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Valerie Kathryn Harper (born August 22, 1939)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Valerie Harper Biography )〕〔Harper in 〕 is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Rhoda Morgenstern in the 1970s television series ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' and its spin-off, ''Rhoda'', and later as Valerie Hogan in ''Valerie''. She is a four-time Primetime Emmy Award winner. Her notable film roles include ''Freebie and the Bean'' (1974), and ''Chapter Two'' (1979), both of which garnered her Golden Globe Award nominations. Harper is also known for her stage work, having appeared in several Broadway productions. She started her career as a dancer on Broadway, making her debut in the musical ''Take Me Along'' in 1959. In 2010, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Talullah Bankhead in the play ''Looped''. ==Early life== Harper was born in Suffern, New York, the daughter of Iva Mildred (née McConnell 1910-1988)〔("Death Index-Iva Harper" ). Accessed 7-31-2015〕 and Howard Donald Harper. Her father was a lighting salesman, and her mother was born in Canada and trained as a nurse. She is the middle child of three siblings. She has an older sister, Leah; a younger brother, Merrill (who later took the name "Don") and a half-sister, Virginia, from her father's second marriage. She claims her parents were expecting a boy and after her arrival, her first and middle names derived from that year's women's doubles tennis champions, Valerie Scott and Kay Stammers.〔Harper, Valerie. ''I Rhoda: A Memoir'' © 2013. Gallery Books (Simon & Schuster, Inc.); ISBN 978-1-4516-9946-3/ISBN 978-1-4516-9948-7 (ebok), pg. 8〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Good as Golda; Yes, that is veteran actress Valerie Harper playing Israel's 1970s prime minister in a play coming soon to Toronto. Turns out Rhoda Morgenstern has Canadian roots )〕 She is of French, English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. Harper claims to have based her future character Rhoda Morgenstern on her Italian stepmother, Angela Posillico, and Penny Ann Green (née Joanna Greenberg), with whom she danced in the Broadway musical ''Wildcat''.〔 She was raised Catholic, although at an early age she "quit" the church. The family moved every two years due to her father's work, attending schools in South Orange, New Jersey; Pasadena, California; Monroe, Michigan; Ashland, Oregon; and Jersey City, New Jersey. When her family returned to Oregon, Harper remained in the New York City area to study ballet. She attended Lincoln High School in Jersey City, graduating from the private Young Professionals School on West 56th Street, where classmates included Sal Mineo, Tuesday Weld, and Carol Lynley.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Valerie Harper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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