Linda Lavin, the six-time Tony Award-winning actress, has handed away on the age of 87.
Her consultant confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that the Broadway star and TV actress died unexpectedly on Sunday, December 29, as a result of problems from not too long ago found lung most cancers.
The information of her loss of life got here as a shocker, as Lavin had been working as not too long ago as this month, selling her new Netflix collection, No Good Deed.
The late legend was additionally filming one of many lead roles within the upcoming Hulu comedy collection Mid-Century Modern.
The former youngster stage actor kicked off her Broadway profession within the Nineteen Sixties with It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman and Last of the Red Hot Lovers which earned her the primary of six Tony Award nominations in 1970.
After displaying off her appearing chops in Barney Miller, Lavin spent 9 seasons serving meals because the waitress Alice Hyatt on the hit CBS sitcom Alice.
Lavin’s movie credit embody Damn Yankees!, which marked her characteristic debut, The Ring, The Intern, and Being the Ricardos.
In her final public look, Lavin graced the purple carpet on the premiere of No Good Deed on December 4.
She is survived by Steve Bakunas, her husband of 19 years.
