Cloris Leachman is a veteran American comedian and actress. A versatile personality, she has crafted an incredibly diverse filmography over the course of her 75-year career. Leachman began her long journey at a slow pace. As a teenager, she performed on stage along with other youths of her locality at Drake University in Des Moines. Her first foray into the world of glamour was as a contestant in Miss America in 1946. She made her screen debut in an uncredited role in the 1947 musical drama ‘Carnegie Hall’. In 1948, she was cast in ABC’s ‘Actor’s Studio’, one of the first dramatic television series to be ever made. Her earliest appearance in a major film role came about in 1955 in ‘Kiss Me Deadly.’ In the ensuing years, she worked with Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Hepburn, Jeff Bridges, Ben Johnson, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert De Niro, Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, and Bryan Cranston and won eight Primetime Emmys, one Daytime Emmy, and one Academy Award. In 2008, at the age of 82, she participated in the dance reality show ‘Dancing with the Stars’, effectively becoming the oldest person to compete in the history of the show.