Linda Lavin
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- ComedyHow to Be a Latin Lover
- ComedyAlice
- DramaLena: My 100 Children
- ComedyA Short History of Decay
- CrimeNaked Singularity
- CrimeManhattan Night
- DramaBeing the Ricardos
- ComedyThe Back-Up Plan
- DramaSee You in the Morning
- ComedyBakery in Brooklyn
- ComedyThe Intern
- AdventureThe Muppets Take Manhattan
- ComedyWanderlust
- showRoom for Two
- DramaAnother Woman's Child
- DramaA Matter of Life and Death
- movieMaricela
- DramaThe $5.20 an Hour Dream
- MusicLinda in Wonderland
- DramaLike Mom, Like Me
- DramaA Place to Call Home
- DramaStolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden
- AnimationWhitewash
- ComedyI Want to Go Home
- DramaBest Friends for Life
- DramaFor the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal
- Comedy9JKL
- ComedyGirls Weekend
- DramaThe Morning After
- DramaAnother Woman's Child
- ComedyB Positive
- ComedySean Saves the World
- ComedyConrad Bloom
- ComedyThe Great American Dream Machine
- ComedyThe Sunset Gang
- DramaThe Ring
- ComedyDamn Yankees
- DramaA Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story
- DramaA Place to Call Home
- DocumentaryBetty White: First Lady of Television
- DocumentaryThe Lady in Question Is Charles Busch
- DocumentaryThe Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
- MusicTake Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration
- DocumentaryOn Broadway
- MusicNight Of 100 Stars III
- ComedyNight of 100 Stars
- ComedyNight of 100 Stars II
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Linda Lavin
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Linda Lavin (born October 15, 1937) is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing the title character in the sitcom Alice and for her stage performances, both on and off-Broadway.
After acting as a child, Lavin joined the Compass Players in the late 1950s. She began appearing on Broadway in the 1960s, earning notice in It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman in 1966 and receiving her first Tony Award nomination for Last of the Red Hot Lovers in 1970. She moved to Hollywood in 1973 and began to work on television, making recurring appearances on the sitcom Barney Miller before landing the title role on the hit comedy Alice, which ran from 1976 to 1985. She appeared in many telefilms and later she appeared in other TV works. She has also played roles in several feature films.
In 1987, she returned to Broadway, starring in Broadway Bound (winning a Tony Award), Gypsy (1990), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993), The Diary of Anne Frank (1997–1998) and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2000–2001), among others. In 2010, she appeared as Ruth Steiner in Collected Stories, garnering her fifth Tony nomination. She starred in NBC's short-lived sitcom Sean Saves the World as Lorna and the CBS sitcom 9JKL. She also starred in the CBS sitcom B Positive.
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- Place of Birth
- Portland, Maine, USA
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