Cloris Leachman, a talented, prolific actress who won an Oscar and several Emmys across a consistent career, has died. She was 94.
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1926, Leachman worked at a theater as a child and began appearing on local radio stations in her teenage years.
She studied at Northwestern before competing in the 1946 Miss America pageant. Leachman didn’t take the top prize, but she won a scholarship, which she used to study under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City.
After success on the stage in South Pacific and As You Like It (appearing in the Shakespeare production opposite Katherine Hepburn), Leachman launched her film career with Carnegie Hall, though her big-screen breakthrough in 1955’s Kiss Me Deadly, where.
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