Linda Lavin — finest recognized for her lead position within the Nineteen Seventies TV sitcom “Alice” — has died, TMZ has confirmed.
The actress handed away Sunday in Los Angeles from problems of lung most cancers with which she was just lately recognized, in response to 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 position of Alice Hyatt on the CBS present, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” based mostly on the Martin Scorsese-directed film a few widow who works as a waitress at Mel’s Diner in Phoenix, Arizona, to help her younger son.
The sitcom’s title was later shortened to “Alice” as Lavin’s character went on to change into an emblem for all working mothers, with the hit present operating its course and ending in 1985. For the position, 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 “Last of the Red Hot Lovers” and “Broadway Sure.” She was nominated for 6 Tony Awards, but only took home the trophy once for “Broadway Sure.”
Lavin was 87.
RIP
