Linda Lavin, an 87-year-old comedy actress and Tony Award-winning Broadway star, passed away on Sunday, December 29.
According to Deadline, the well-liked Broadway star and TV actress passed away suddenly from complications resulting from newly detected lung cancer.
Lavin was still employed as recently as this month, so the news is unexpected. Lavin was well-known for her prestigious and award-winning acting.
Career in both television and Broadway. Her performance in the 1976 comedy Alice is perhaps the reason she is most well-known.
She received praise and an Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of the title character spanning nine seasons.
She then starred in Broadway Bound, a play from 1986, for which she received a Tony Award. Lavin’s career in showbiz began when she was a young theatrical actress.
She later began performing on Broadway in the 1960s, when she made an appearance in the musical It’s a Bird.A plane, that is.In addition to the play Last of the Red Hot Lovers, it’s Superman.
She was nominated for her first of six Tony Awards in 1970 for her performance on the later Broadway stage.
Later, in 1987, she won her first prize for her role in Broadway Bound. Her performance in The Lyons earned her the most recent Tony nomination in 2012.
She has continued to alternate between Broadway and Hollywood since her breakout performance. From 1975 to 1976, Lavin played a roadside cafe waitress in television shows like Barney Miller.
In the 1976 comedy series Alice, which aired on CBS for nine seasons and 202 episodes, she similarly played a young mother who had lost her spouse.
She has had additional significant television appearances in the last ten years, including series regulars on CBS’s 9JKL and B Positive and the NBC comedy series Sean Saves the World.
This year, she kept herself occupied by working on the new Hulu series Mid-Century Modern, taking on a recurring part on Netflix’s No Good Deed, and guest starring on CBS’s Elsbeth.
According to Deadline, she just shot her most recent episode for the comedy series a few weeks ago.
Just earlier this month, on December 4, she walked the red carpet for the Hollywood premiere of No Good Deed, marking her last public appearance.
