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. Lavin died in Los Angeles on Sunday of ...
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. The title was ...
Lavin died due to complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her rep told Eyewitness News. Starting in 1976, Lavin famously starred in "Alice" for nine seasons, earning an Emmy nomination ...