Last Updated Jan 25, 2017 4:25 PM EST
New of the death of Mary Tyler Moore spread quickly across Hollywood Wednesday, with many taking to social media to pay tribute.
Ed Asner, who played Moore\u2019s cantankerous boss on \u201cThe Mary Tyler Moore Show,\u201d tweeted, \u201cMy heart goes out to you and your family. Know that I love you and believe in your strength.\u201d
#marytylermoore my heart goes out to you and your family. Know that I love you and believe in your strength.
Other former colleagues released statements as well, including her \u201cOrdinary People\u201d co-stars, Donald Sutherland and Timothy Hutton.
\u201cMary was and is and now always will be perfect,\u201d Sutherland — who played her husband in the film — said. \u201cShe was the perfect actor to work with, the performance she gave was perfect, painfully perfect, and the friendship she offered was perfect. I am in her thrall.\u201d
\u201cI am deeply saddened by the news of Mary\u2019s passing,\u201d Hutton said. \u201cShe was a truly amazing person, a great friend and an inspiration to all. I will always be grateful for her kindness and thankful beyond words for knowing her. She will be missed greatly.\u201d
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Robert Redford, who directed Moore, Sutherland and Hutton in \u201cOrdinary People,\u201d also paid tribute to the late icon.
\u201cMary\u2019s energy, spirit and talent created a new bright spot in the television landscape and she will be very much missed,\u201d Redford said. \u201cThe courage she displayed in taking on a role darker than anything she had ever done was brave and enormously powerful.\u201d
Ben Stiller, who played opposite Moore in 1996\u2019s \u201cFlirting with Disaster,\u201d wrote on Twitter that he \u201cloved Mary Tyler Moore on so many levels it was confusing.\u201d
I loved Mary Tyler Moore on so many levels it was confusing. Such a huge part of our culture and consciousness. Sending love to her family.
Moore served as an inspiration to women on television, in comedy and across the entertainment industry.
\u201cMary Tyler Moore\u2019s humor, style and vulnerability have had a profound influence on me as a television creator and on every woman I know working in television to upend expectations of traditional femininity,\u201d Lena Dunham said in a statement. \u201cHer remarkable presence and ahead-of-her-time ability to expose the condition of single working womanhood with humor and pathos will never be forgotten. Her generosity as an animal rights activist and icon will never be forgotten. I never met her and I\u2019ll love her forever. I know I\u2019m one of millions.\u201d
Mary Tyler Moore changed the world for all women. I send my love to her family.
\u201cShe will be so missed,\u201d Carol Burnett said in a statement. \u201cShe was a pioneer on television and also one of the sweetest, nicest people I ever knew.\u201d
I’m so sad. Oh my gosh. https:\/\/t.co\/uNq5nXp6nj
So sad to learn of the passing of Mary Tyler Moore.<\/p>\n