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Valerie Kathryn Harper (born August 22, 1939) is an American actress.
She is best known for her roles as Rhoda Morgenstern in the 1970s television series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off, Rhoda, and later as Valerie Hogan in Valerie. She is a four-time Primetime Emmy Award winner. Her notable film roles include Freebie and the Bean (1974), and Chapter Two (1979), both of which garnered her Golden Globe Award nominations.
Harper is also known for her stage work, having appeared in several Broadway productions. She started her career as a dancer on Broadway, making her debut in the musical Take Me Along in 1959. In 2010, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Talullah Bankhead in the play Looped.
Harper was born in Suffern, New York, the daughter of Iva Mildred (née McConnell; 1910-1988) and Howard Donald Harper. Her father was a lighting salesman, and her mother was born in Canada and trained as a nurse. She is the middle child of three siblings. She has an older sister, Leah; a younger brother, Merrill (who later took the name "Don") and a half-sister, Virginia, from her father's second marriage.
Valerie Harper On Overcoming The Odds With Cancer | The Meredith Vieira Show
Valerie Harper on Howard Stern Interview 2015
Valerie Harper on living fearlessly with cancer
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast ~ Valerie Harper 1975
Source - Valerie Harper is in a Coma
Ed Asner and Valerie Harper winning Emmy's in 1970 for The Mary Tyler Moore Show
VALERIE HARPER & DANNY PONCE 1986 TV CLIP
Mary Tyler Moore & Valerie Harper Interview - Part 1 - February 2000
Valerie Harper: How I became "Rhoda"
Cloris Leachman Surprises Valerie Harper on The Doctors
Actors: Lloyd Kaufman (actor), Alison Lees-Taylor (actress), Adam Deyoe (director), Adam Deyoe (editor), Malcolm Bacani (costume designer), Eric Gosselin (actor), Sean McBride (actor), Rosalee Mayeux (miscellaneous crew), Rae Latt (actress), Jake Helgren (writer), Jake Helgren (producer), Diana Hart (actress), Mara Hall (actress), Ryland Swartz (miscellaneous crew), Elizabeth Snoderly (actress),
Plot: When a seventeen-year old aspiring dancer is uprooted mid-semester of her senior year, she finds herself in a small East Coast high school where her heart will be divided between two boys, and she will have one last shot at making her big dream of becoming a dancer a reality.
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