US comedy legend Cloris Leachman dies

American actress Cloris Leachman, who won eight Emmys for her work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and other television programs as well as an Academy Award for The Last Picture Show, died on Wednesday at the age of 94, her representatives said. Leachman’s publicist said in a statement that the actress died of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, California. She was appeared in three of Mel Brooks’ comic movies, kept acting regularly well into her 90s. She was nominated 12 other times and also won a Daytime Emmy in 1972.