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Cloris Leachman is a prolific actress who has won an Academy Award(R) as well as a record eight Emmy(R) Awards since she made her screen debut in 1955 in the film noir "Kiss Me Deadly." Nearly 20 years later, she won an Oscar for her riveting portrayal of a lonely Texas housewife in "The Last Picture Show." Leachman has appeared in more than 40 feature films, including the comedy classics "Young Frankenstein," "High Anxiety" and "The Muppet Movie," as well as the recent hits "Spanglish" and "The Longest Yard." The actress has ... delighted television viewers for decades in the popular series "Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Phyllis," "Rhoda," "The Facts of Life," "Touched by an Angel," "The Ellen Show," "Malcolm in the Middle," as well as more than 35 miniseries and television movies. Leachman began her acting career on the New York stage and has appeared on Broadway in the plays "Masquerade," "Touch of the Poet," "King of Hearts" and "South Pacific."
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Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an Academy Award, nine-time Emmy and Golden Globe winning American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award.
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Cloris Leachman has two Emmy nominations this year: one for her supporting role in Mrs. Harris and another for her guest shot on Malcolm in the Middle. She could just as well have earned a third for her very funny guest turn in Monday's Two and a Half Men.
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BOSTON, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ — Bette Midler and Cloris Leachman head a new list of celebrated actresses joining the ensemble cast of Picturehouse and Inferno Entertainment’s “The Women” now shooting in Boston. Carrie Fisher, Lynn Whitfield, Joanna Gleason, Ana Gasteyer and Debi Mazar will ... now appear in the comedy directed by Diane English from her adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce’s iconic play, which was first filmed in 1939 by George Cukor. Already working on the film are Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Candice Bergen. The comedy is produced by Victoria Pearman and Mick Jagger of Jagged Films and Bill Johnson of Inferno as well as English. The cast of characters include the following: Bette Midler plays a five time divorcee; Cloris Leachman plays a housekeeper; Carrie Fisher plays a noted magazine writer; Lynn Whitfield plays the head fashion buyer for Saks Fifth Avenue; Joanna Gleason plays a high society diva; Ana Gasteyer plays a co-worker at Saks Fifth Avenue with Eva Mendes’ character, ‘Crystal Allen’; Debi Mazar plays a manicurist at Saks.
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Cloris Leachman grew up in Iowa, and began appearing on a local radio show when she was 11. By the age of 17, she was a regular in Des Moines area amateur plays. In her early 20s, she was in the original Broadway run of South Pacific, and moonlighting on live TV anthologies such as Actor's Studio, Kraft Television Theatre, and Lux Video Theatre. She has been a regular cast member on at least ten television series, including the original Bob and Ray Show. She became famous as Mary Tyler Moore's nosy and neurotic neighbor Phyllis, and later had her own Phyllis spin-off. She replaced Charlotte Rae on The Facts of Life, and played Frankie Muñiz's grandmother on Malcolm in the Middle.
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Cloris Leachman was born in De Moines, Iowa, on 30 April 1926. She and George Englund married in 1953 and divorced in 1979. They had five children: George Englund, Jr., Bryan Englund, Adam Englund, Dinah Englund, and Morgan Englund, all of whom have carried on the family’s career in show business. George Englund, Jr., was the second husband of actress Sharon Stone.23
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