In film, she appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971) as the neglected wife of a closeted schoolteacher in the 1950s she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance, and the film is widely considered to be one of the greatest of all time. 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. She won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award.īorn and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Leachman attended Northwestern University and began appearing in local plays as a teenager. She 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 (Ap– January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nearly eight decades.
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