Linda Lavin was a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice.'
Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87.
The series bounced around the CBS schedule during its first two seasons but became a hit leading into “All in the Family” on Sunday nights in October 1977. It was among primetime’s top 10 series in four of the next five seasons. Variety magazine listed it among the all-time best workplace comedies. She went on to earn a Tony nomination in Simon's"Last of the Red Hot Lovers" in 1969 before winning 18 years later for another Simon play,"Broadway Bound."
Back on Broadway, Lavin later starred Paul Rudnick's comedy"The New Century," had a concert show called “Songs & Confessions of a One-Time Waitress” and earned a Tony nomination in Donald Margulies’ “Collected Stories.” The AP again raved about Lavin in “The Lyons," calling her"an absolute wonder to behold as Rita Lyons, a nag of a mother with a collection of firm beliefs and eye rolls, a matriarch who is both suffocating and keeping everyone at arm’s length."
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