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Linda Lavin, Tony-winning actor who found fame as TV’s Alice, dies aged 87
Lavin became working-class icon as waitress in TV sitcom and enjoyed long and celebrated career on stage and screen
She was chosen to star in a new CBS sitcom based on Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, the Martin Scorsese-directed film that won Ellen Burstyn an Oscar for playing the title waitress. Back on Broadway, Lavin later starred in 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’s Collected Stories. Photograph: Matt Baron/Rex/ShutterstockMichael Kuchwara of the AP gave Lavin a rave in Collected Stories, writing that she “gives one of those complete, nuanced performances, capturing the woman’s intellectual vigor, her wry sense of humor and her increasing physical frailty with astonishing fidelity.
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