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			Mary Tyler Moore Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1937, Mary Tyler Moore was raised in Southern California. She got her big break in 1961 when she was cast on The Dick Van Dyke Show as Laura Petrie, a role for which she earned two Emmys. Her starring role as single career woman Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show brought her four more Emmys and widespread critical and popular praise. In 1980, she was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role in the film Ordinary People. An additional Emmy Award in the late 1990s for the Lifetime movie Stolen Babies brought her statue total to a eight over the course of her career, tying her with Dinah Shore as the most Emmy-honored actresses in TV history.

			Ed Asner Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1929, Ed Asner won 5 Emmys for his role as Mary Richards' gruff but loveable boss Lou Grant: three of them on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and two for his own spinoff, Lou Grant. He also won Emmys for his performances in Rich Man, Poor Man and for Roots. An accomplished actor on stage and screen, he performed on Broadway before moving to Hollywood, where he appeared in such films as They Call Me Mr. Tibbs and Fort Apache: The Bronx. Asner served as president of the Screen Actors Guild 1981-1985, and was recently inducted into the Screen Actors Guild Hall of Fame.

			Valerie Harper Born in Suffern, New York in 1940, Valerie Harper began her entertainment career as a dancer at Radio City Music Hall and eventually moved to Chicago to become part of the improv group known as Second City. Her performance as Rhoda Morgenstern, the New York window dresser who is Mary Richards' neighbor, earned her three Emmys. She won a fourth Emmy for her spinoff series, Rhoda. Since that series ended, Harper has starred in the CBS series City and The Office, has toured the country in a stage version of the life of Pearl S. Buck, and has starred in numerous TV-movies, including the 2000 movie Mary and Rhoda, in which she reunited with former co-star Mary Tyler Moore.

			Ted Knight Born Tadewurz Konopka in 1923 in Terryville, Connecticut, Ted Knight first entered the entertainment business as a disc jockey, ventriloquist, and puppeteer. He appeared in such 1960s television series as Wild, Wild West and The Outer Limits; he won an Emmy for his performance as TV broadcaster Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After the show ended, he starred in his own series, Too Close for Comfort, and in the Bill Murray film Caddyshack. He died in 1986.

			Gavin MacLeod Born in Mt. Kisco, New York in 1931, Gavin MacLeod starred as Happy in McHale's Navy from 1961-65, and guest-starred in such series as Hawaii Five-0, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Munsters. After his successful tenure as newswriter Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, he took on the role of Captain Merrill Stubing in the long-running series The Love Boat.

			Betty White Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1922, Betty White has been acting on television for some 50 years. The long-time host of the Tournament of Roses, she found her most lasting fame as the "Happy Homemaker," Sue Ann Nivens, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and went on to play Rose on the long-running series The Golden Girls. She won Emmys for each role. But in addition to those long-running hits, White starred in nearly a dozen TV series, among them Life with Elizabeth, The Betty White Show, Mama's Family, Maybe This Time, Golden Palace and Ladies Man. She has also recently been seen in such feature films as Lake Placid and The Story of Us.

			Cloris Leachman Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1926, Cloris Leachman has performed in more than 30 movies and more than 70 television series, and has won six Emmys and an Oscar, amongst her many other awards. Her performance as Phyllis Lindstrom (1970-75) earned her four Emmy nominations and two Emmy awards; she won a Golden Globe for her work in her spinoff series, Phyllis, in 1976. A 1946 Miss America runner-up, Leachman used her pageant earnings to move to New York, where she enjoyed a successful stage career. In the 1950s she moved to Hollywood and became a guest-star fixture in the leading television dramas as well as appearing in supporting roles on the big screen. Most recently, Leachman starred in the CBS comedy series, Ellen.

			Georgia Engel Born in Washington DC in 1948, Georgia Bright Engel made her Broadway debut in a 1970 production of Hello Dolly with Ethel Merman. In 1972 she made her first appearance on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, playing Rhoda Morgenstern's co-worker, Georgette Franklin. As the character evolved, Georgette became a friend of Mary's and then the wife of Ted Baxter, and remained on the show until its final episode. After The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Engel went on to play a recurring role as Shirley Burleigh on the sitcom Coach.