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Cloris Leachman

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Actress Cloris Leachman's has won nine Emmys, a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award. She is the only woman to win eight Primetime Emmy Awards and one Daytime Emmy. Leachman is well-known for her portraying the character of Phyllis on the TV series Phyllis and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She also played Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein, Nurse Diesel in High Anxiety, and Ruth Popper in The Last Picture Show. She has already completed three new films for 2008: The Women, American Cowslip and New York I Love You. She is currently touring with her one-woman show, CLORIS! Cloris will dance with World Latin Champion Corky Ballas.

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