Oscar winning actress Cloris Leachman is dead

Multiple award-winning American actress and comedian Cloris Leachman has died at the age of 94.

According to her publicist, Monique Moss, Leachman died in her sleep of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, California with her daughter by her side.

The actress is popular for her role in “The Last Picture Show”. Some other movies the actress featured in are: Young Frankenstein, The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Her longtime manager Juliet Green on also had something to say about her. According to Juliet in a statement, there is no one like Leachman.

Green’s statement reads: “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.”

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”

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

Although she started out as Miss Chicago in the Miss America Pageant, Leachman willingly accepted unglamorous screen roles and got repaid with stardom.