Vale: Nanette Fabray

Retired US actress Nanette Fabray, best known for the Mary Tyler Moore Show & One Day at a Time, has died, aged 97.

She passed away on Thursday at home in California.

Fabray collected three Emmys in two years, all for appearances on Caesar’s Hour.

On One Day at a Time she played Grandma Katherine Romano (the role played by Rita Moreno in Netflix’s reboot), and on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, she played Mary’s mother.

Other credits included Hollywood Squares, Burke’s Law, Girl From U.N.C.L.E., Love American Style, Maude, Murder She Wrote, The Love Boat, Coach and the films The Band Wagon, Essex and Elizabeth, The Monroe Doctrine, A Child Is Born, Harper Valley P.T.A. and Amy.

Source: TV Guide