TV sitcoms of the 1970s: The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off Rhoda, in which she played the title role. Harper won four Emmy awards and a Golden Globe for her work as Rhoda Morgenstern on both series. She also picked up a Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for her role in 1974's Freebie and The Bean.
She also played family matriarch Valerie Hogan on the 1986 sitcom Valerie. It was renamed Valerie's Family in 1987 and finally The Hogan Family in June, 1988 after Harper abruptly left the series (following a dispute with the producers) and was replaced by Sandy Duncan.
Harper has worked almost exclusively in television, and has also had roles in made-for-TV-movies and guest spots on a number of series, including Sex and the City. In the 1990s, she advocated hormone replacement therapy for the Eli Lilly company.
Harper is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and ran for President in the 2001 election, being beaten in a bitter election feud by Melissa Gilbert.
TV Work
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show (cast member from 1970-1974)
- Columbo: The Most Crucial Game (1972)
- Thursday's Game (1974)
- Rhoda (1974-1978)
- Night Terror (1977)
- Fun and Games (1980)
- The Shadow Box (1980)
- The Day the Loving Stopped (1981)
- Farrell for the People (1982)
- Don't Go to Sleep (1982)
- An Invasion of Privacy (1983)
- The Execution (1985)
- Valerie (cast member from 1986-1987)
- Strange Voices (1987)
- Drop-Out Mother (1988)
- The People Across the Lake (1988)
- City (1990) (canceled after 6 months)
- Stolen: One Husband (1990)
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion (1991)
- A Friend to Die For (1994)
- The Office (1995) (canceled after 2 months)
- The Great Mom Swap (1995)
- Dog's Best Friend (1997) (voice)
- Mary and Rhoda (2000)
- Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002)
Filmography
- Rock, Rock, Rock (1956)
- Li'l Abner (1959)
- With a Feminine Touch (1969)
- Freebie and the Bean (1974)
- Chapter Two (1979)
- The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
- Blame It on Rio (1984)
- I Want Him Back! (1995)
External link
- Valerie Harper at the Internet Movie Database
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