37 Facts About Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nearly eight decades.

Cloris Leachman's 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's won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award.

Cloris Leachman's was part of Mel Brooks's ensemble cast, appearing in roles such as Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein and Madame Defarge in History of the World, Part I .

Cloris Leachman won additional Emmys for her role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show; television film A Brand New Life ; the variety sketch show Cher ; the ABC Afterschool Special production The Woman Who Willed a Miracle ; and the television shows Promised Land and Malcolm in the Middle .

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Cloris Leachman released her autobiography in 2009, and continued to act in occasional roles until her death.

Cloris Leachman's began appearing on television and in films shortly after competing in Miss America in 1946 as Miss Chicago.

Cloris Leachman's had been cast as a replacement for the role of Nellie Forbush during the original run of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific.

Cloris Leachman was slated to play the role of Abigail Williams in the original Broadway cast of Arthur Miller's seminal drama The Crucible.

However, Cloris Leachman left the production the day before opening night in Wilmington, with Madeleine Sherwood assuming the role.

Cloris Leachman's name was heavily publicized prior to the production's opening, and her name still appeared in the printed program; a sign appeared at the box office in Wilmington noting the change.

Cloris Leachman appeared in many live television broadcasts in the 1950s, including such programs as Suspense and Studio One.

Cloris Leachman's made her feature-film debut as an extra in Carnegie Hall, but her first real role was in Robert Aldrich's film noir Kiss Me Deadly, released in 1955.

Cloris Leachman was several months pregnant during the filming, and appears in one scene running down a darkened highway wearing only a trench coat.

Cloris Leachman's appeared with Newman again in a brief role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid .

Cloris Leachman's later appeared as Ruth Martin, Timmy Martin's adoptive mother, in the last half of season four of Lassie.

In late 1970, Cloris Leachman starred in one episode of That Girl as Don Hollinger's sister, Sandy.

Cloris Leachman played Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Cloris Leachman's was a voice actor in numerous animated films, including My Little Pony: The Movie, A Troll in Central Park, The Iron Giant, Gen¹³, and most notably as the voice of the cantankerous sky pirate Dola in Hayao Miyazaki's 1986 feature Castle in the Sky.

Cloris Leachman played embittered, greedy, Slavic Canadian "Grandma Ida" on the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, for which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series .

Cloris Leachman's was nominated for playing the character for six consecutive years.

Cloris Leachman was nominated for a SAG Award for her role as the wine-soaked former jazz singer and grandmother Evelyn in the Sony feature Spanglish opposite Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni.

Cloris Leachman's appeared in the Kurt Russell comedy Sky High as a school nurse with X-ray vision.

In 2008, Cloris Leachman was a contestant on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, paired with Corky Ballas, the oldest of the professionals and father of two-time champion Mark Ballas.

Cloris Leachman is the oldest person to have competed on the show to date.

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In 2009, Cloris Leachman played alongside Jack Black in the "Stress Relief" episode of Season 5 of The Office, where the two actors appeared as love interests in a fictional movie titled Mrs Albert Hannaday.

Cloris Leachman won a record-setting eight Primetime and one Daytime Emmy Awards, in addition to having been nominated more than 20 times, including for her role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

In May 2015, Cloris Leachman appeared as a special guest star on the Disney Channel's Girl Meets World in an episode entitled "Girl Meets Gravity" .

Cloris Leachman played the role of Memaw in the film I Can Only Imagine, which is about the story behind the song of the same name by MercyMe.

Cloris Leachman appears in the film Not To Forget in her final role.

In 1989, Cloris Leachman starred on Brooks' short-lived NBC sitcom The Nutt House in dual roles as head hotel housekeeper Mrs Frick and Mrs Nutt, the senile owner of the hotel.

Cloris Leachman's auditioned to revive her role from Young Frankenstein in the 2007 Broadway production opposite Megan Mullally and Roger Bart.

Cloris Leachman's co-authored the bestselling book with her ex-husband George Englund.

From 1953 to 1979, Cloris Leachman was married to Hollywood impresario George Englund.

Cloris Leachman was a friend of Mort Sahl and Marlon Brando, whom she met while studying under Elia Kazan in the 1950s.

Cloris Leachman's introduced him to her husband, who became close to Brando, as well, directing him in The Ugly American and writing a memoir about their friendship called Marlon Brando: The Way It's Never Been Done Before .

Cloris Leachman's posed clad in a dress made of lettuce for a 2009 PETA advertisement.