![]() Career 1948–1967: Rise to prominence Jon Shepodd, Jon Provost, and Cloris Leachman in Lassie (1957)Īfter winning a scholarship in the Miss America pageant, placing in the top 16, Leachman studied acting under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City. She began appearing on television and in films shortly after competing in Miss America in 1946 as Miss Chicago. At Northwestern, she became a member of Gamma Phi Beta and was a classmate of future comic actors Paul Lynde and Charlotte Rae. After graduating from high school, she enrolled at Northwestern University in the School of Education. Īs a teenager, Leachman appeared in plays by local youth on weekends at Drake University in Des Moines. Leachman attended Theodore Roosevelt High School. Their maternal grandmother was of Bohemian (Czech) descent. Her other sister, Mary, was not in show business. Her youngest sister, Claiborne Cary, was an actress and singer. Her father worked at the family-owned Leachman Lumber Company. Her parents were Cloris ( née Wallace) and Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman. Leachman was born on April 30, 1926, in Des Moines, Iowa, the eldest of three daughters. She wrote her memoir Cloris: My Autobiography (2009). She also acted in the films Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), WUSA (1970), Yesterday (1981), Castle in the Sky (1998), Spanglish (2004), and Mrs. Her other television credits include Gunsmoke (1961), The Twilight Zone (1961 2003), and Raising Hope (2010–2014). Leachman won additional Emmys for her role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show 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). She was part of Mel Brooks's ensemble cast, playing Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein (1974) and Madame Defarge in History of the World, Part I (1981). 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. 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. Leachman also won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.īorn and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Leachman attended Northwestern University and began appearing in local plays as a teenager. 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. Cloris Leachman (Ap– January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nearly eight decades.
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