Broadway and TV star Linda Lavin, best known for her 1970s long-running sitcom Alice and her Tony Award-winning performance in Broadway Bound, died on Sunday at the age of 87.
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The news comes as a shock as Lavin has been working as recently as this month, promoting her new Netflix series No Good Deed and filming the upcoming Hulu comedy series “Mid-Century Modern,” on which she is one of the leads.
She died unexpectedly due to complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her PR representative told Deadline.
A former child stage actor, Lavin started her Broadway career in the 1960s, appearing in the musical “It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman” and the play “Last of the Red Hot Lovers,” which earned her the first of six Tony Award nominations in 1970.
Alice
broke ground in many ways during its 9-season run. In addition to being one of the first sitcoms to feature a low-income, working single mother, the show also touched on gay issues without the then-standard approach of making queer men swishy and effeminate. Check out this scene from the show’s first season in 1976.
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Lavin kept a steady pace in TV work right up to her passing with series regular appearances on comedy series Sean Saves the World, 9JKL and B Positive. In recent months, she guest starred on CBS’ Elsbeth and No Good Deed, and was a series regular on the upcoming Hulu comedy series Mid-Century Modern. According to reports, she shot her most recent episode just a couple of weeks ago. Rest well, Linda Lavin.
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