Oscar award-winning American actress and comedienne, Cloris Leachman, has died at the age of 94 on Tuesday in Encinitas, Calif.
Leachman who is best remembered for her role as Phyllis Lindstrom (a fictional character) on the sitcom “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” died of natural cause, according to her longtime manager, Juliet Green.
“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,” Green said.
Leachman is a multiple Emmy awards winner who 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.
