Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman Trivia
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Cloris became the mother-in-law of Sharon Stone when her son George Englund Jr married her. They are now divorced.
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When studying for Elia Kazan in the 1950's, Cloris got to know Marlon Brando. She introduced him to her husband at the time, George Englund, and they got along so well that they later worked together on The Ugly American.
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Cloris was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Drake University in May 2006.
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Cloris played the Slavic woman Grandma Ida on Malcolm in the Middle and was nominated for an Emmy in Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series six times for that part. She won twice, 2002 and 2006.
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Cloris was nominated for a SAG Award for playing the wine-soaked, former jazz singer and grandmother Evelyn in the movie Spanglish.
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Cloris posed on the cover of Alternative Medicine Digest (issue 15, 1997) to imitate and parody the famous Vanity Fair photo of Demi Moore body painted nude. Cloris was au natural and body painted with images of fruit.
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Cloris won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1971's The Last Picture Show. At the same time she got the award she was on the Mary Tyler Moore Show which made her the first actress to win an Academy Award while appearing in a television show.
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Her parents were Buck and Cloris Leachman.
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Cloris is the eldest of three sisters.
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Cloris is left-handed.
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She attended high school in Des Moines, Iowa with Phyllis Love, and they are still close friends.
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Some of Cloris' classmates at the Drama Department of Northwestern University were Paul Lynde, Charlotte Rae, Charlton Heston, Martha Hyer, Patricia Neal, and Agnes Nixon.
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Cloris attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she was a member of the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.
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She has won Emmys in five different categories and as of 2006 she is the only actress who have done so.
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One of Cloris' sons, Bryan Englund, died of an overdose of ulcer medicine in 1986.
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Cloris was Miss Chicago in 1946 and participated in the Miss America contest.
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Cloris has five children with George Englund. The children are all actors and are Adam Englund, Bryan Englund, George Englund Jr., Morgan Englund, and actress Dinah Englund.
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Cloris was married to George Englund from 1953 until they got divorced in 1979.
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Cloris is 5'7" (1.70 m).
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(at the "Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget") Cloris: Do any of you people know who I actually am? I was on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Total slut, by the way.
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(At the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget) Cloris Leachman: For the love of God will someone please punch me in the face so I can see some stars!
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(At the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget) Cloris Leachman: I am not here to roast Bob Saget. I'm here to f*** John Stamos.
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Cloris Leachman: As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.
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Cloris Leachman: I was 18 inches off the floor when I won the Oscar. It took me an hour and a half to get back down to the ground.
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