What was Cloris Leachman's net worth? One of the oldest working actors in Hollywood dies at age 94
Cloris Leachman, one of the oldest working actors, who won an Academy Award for her performance in ‘The Last Picture Show’, and playing Phyllis Lindstrom on ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’, died on Wednesday at her home in Encinitas, California, at the age of 94. As per reports, she died of natural causes, but no further details have yet been disclosed.
“It’s been my privilege to work with Cloris Leachman, one of the most fearless actresses of our time,” her longtime manager Juliet Green said. “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’s long and outstanding career
Leachman entered the spotlight as a Miss America contestant in 1946. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, on April 30, 1926, Leachman grew up in a rural area beyond the city limits. Her father was a lumber company owner. She was the oldest of three children -- her younger sister would also become an actress, under the name Claiborne Cary. Leachman attended Northwestern University on a drama scholarship. While there, she did modeling and even won the Miss Chicago beauty contest.
Her movie career began in 1955 with ‘Kiss Me Deadly’. Throughout the rest of the 1950s and the ’60s, she appeared in big roles on the small screen, like ‘Lassie’. In 1969, she played the role of a prostitute in ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’. She appeared as a guest star on TV shows like ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘Rawhide’. And following the success of ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’, a spinoff was also made -- ‘Phyllis’ aired on CBS from 1975 to 1977.
Leachman recurred on ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ from 2001 to 2006. Her later film roles included Wes Craven’s ‘Music of the Heart’ and James L. Brooks’s ‘Spanglish’. In 2008, she finished seventh out of 13 contestants on ABC’s ‘Dancing With the Stars’. She was 82 at the time.
While she won one Oscar, between 1972 and 2011, she was nominated for 22 Primetime Emmys and won eight. Leachman’s marriage to the producer George Englund ended in divorce in 1979 after 26 years. Englund died in 2017. Their son Bryan died in 1986. She is survived by two other sons, Adam and George Englund; a daughter, Dinah Englund; and seven grandchildren.
Cloris Leachman’s net worth
As per CelebrityNetWorth.com, Leachman had a net worth of $10 million. As per the website, in 2010, she paid $930,000 for a home in Topanga, California. She listed this home for sale in March 2020 for $3.4 million. Her other home in Topanga, which was purchased for $720,000 in 2010, was sold for around $1 million in 2020.
Leachman was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2011. ‘Cloris: My Autobiography’, a book she had penned with her ex-husband, was published in 2009.