Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nearly eight decades. She won many accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded performer in Emmy history.[1] Leachman also won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Leachman attended Northwestern University and began appearing in local plays as a teenager. After competing in the 1946 Miss America pageant, she secured a scholarship to study under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City, making her professional debut in 1948. In film, she appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971) as the neglected wife of a closeted schoolteacher in the 1950s; she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was part of Mel Brooks's ensemble cast, playing Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein (1974), Nurse Diesel in High Anxiety (1977) and Madame Defarge in History of the World, Part I (1981).
Leachman won additional Emmys for her role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1975) and a Golden Globe for the spinoff Phyllis (1975-1977), in which she starred. She also appeared in television film A Brand New Life (1973); the variety sketch show Cher (1975); the ABC Afterschool Special production The Woman Who Willed a Miracle (1983); and the television shows Promised Land (1998) and Malcolm in the Middle (2000–06).[1] Her other television credits include Gunsmoke (1961), Wagon Train (1962), The Twilight Zone (1961; 2003), and Raising Hope (2010–2014). She also acted in the films Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), WUSA (1970), Yesterday (1981), Castle in the Sky (1986), Spanglish (2004), and Mrs. Harris (2005). She wrote her memoir Cloris: My Autobiography (2009).
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ClorisLeachman (April 30, 1926 – January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nearly eight decades. She won many accolades...
the list of film, television and theatre credits of American actress ClorisLeachman. She appeared in films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid...
ClorisLeachman was an American actress and comedian who received numerous accolades throughout her career. She won eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22...
includes Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, ClorisLeachman, and Cybill Shepherd. Set in a small town in northern Texas from November...
ClorisLeachman from 1953 to 1979. They had five children: Adam, Bryan (1955-1986), George, Jr., Morgan, and Dinah. While he was married to Leachman he...
airing from September 24, 2001, to January 11, 2002. It also starred ClorisLeachman, Martin Mull, Kerri Kenney, Jim Gaffigan, and Emily Rutherfurd, with...
White, Valerie Harper as friend and neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern, and ClorisLeachman as friend and landlady Phyllis Lindstrom. The Mary Tyler Moore Show...
Tree, Iowa, the daughter of Cloris (née Wallace) and Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman, who worked at the family-owned Leachman Lumber Company. She was raised...
Kevin Hardesty, Louis Gossett Jr., Tatum O'Neal, George Chakiris, ClorisLeachman and Olympia Dukakis, the latter two in their final film appearances...
Frankenstein. Peter Boyle portrayed the monster. The film co-stars Teri Garr, ClorisLeachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, and Gene...
was in Silent Movie). Veteran Brooks ensemble members Harvey Korman, ClorisLeachman, and Madeline Kahn are also featured. It is a parody of psychoanalysis...
was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, and ClorisLeachman was nominated for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Plimpton...
Olivia Olson in most appearances, by Ava Acres as a child, and by ClorisLeachman as an older woman. Marceline is a fun-loving 1,000-year-old vampire...
Forte, Ralf Möller, Mo'Nique, Eric Christian Olsen, Jürgen Prochnow, ClorisLeachman, and Donald Sutherland. The film was theatrically released on August...
that three regular characters, Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morgenstern, ClorisLeachman as Phyllis Lindstrom, and Ed Asner as Lou Grant spun off into their...
made-for-television thriller film starring Michael Biehn, Madolyn Smith and ClorisLeachman. A sequel titled Deadly Intentions... Again? was released in 1991....
Leachman is a surname. People with the name include: Andrew Leachman (1945–2017), a New Zealand master mariner and writer ClorisLeachman (1926–2021)...
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