ACTOR
Cloris Leachman
- Known for
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Croods: A New Age (2020), History of the World: Part I (1981), Raising Hope (2010)
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Cloris Leachman is an actor best known for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Croods: A New Age and History of the World: Part I.
All facts (34)
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Cloris Leachman won nine Emmy Awards, including one Daytime Emmy, more than any other actor or actress.
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In 1946, Cloris Leachman competed in the Miss Chicago–Miss America pageant.
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In issue 15 of Alternative Medicine Digest (1997), Cloris Leachman posed "au naturel" with her body painted with fruit imagery adorning her nudity. It was a parody or imitation of Demi Moore's famous nude Vanity Fair photograph.
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Cloris Leachman's son Bryan Englund died on February 25, 1986, from an overdose of an ulcer medication.
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On September 20, 1980, Cloris Leachman was honored with a Television Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6435 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
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Cloris Leachman ranked 23rd on the TV Guide Network special TV's Funniest Women (2011).
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When she finished filming Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Cloris Leachman was five months pregnant with her son Adam Englund.
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Cloris Leachman never retired from acting before her death.
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Cloris Leachman grew close to her classmates Paul Lynde and Charlotte Rae. Lynde would come to her dormitory with Rae and Leachman's understudies to stage operas.
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Cloris Leachman's classmates in the Drama Department at Northwestern University included Paul Lynde, Charlotte Rae, Martha Hyer, Patricia Neal and Agnes Nixon. She joined the Gamma Phi Beta sorority at Northwestern University.
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Cloris Leachman was one of two actresses to win both the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (for The Last Picture Show (1971)) and the Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy (for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970)). The other is Allison Janney, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for I, Tonya (2017) and twice won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for "Mom" (2013).
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With George Englund, Cloris Leachman was the mother of actors Adam Englund, Bryan Englund, George Englund Jr. and Morgan Englund, and of actress Dinah Englund.
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In 1958, while four months pregnant during the filming of Lassie (1954), Cloris Leachman suffered a miscarriage.
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Cloris Leachman was born in Polk County, the daughter of Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman (1903–1956) and his wife Cloris Wallace (1901–1967).
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On December 24, 1962, Cloris Leachman appeared as a guest star in three prime-time television series: Cousin Eunice (1962), A Night of Horns and Bells (1962) and Everything for a Laugh (1962).
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Cloris Leachman appeared on television for eighty years and earned her first screen credit with the film Night Must Fall (1948).
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Cloris Leachman appeared in four films with Eileen Brennan: The Last Picture Show (1971), Daisy Miller (1974), Going to the Chapel (1988) and Texasville (1990).
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Cloris Leachman was awarded the 1978 Joseph Jefferson Award for Guest Artist for her performance in the play "Twigs" at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Cloris Leachman is the second of three performers to have won Emmy Awards in all three categories: Comedy, Drama and Limited Series/TV Movie. Edward Asner was the first to do so, and Uzo Aduba joined them in 2020.
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Cloris Leachman had seven grandchildren, including her grandson Skye Englund.
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Cloris Leachman performed the coin toss at the 95th Rose Bowl game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the University of Southern California Trojans on January 1, 2009.
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Cloris and George Englund actually separated in 1974 but did not divorce until 1978.
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Cloris Leachman died on January 26, 2021, three months before her 95th birthday on April 30. After her death she was cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea.
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Cloris Leachman was a graduate of the Stella Adler Acting Studio.
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Cloris Leachman became the 70th actor to win an Oscar, taking the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Last Picture Show (1971) at the 44th Annual Academy Awards (1972) on April 10, 1972.
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Cloris Leachman was a close friend of Phyllis Love; they attended Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, together. Leachman was a member of the Theodore Roosevelt High School Hall of Fame in 1987.
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After competing in the 1946 Miss America pageant, Leachman won a scholarship to study with Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio. In 1948 she appeared in the Broadway play "Sundown Beach," directed by Kazan and also featuring Julie Harris, Nehemiah Persoff and Phyllis Thaxter.
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Cloris Leachman's maternal grandmother was of Bohemian (Czech) descent, while her other grandparents were of English descent.
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Leachman served as the 2009 Grand Marshal, the 10th woman to hold that role in the parade's history.
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Cloris Leachman was the older sister of the singer Claiborne Cary.
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Cloris Leachman was the grandmother of Skye Englund.
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Cloris Leachman gave birth to her sons Adam Englund, George Englund Jr., Bryan Englund and Morgan Englund naturally, and to her daughter Dinah Englund by emergency cesarean section.
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In July 1973 it was announced that Cloris Leachman and Cybill Shepherd would star in Roman Fever, to be directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
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In 1958 Leachman left Lassie (1954) because she was unhappy with the role of Ruth Martin, and June Lockhart replaced her. Twelve years later, in 1970, Lockhart's then-current series Petticoat Junction (1963) was cancelled and replaced in its time slot by The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970), in which Leachman starred for its first five years.
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