Oscar Winners on the Small Screen

Winning an Academy Award used to mean you’d never have to stoop to doing television again. But nowadays, more than a dozen former Oscar winners are finding new dramatic challenges on the small screen. Click through to find out which award-winners you can watch at home every week.

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Cloris Leachman

Won For: Playing adulterous wife Ruth Popper in the steamy 1971 Texas drama “The Last Picture Show.”

Now She Plays: Demented grandmother Maw Maw on Fox’s blue-collar comedy “Raising Hope.”
Cloris Leachman

Won For: Playing adulterous wife Ruth Popper in the steamy 1971 Texas drama “The Last Picture Show.”

Now She Plays: Demented grandmother Maw Maw on Fox’s blue-collar comedy “Raising Hope.”