NewsFrom Dancing in a Broadway Chorus to "Dancing With the Stars," Celebrating Valerie Harper on Her BirthdayTony Award nominee Valerie Harper, who recently played Millicent Winter in Nice Work If You Can Get It at the Ogunquit Playhouse, celebrates her birthday August 22. Playbill.com takes a look at her stage career. Happy birthday, Valerie!
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Joseph Marzullo
August 22, 2015
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From Dancing on Broadway to Dancing With the Stars: Celebrating Valerie Harper on Her Birthday
Harper won four Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe playing Rhoda Morgenstern on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its subsequent spin-off "Rhoda".
Valerie was nominated for a Tony Award in 2010 for Looped. Her other Broadway credits includeThe Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Paul Sills' Story Theatre, Something Different, Subways Are for Sleeping, Wildcat, Take Me Along, and Li'l Abner. Her Off-Broadway outings include Death Defying Acts and All Under Heaven. Harper also starred in the National tour and the film version of Golda's Balcony.
"I, Rhoda", Valerie's memoir, was released in 2013 by Gallery Books.
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