Actress Cloris Leachman poses at a 40th anniversary screening of ‘Young Frankenstein’ at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Samuel Goldwyn theatre in Beverly Hills September 9, 2014. — Reuters pic

LOS ANGELES, Jan 28 — American actress Cloris Leachman, who won eight Emmys for her work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and other television programmes as well as an Academy Award for The Last Picture Show, died yesterday at the age of 94, her representatives said.