Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern on television’s The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff, Rhoda, has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.
People magazine reported on its website Wednesday that Valerie Harper the 73-year-old actress received the news on Jan. 15. Tests revealed Valerie Harper has leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare condition that occurs when cancer cells spread into the fluid-filled membrane surrounding the brain. The report says Valerie Harper’s doctors have said she has as little as three months to live.
“I don’t think of dying,” Harper told the magazine in a cover interview. “I think of being here now.”
Valerie Harper’s character, Rhoda, was one of television’s most beloved characters during the 1970s, and the tart-tongued, self-deprecating Rhoda made Harper a star. She won three consecutive Emmys (1971-73) as supporting actress on Mary plus another for outstanding lead actress for Rhoda, which ran from 1974-78.
Valerie Harper began show business as a dancer in several Broadway musicals, and worked in summer stock and with the Second City improv group.
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