Cloris Leachman
Her eight prime-time Emmy Awards are the most ever by a single actress; she also won a daytime Emmy for the 1983 ABC Afterschool Special, The Woman Who Willed a Miracle… Cloris Leachman was married to producer George Englund from 1953 until their divorce in 1979. They had four sons and a daughter: Adam (b. 1954), Brian (b. 1956), George Jr. (b. 1957) and Morgan (b. 1964), and Dinah (birthdate unknown)… Before Cloris Leachman, the oldest Dancing With the Stars contestant was George Hamilton at age 66… Another actress of the same physical type is Irene Ryan of Beverly Hillbillies fame… Cloris Leachman studied at Elia Kazan’s Actor’s Studio in New York in the 1940s; Marlon Brando was a fellow student.
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The Hollywood Reporter has her 2021 obituary
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Her love-to-hate-her character has her own surprisingly long page
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Inside Out praises Leachman's performance in this 2020 drama
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