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Lynda Gravátt Dies: Broadway Actor, TV’s ‘The Hoop Life’ Star Was 77
Lynda Gravátt, a mainstay of the New York stage, a seminal figure in the Washington D.C. theater community and a familiar presence on television through appearances in the Law & Order franchise shows, The Good Wife and the 1999 Showtime series The Hoop Life, died February 23 at a hospital in New Jersey. She was […]
Lynda Gravátt, a mainstay of the New York stage, a seminal figure in the Washington D.C. theater community and a familiar presence on television through appearances in the Law & Order franchise shows, The Good Wife and the 1999 Showtime series The Hoop Life, died February 23 at a hospital in New Jersey. Returning to New York City, Gravátt became a staple of the Off Broadway scene, where her resume would come to include John Henry Redwood’s The Old Settler, Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, August Wilson’s King Hedley II, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes and Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew. She returned to Broadway in 2006 in the original production of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt, and in 2008 understudied the role of Big Mama for Phylicia Rashad in a revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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