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‘Raising Hope’ Creator Greg Garcia Remembers “One of A Kind” Cloris Leachman

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Television legend Cloris Leachman, who died Tuesday at the age of 94, earned the last of her whopping 22 Emmy nominations for her role as the larger-than-life Maw Maw on Greg Garcia’s 2010 family comedy Raising Hope.Originally conceived as a guest-starring role, Leachman’s Maw Maw, the occasionally lucid, often confused unpredictable great-great-grandmother to Hope, was an instant fan favorite, and Leachman was upped to a series regular in Season 2.

She was a main cast member of the praised Fox comedy for three seasons in her last series regular role. (She later guest starred on Garcia’s follow-up series, CBS’ The Millers.)Garcia had a memorable first meeting with Leachman on the stage of the 2006 Emmy Awards where the eight-time

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