1. Linda Lavin was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010.
45 Facts About Linda Lavin
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Linda Lavin made her television debut in Rhoda and had a recurring role in Barney Miller.
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Linda Lavin later starred in NBC's sitcom Sean Saves the World and the CBS sitcom 9JKL and took recurring roles in the legal drama The Good Wife and the sitcom B Positive.
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Linda Lavin was Tony-nominated for her roles in Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Collected Stories, and The Lyons.
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Linda Lavin made her film debut in The Muppets Take Manhattan, and later had roles in I Want to Go Home, See You in the Morning and Being the Ricardos.
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Linda Lavin was born in Portland, Maine, the younger daughter of David Joseph Linda Lavin, a businessman, and Lucille Dorothy, an opera singer.
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The Linda Lavin family were active members of the local Jewish community.
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Linda Lavin's family was musically talented, and Lavin was on stage from the age of five.
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Linda Lavin studied acting at HB Studio in New York City.
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Linda Lavin was a member of the Compass Players in the late 1950s.
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Linda Lavin began her career with Broadway appearances in the musical A Family Affair and plays such as The Riot Act and Carl Reiner's Something Different.
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Linda Lavin won the Theatre World Award for Wet Paint and a Drama Desk Award for Little Murders.
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Linda Lavin "arrived at showbiz stardom with a featured role" in the musical It's a Bird.
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Linda Lavin received her first Tony Award nomination in 1970, for her role in the Neil Simon play Last of the Red Hot Lovers.
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In 1984, Linda Lavin played the character of "The Mother" in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author in a production directed by Robert Brustein at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Linda Lavin, whose touching performance is of the same high integrity as the writing, could stay in the role forever.
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Linda Lavin then starred on Broadway in Gypsy as Mama Rose Hovick, replacing Tyne Daly in July 1990.
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In 1995 she appeared in the Off-Broadway Death-Defying Acts, which consists of three one-act plays; Linda Lavin performed in the Elaine May and Woody Allen plays.
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Linda Lavin was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and won an Obie Award and the Lucille Lortel Award.
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Linda Lavin played Marjorie in The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, co-starring Tony Roberts and Michele Lee, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, Leading Actress in a Play, and Drama Desk Award, and "nanny" for Helen in Hollywood Arms in Chicago and on Broadway in 2002.
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In 2010, Linda Lavin appeared as Ruth Steiner in a Broadway revival of the play Collected Stories opposite Sarah Paulson as her student, reprising her role for a PBS production of the play, and received a fifth Tony nomination for the role.
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Linda Lavin appeared in the new play by Jon Robin Baitz, Other Desert Cities, Off-Broadway at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, beginning in previews in December 2010, closing February 27,2011.
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Linda Lavin was featured in the Kennedy Center production of the musical Follies, from May 2011 to June 2011, as Hattie Walker.
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Linda Lavin appeared in the premiere of the Nicky Silver play The Lyons at the Off-Broadway Vineyard Theatre, beginning in September 2011, through November 11.
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Linda Lavin appeared in the Nicky Silver play Too Much Sun, which opened Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre on May 18,2014.
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Linda Lavin tuned so precisely into the writer's wavelength that script and performance become a marriage of true minds.
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In January 2017, Linda Lavin appeared in New York City Opera's production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide at the Rose Theatre at Lincoln Center in the role of The Old Lady.
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Linda Lavin performed with the Wilmington Symphony in March 2012.
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Linda Lavin's recording Possibilities was released by Ghostlight Records in 2012.
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In 1967, Linda Lavin made an appearance as Gloria Thorpe in a television version of the baseball musical Damn Yankees with Phil Silvers.
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In 1969, Linda Lavin married actor Ron Leibman, and by 1973, the couple had moved to Hollywood, California.
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Linda Lavin left Barney Miller to star in the lead role in Alice, which was a sitcom success that ran from 1976 to 1985 on the CBS network.
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Linda Lavin portrayed Alice Hyatt, a waitress and aspiring singer, the character that Burstyn had played.
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Linda Lavin performed the series' theme song, "There's a New Girl in Town," which was written by David Shire and Alan and Marilyn Bergman and was updated for each of the first six seasons.
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Linda Lavin played a dual role in Alice, as Debbie Walden, the wizened and former landlady of the character Vera Louise Gorman-Novak.
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Linda Lavin acted in two sitcoms, Room for Two and 1998's Conrad Bloom.
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Linda Lavin appeared in many other telefilms between 1967 and 1998, including: Sadbird, The Morning After, Jerry, Like Mom, Like Me, The $5.20 an Hour Dream, Another Woman's Child, Maricela, Lena: My 100 Children, Whitewash, A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story, Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden, For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal, The Ring, and Best Friends for Life.
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Linda Lavin produced and starred in A Matter of Life and Death, the 1981 telefilm based on the work of nurse thanatologist Joy Ufema.
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Linda Lavin provided the voice of the Mother Vulture in the animated series Courage the Cowardly Dog for the episode "Watch The Birdies".
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Linda Lavin played Judy Roberts in the CBS sitcom 9JKL alongside Mark Feuerstein and Elliott Gould.
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Linda Lavin appeared in the CBS comedy B Positive, which aired from 2020 to 2022, in a recurring role as Norma, one of the senior citizens at a local retirement home.
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Linda Lavin made her feature film debut in The Muppets Take Manhattan.
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Linda Lavin's foundation has created a theater program called Girl Friends, whose purpose is to raise the self-esteem of at-risk teenage girls of the inner city.
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In September 2012, Linda Lavin announced that she intended to sell her home in Wilmington and return to New York City.
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Linda Lavin died from cardiopulmonary arrest from complications from cancer in Los Angeles, on December 29,2024, aged 87.