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Valerie Harper: US sitcom actor forever associated with her character Rhoda

  • Valerie Harper was best known for her performances on two of the most popular US sitcoms of the 1970s as the chronically single, irrepressibly funny New Yorker Rhoda Morgenstern.Harper, who has died aged 80, amassed four Emmys during her time as Rhoda – three for her sidekick role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977, and one as the lead character in the spin-off Rhoda, which ran from 1974 to 1978 on the same network.
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