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Quinta Brunson Receives Mary Tyler Moore Visionary Award, Credits 1970s Sitcom Icon as Inspiration

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Angel Saunders

21d ago· 4 min readenNews

Summary

Quinta Brunson, creator and star of Abbott Elementary, received the Mary Tyler Moore Visionary Award at Variety's FYC TV Fest. She credited The Mary Tyler Moore Show as a major inspiration, saying it "went platinum" in her household and was "supremely important" to her. Brunson reflected on what it meant to see another woman achieving her dreams on television, which inspired her own career in sitcoms.

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That show went platinum in my household
The Mary Tyler Moore Show was supremely important to me
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Quinta Brunson is paying tribute to the 1970s actress who inspired her to follow her dreams and star in her own sitcom.

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