Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman

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Cloris Leachman was born on Apr 30, 1926 in USA. Cloris Leachman's big-screen debut came with Carnegie Hall directed by Edgar G. Ulmer in 1947. Cloris Leachman is known for I Can Only Imagine directed by Andrew Erwin, J. Michael Finley stars as Bart and Madeline Carroll as Shannon. Cloris Leachman has got 31 awards and 42 nominations so far. The most recent award Cloris Leachman achieved is Film Arts and Hearts Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Cloris Leachman plays is High Holiday which will be released on Nov 01, 2021.

The legendary actress set a record when at age 82, she appeared on Dancing with the Stars (2005). Cloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa to Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman and the former Cloris Wallace. Her father's family owned a lumber company, Leachman Lumber Co. She was of Czech (from her maternal grandmother) and English descent. After graduating from high school, Leachman attended Illinois State University and Northwestern University, where she majored in drama. After winning the title of Miss Chicago 1946 (as part of the Miss America pageant), she acted with the Des Moines Playhouse before moving to New York.Leachman made her credited debut in 1948 in an episode of The Ford Theatre Hour (1948) and appeared in many television anthologies and series before becoming a regular on The Bob & Ray Show (1951) in 1952. Her movie debut was memorable, playing the doomed blonde femme fatale Christina Bailey in Robert Aldrich's classic noir En quatrième vitesse (1955). Other than a role in Rod Serling's movie Le supplice des aveux (1956) in support of Paul Newman, Leachman remained a television actress throughout the 1950s and the 1960s, appearing in only two movies during the latter decade, Les liaisons coupables (1962) and Butch Cassidy et le Kid (1969). Though she would win an Oscar for Peter Bogdanovich's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's La dernière séance (1971) and appear in three Mel Brooks movies, it was in television that her career remained and her fame was assured in the 1970s and into the second decade of the new millennium.Leachman was nominated five times for an Emmy Award playing Phyllis Lindstrom, Mary Tyler Moore's landlady and self-described best friend on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) and on the spin-off series Phyllis (1975). She won twice as Best Supporting Actress in a comedy for her "Mary Tyler Moore" gig and won a Golden Globe Award as a leading performer in comedy for "Phyllis", but her first Emmy Award came in the category Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1973 for the television movie A Brand New Life (1973). She also won two Emmy Awards as a supporting player for Malcolm (2000).She was married to director-producer George Englund from 1953 to 1979. They had five children together. Cloris Leachman died of natural causes on January 27, 2021 in Encinitas, California.

  • Birthday

    Apr 30, 1926
  • Place of Birth

    Des Moines, Iowa, USA

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Awards

31 wins & 42 nominations

Film Arts and Hearts Film Festival
2022
Best Drama
Winner - Film Festival Award
Not to Forget (2021)
MegaFlix Film Awards
2022
Best Performance
Winner - Platinum Award
Not to Forget (2021)
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