Sitcom sweetheart Mary Tyler Moore was recovering Friday after undergoing brain surgery, her rep told People magazine.
The 73-year-old actress had an operation to remove a meningioma, or a benign tumor of the lining tissue of the brain, a condition her neurologist had been monitoring for years.
“According to her surgeon, she tolerated the procedure without difficulty and is recovering nicely with her husband at her bedside,” Moore’s rep told the magazine.
After the four-hour procedure, Moore, “will require no additional treatment,” her rep added. The timing and place of the operation were not disclosed.
Moore first broke on to the small screen as Laura Petrie in the popular ’60s series “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” In the ’70s she kept viewers home on Saturday nights to watch “The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which she played a producer — and one of television’s first successful single career women — at a fictional television station in Minneapolis.
Moore also starred in movies and was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in 1980’s “Ordinary People.”