Cloris Leachman

American actress and comedian (1926–2021)

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Cloris Leachman was an American actress and comedian who had a long career in entertainment spanning many decades until her death in 2021. She is remembered as a talented performer who made contributions to television and film throughout her professional life.

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Vinony catalogs Cloris Leachman in its Best Supporting Actress collection (88 entries). It also appears in Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Vinony's link graph records 1,119 inbound references to Cloris Leachman, and connects out to South Pacific, Television Hall of Fame and Paris.

Vinony files it under 1926 births, 2021 deaths and 20th-century American actresses.

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Acting · Des Moines, Iowa, USA

Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 26, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. In addition, she won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden…

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Jump, Darling — Margaret2022
High Holiday — Nana2021
Dear Diary: World's First Pranks — Gran (voice)2021
Not to Forget — Donna2021
The Croods: A New Age — Gran (voice)2020
When We Last Spoke — Itasca2020
Being and Nothingness — Ivy2019
Mad About You — Mrs. Mandelbaum2019
I Can Only Imagine — Memaw2018
Lez Bomb — Josephine2018

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: United States
Active from: 1926
Active to: 2021

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Listeners: 122
Total plays: 327

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Fundamental Equations of State for Parahydrogen, Normal Hydrogen, and Orthohydrogen
· 2009 · cited 727x
Revised nomenclature and classification of inherited ichthyoses: Results of the First Ichthyosis Consensus Conference in Sorèze 2009
· 2010 · cited 668x
Hydrogen liquefaction: a review of the fundamental physics, engineering practice and future opportunities
· 2022 · cited 528x
Melanocytes as Instigators and Victims of Oxidative Stress
· 2014 · cited 354x
Features associated with germline CDKN2A mutations: a GenoMEL study of melanoma-prone families from three continents
· 2006 · cited 352x

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Quotes

“Citizens’ right to document cruelty to animals — wherever it occurs — is crucial in helping local, state and federal officials enforce anti-cruelty laws. Authorities can’t be everywhere at once, and funding for enforcement of anti-cruelty laws is sorely lacking in most places. What we need are more cameras on factory farms, not fewer.”

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Image: Cloris Leachman 2014 crop.jpg
Number of children: 5

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Commons category: Cloris Leachman
date of birth: 1926-04-30
Commons gallery: Cloris Leachman
name in native language: Cloris Leachman
start of work period: 1942-00-00
social media followers: 72620
date of death: 2021-01-26
end of work period: 2021-00-00
alternative name: The Miss of Chicago
birth name: Cloris Wallace Leachman

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Encyclopedic overview

Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nine decades. She received many accolades including 22 Primetime Emmy nominations of which she won eight; with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, she is tied for the distinction of most acting Emmy Awards ever awarded to a performer. Leachman also won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. She was known for her versatility and distinctive physicality, where she used props to accentuate and express her roles' characterizations.

Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Leachman attended Northwestern University and began appearing in local plays as a teenager. 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. In film, she appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971) as a neglected 1950s housewife who has an affair with a student of her husband, a high-school gym teacher; she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She was part of Mel Brooks' ensemble cast, playing Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein (1974), Nurse Diesel in High Anxiety (1977) and Madame Defarge in History of the World, Part I (1981).

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