Linda Lavin, Tony-Winning Broadway Actor Who Starred in Sitcom ‘Alice,’ Dies at 87

Linda Lavin, Tony-Winning Broadway Actor Who Starred in Sitcom ‘Alice,’ Dies at 87
Linda Lavin arrives at the 33rd annual Producers Guild Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 19, 2022. Chris Pizzello/AP Photo
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NEW YORK—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 complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her representative, Bill Veloric, told The Associated Press in an email.