Actress Valerie Harper, who starred as Rhoda in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” one of the most acclaimed TV programs in U.S. history, and the spin-off series “Rhoda,” has died after a long battle with cancer, her family says. She was 80 years old. Harper had just celebrated her birthday a week ago. She is survived by Tony Cacciotti, whom she married in 1987.

 

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