"I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it."
Valerie Kathryn Harper (August 22, 1939 – August 30, 2019) was an American actor best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977) and its Spin-Off Rhoda (1974–1978). For her work on Mary Tyler Moore, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series three times, and later received the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Rhoda.
She was married to actor Richard Schaal and Tony Cacciotti and she had one child with Cacciotti.
She died in 2019 at the age of 80 after battling cancer.
Film Roles
- Rock Rock Rock as Dancer at Prom (Uncredited Role)
- Li'l Abner as Luke's wife (uncredited)
- Thursdays Game as Ann Menzente (TV Movie)
- Freebie and the Bean as Consuelo
- Chapter Two as Faye Medwick
- The Last Married Couple In America as Barbara
- The Shadow Box as Maggie (TV Movie)
- The Day The Loving Stopped as Norma Danner (TV Movie)
- Dont Go To Sleep 1982 as Laura (TV Movie)
- Blame It on Rio as Karen Hollis
- Strange Voices as Lynn Glover
- Perry Mason The Case Of The Fatal Fashion as Dyan Draper (TV Movie)
- A Fried To Die For as Mrs. Delvecchio (TV Movie)
- The Great Mom Swap as Grace Venessi (TV Movie)
- Dogs Best Friend as Chicken (voice, TV Movie)
- Mary And Rhoda as Rhoda Morgenstern-Rousseau (TV Movie)
- Dancing At The Harvest Moon as Claire (TV Movie)
- Goldas Balcony as Golda Meir
- Fixing Pete as Mrs. Friedlander
- Shiver as Audrey Alden
- My Future Boyfriend as Bobbi Moreau (TV Movie)
- Certainty as Kathryn
Television Roles
- The Doctors as Mrs. Steiner (1 episode)
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Rhoda Morgenstern (92 episodes)
- Rhoda as Rhoda Morgentern Gerard
- Love, American Style as Barbara Watkins (1 episode)
- The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour As Herself (1 episode)
- Columbo as Eve Babcock (1 episode)
- The Dick Cavett Show As Herself (1 episode)
- The Carol Burnett Show as Herself (1 episode)
- Nova as Host (1974)
- The Muppet Show as Herself (1 episode)
- Dinah as Herself (1 episode)
- The Love Boat as Laurel Peters (2 episodes)
- The Hogan Family as Valerie Hogan (32 episodes)
- City as Liz Gianni
- Missing Persons 1993 as Ellen Hartig (3 episodes)
- The Office 1995 as Rita Stone
- Touched by an Angel as Kate Prescott (2 episodes)
- The Rosie O Donnell Show as Herself (6 episodes)
- Promised Land (1996) as Molly Arnold (1 epiosde)
- Melrose Place as Mia Mancini (2 episodes)
- Sorcerer Stabber Orphen as Townspeople (1 episode)
- Sex and the City as Wallis Wysel (1 episode)
- Beggers And Choosers (1 episode)
- As Told by Ginger as Maryellen (1 episode)
- That '70s Show as Paula (1 episode)
- Family Law as Julia (1 episode)
- Three Sisters as Merle Keats (2 episodes)
- Less Than Perfect as Judith (2 episodes)
- Committed 2005 as Lily Solomon (1 episodes)
- 'Til Death as Barbara (1 episode)
- Desperate Housewives as Claire Bremmer (1 episode)
- Drop Dead Diva as Judge Leslie Singer (2 episodes)
- The Talk as Herself (1 episode)
- The Simpsons as various (8 episodes)
- Hot in Cleveland as Angie (2 episodes)
- Dancing with the Stars as Herself (2013, 6 episodes)
- American Dad! as IHOP Diner/various (2 episodes)
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered as Theresa Capodiamonte (2 episodes)
- Melissa & Joey as Aunt Bunny (1 episode)
- 2 Broke Girls as Nola (1 episode)
- Childrens Hospital as Mamma Fiorucci (1 episode)
