she is from galileeNo, actually Mary Richards is from Roseburg, Minnesota.
The character's name is Mary Richards, but she's played by Mary tyler Moore.
5'7"
At the National Press Club on 5/28/09, she said that she was not on an insulin pump; doesn't like the idea of something "attached to her" at all times.
No, she had a son, but he died in an accidental shooting in 1980.