The Biggest Career Comebacks from TV Actresses, Ranked

Cloris Leachman had already won an Oscar when she joined The Mary Tyler Moore Show as Phyllis, Mary’s snooty, nosy landlady. The role was such a hit that it got its own spinoff, Phyllis, in 1975. She also made movie history as Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein.

In the 2000s, she won two Emmys for playing Ida, the cranky grandmother on Malcolm in the Middle. Then, in 2008, she danced on Dancing with the Stars at 82, the oldest contestant up to that time. Winning Emmys in her 70s and dancing in her 80s? Legendary.