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Linda Lavin, Tony Winner and Alice Star, Dead at 87
She won theater’s highest honor for 1987’s Broadway Bound.
Linda Lavin, a Tony-winning theater actress and star of the hit sitcom Alice, died at the age of 87. Lavin, who has consistently worked across the film, television, and theater stages since the 1960s, is perhaps best known for her leading role in Alice, which spanned nearly a decade after premiering on CBS in 1976: She portrayed a hardworking and good-humored diner waitress — often the voice of reason around her wackier counterparts — raising her son as a widow in Phoenix. Lavin remained a stable presence in television since the turn of the millennium, appearing in comedies such as B Positive, Santa Clarita Diet, and, earlier this year, Elsbeth.
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