Cloris Leachman Net Worth

Cloris Leachman's Quotes

• [on receiving the Best Supporting Actress Oscar, 1972] I'm at a point where I'm free to go out and have a little fun with my career. Some Oscar winners have dropped out of sight, as if they were standing on a trapdoor. Others picked it up and ran with it. I'm going to run with it.
• If you brush your teeth, you don't want to eat something right after because your mouth feels so fresh. So brushing your teeth actually prevents you from eating until later.
• When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.
• The reason I am a good actress, I think, is because the times when I didn't have a good part and you think, "What the hell do you do with it?" You have to figure something out.
• If I were to do some outlandish role, I always made sure I'd be on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) to show that I wasn't that person that I played. I'd be myself. And so people got to know me, I think, and I think they know that I'm honest and truthful and real.

Interesting Facts about Cloris Leachman

1. Miss Chicago of 1946 - Miss America contest.
2. One son, Bryan Englund, passed away from an overdose of ulcer medication on February 25, 1986.
3. Posed "au naturel" on the cover of "Alternative Medicine Digest" (issue 15, 1997) body painted with images of fruit adorning her nakedness. This was a parody, or imitation, of the famous Demi Moore body painted nude Vanity Fair photo.
4. Older sister of chanteuse Claiborne Cary.
5. Mother, with George Englund, of actors Adam Englund, Bryan Englund, George Englund Jr., Morgan Englund and actress Dinah Englund.
6. Her classmates at the Drama Department of Northwestern University included Paul Lynde, Charlotte Rae, Martha Hyer, Patricia Neal and Agnes Nixon. She joined the Gamma Phi Beta sorority at Northwestern University.
7. Was close friends with Phyllis Love. Together, they attended Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa. Leachman was a 1987 inductee of the Theodore Roosevelt High School Hall of Fame.
8. On December 24, 1962, she appeared in three prime-time television series as a guest star: Stoney Burke: Cousin Eunice (1962), Saints and Sinners: A Night of Horns and Bells (1962) and The New Loretta Young Show: Anything for a Laugh (1962).
9. Had seven grandchildren (including granddaughter Skye Englund).
10. Had won nine Emmy Awards (including one Daytime Emmy Award), more than any actor or actress.
11. Along with Bill Mumy, she was one of only two actors to appear in both The Twilight Zone (1959) and its second television revival, The Twilight Zone (2002).
12. Leachman served as the 2009 Grand Marshal, the 10th female grand marshal in the history of the parade.
13. Tossed the coin flip for the 95th Rose Bowl game between the Penn State Nittany Lions and the University of Southern California Trojans on January 1, 2009.
14. She was awarded the 1978 Joseph Jefferson Award for Guest Artist for her performance in the play, "Twigs", at the Marriott Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
15. Born in Polk County, daughter of Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman (1903-1956) and wife Cloris Wallace (1901-1967).
16. Ranked #23 on the TV Guide Network special, Funniest Women on TV (2011).
17. Suffered a miscarriage at 4 months pregnant during the filming of Lassie (1954) in 1958.
18. Was 5 months pregnant with her son Adam Englund when she completed filming Kiss Me Deadly (1955).
19. Had guest-starred in the second-to-last episode of Diagnosis Murder (1993), Diagnosis Murder: On the Beach (2001).
20. She appeared with Madeline Kahn in five films: Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), The Muppet Movie (1979), History of the World: Part I (1981) and My Little Pony: The Movie (1986).