Hollywood Remembers Cloris Leachman: The ‘Funny Lady Stole Her Way Into Our Hearts’
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variety.comNatalie Oganesyan editorOscar winner and eight-time Emmy winner Cloris Leachman, best remembered as the delightfully neurotic Phyllis Lindstrom on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and her own subsequent sitcom, was remembered by Hollywood as an incredibly hilarious woman and “comedic genius.” She died of natural causes on Tuesday in Encinitas, Calif., and was 94.Her portrayal of Phyllis garnered her two Emmys as a featured actress in a series during the mid-’70s and made her a household name.
She won a supporting actress Academy Award in the early part of the decade for a far different character, an embittered small-town housewife in Peter Bogdanovich’s coming-of-age drama “The Last Picture Show.”Her seemingly overnight success came only after.
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