Cloris Leachman, the Academy Award-winning actress best remembered for starring in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” died in her sleep on Tuesday night. She was 94 years-old.

Leachman’s death was confirmed to Entertainment Tonight by her rep, who said that she died at her home in Encinitas, California with her daughter Dinah by her side.

Born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1926, Leachman never planned on becoming a Hollywood star.

“It wasn’t, ‘Oh I want to be a star. Oh Hollywood!’ ever. It was different from that,” she said in a 1987 interview. “It was just something that developed.”

Yet a Hollywood star she did become, as she had nearly 300 film and television credits to her name at the time of her death. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1972 for her work in The Last Picture Show, a Golden Globe in 1976 for her television show “Phyllis,” and seven Emmy Awards throughout her career for various projects. The Emmy wins had actually been predicted when Leachman was a child by a palm reader, who ended up being off by one in predicting that she would go on to win eight.

“She read my palm and I remember the words. Absolutely these words, ‘Some day, you will be before millions of people.’ And there wasn’t any such thing as television [at that time],” Leachman recalled  “How could I be before millions of people? It was unbelievable. That and I saw myself as a child standing in light and I didn’t interpret it but I saw myself standing in light and many times when I’m standing in light I think about that.”

Leachman was married to film director and editor George Englund from 1953 until they divorced in 1979, and they had five children together. Four of them survive Leachman, but she tragically lost her son Bryan to a drug overdose in 1986.

Leachman continued working right up until her death, with two projects she completed that have yet to be released. She was a character actress who showed that she was capable of playing roles in any genre, but it was comedic roles that were her favorite.

“I adore comedy,” Leachman once gushed. “I like to do it over and over again until I just get sick of it. If something is funny, oh do it again. Part of it is common experience. I have experienced everything that any women could have experienced. There is nothing you can name that I have not experienced, that I can think of.”

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