Linda Lavin — finest recognized for her lead function within the Nineteen Seventies TV sitcom “Alice” — has died, TMZ has confirmed.
The actress handed away Sunday in Los Angeles from issues of lung most cancers with which she was lately identified, in accordance with her reps.
Lavin started her profession within the late ’60s on Broadway earlier than heading west within the ’70s to Hollywood.
In 1976, Lavin landed the title function of Alice Hyatt on the CBS present, “Alice Doesn’t Dwell Right here Anymore,” primarily based on the Martin Scorsese-directed film a few widow who works as a waitress at Mel’s Diner in Phoenix, Arizona, to assist her younger son.
The sitcom’s title was later shortened to “Alice” as Lavin’s character went on to grow to be an emblem for all working mothers, with the hit present operating its course and ending in 1985. For the function, Lavin snagged two Golden Globe awards and was nominated for an Emmy.
Lavin additionally starred in one other fashionable ’70s sitcom — “Barney Miller” — in addition to a number of Neil Simon Broadway performs, particularly “Final of the Purple Scorching Lovers” and “Broadway Certain.” She was nominated for six Tony Awards, however solely took house the trophy as soon as for “Broadway Certain.”
Lavin was 87.
RIP
