Rhoda Faye Morgenstern, portrayed by Valerie Harper, is a fictional character on the television sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

[1][2] She is the daughter of Ida and Martin Morgenstern (Nancy Walker and Harold Gould), and grew up in New York before moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota sometime in the late 1960s.

Relocating from New York City, Rhoda was a window dresser at Hempel's after being fired from Bloomfield's department store in Minneapolis.

This caused the two to initially clash, but in spite of themselves and their differences (Mary was a polite, sophisticated mid-westerner, Rhoda was an astringent, brash New Yorker) they quickly became best friends.

During the broadcast, Monday Night Football host Howard Cosell humorously remarked that he had not been invited to the wedding before returning viewers to the game.

Vogue magazine noted that people went to great lengths to watch the episode, including checking into motels and canceling dinner plans.

By this time she had also married and divorced Jean-Pierre Rousseau, a union which produced her only child, a daughter named Meredith.