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Oscar winner and multiple Emmy winner Cloris Leachman is dead. The actress best remembered as Phyllis Lindstrom on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” died of natural causes on Tuesday in Encinitas, California. She was 94.

Emmy Award Winning Actress Cloris Leachman Dies At 94

“It’s been my privilege to work with Cloris Leachman. One of the most fearless actresses of our time. There was no one like Cloris. With a single look, she had the ability to break your heart or make you laugh ’till the tears ran down your face. You never knew what Cloris was going to say or do and that unpredictable quality was part of her unparalleled magic.” Her longtime manager Juliet Green said

The actress earned two Emmys as a featured actress in a series during the mid-’70s. It was this feat that made Leachman a household name.

Emmy Award Winning Actress Cloris Leachman Dies At 94

Leachman also won a supporting actress Oscar in the early part of the decade for a far different character, an embittered small-town housewife in Peter Bogdanovich’s elegiac “The Last Picture Show”; she would later reprise the role in the film’s less successful sequel “Texasville.” Both films were based on the writings of Larry McMurtry.

Overnight success for the actress, however, came only after two decades of hard work in theatre, television, and some films. Leachman was in her 40s when stardom finally hit.

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The actress won a total of eight primetime Emmys, both for drama and comedy, and one daytime Emmy. Leachman was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2011.

“Cloris: My Autobiography” was published in 2009. She penned the bestseller with George Englund, whom she divorced in 1979.

She is survived by sons Adam, George Jr., Morgan, an actor; and a daughter, Dinah.

 

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