Biography
Linda Lavin (1937–2024) was an American actress and singer. She trained at the College of William & Mary and began her career in the late 1950s with the Compass Players before making her Broadway debut in the 1960s.
She gained prominence on stage with roles in It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman (1966) and Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1970), and won a Tony Award for Broadway Bound (1987). On television she starred as the title character in the sitcom Alice (1976–1985). Her film credits include The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) and Being the Ricardos (2021), in which she played Older Madelyn Pugh.
Lavin received further Tony nominations for The Diary of Anne Frank (1998), The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2001) and Collected Stories (2010). She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010.
