Cloris Leachman, DFA (h.c.) (born April 30, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American actress of stage, film and TV.

Biography

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Early life

Leachman, the eldest of three sisters, was born in Des Moines, Iowa to Buck and Cloris Leachman. She majored in drama at Northwestern University, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta and was classmates with future comic actor Paul Lynde. Leachman began appearing on television and in films shortly following a run for Miss America as "Miss Chicago (1946)".

Career

Leachman has won numerous awards during her lengthy career. In 1978 she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1971's The Last Picture Show, based on the bestselling book by Larry McMurtry. She has also won seven primetime and one daytime Emmy Awards and been nominated 20 times for her work in television over the years, most notably as the character of neighbor/landlady/nosy friend "Phyllis Lindstrom" on the Mary Tyler Moore. The character was a fixture on the Mary Tyler Moore program for five years; she left Minneapolis in 1975 for a spinoff series, Phyllis for which she garnered a Golden Globe. In 1986, she returned to television, replacing Charlotte Rae as the den mother on The Facts of Life. Leachman's role, playing Rae's sister, Beverly Ann Stickle, could not save the aging series and it was canceled two years later.

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