Actress Linda Lavin died unexpectedly in Los Angeles on Sunday, December 29, on the age of 87. The star of CBS sitcom Alice, she had not too long ago been identified with lung most cancers, Deadline reported.
Lavin was working as not too long ago as December 4, when she attended an occasion in Hollywood to advertise her new Netflix sequence No Good Deed. She had additionally been filming her upcoming Hulu comedy Mid-Century Fashionable.
Linda Lavin attends the premiere of Netflix’s “No Good Deed” on December 04, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Picture by Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs)
Lavin guest-starred on Barney Miller earlier than getting her personal TV sequence Alice, through which she performed the lead function of a waitress and widowed mother Alice Hyatt, who had a 12-year-old son and labored at a roadside diner close to Phoenix, Arizona. The present turned “Kiss my grits” right into a catchphrase and ran from 1976 to 1985. It additionally featured Lavin singing the theme music “There’s a New Lady in City.” The hit comedy was primarily based on the Martin Scorsese-directed film Alice Doesn’t Reside Right here Anymore, which gained an Oscar for its lead Ellen Burstyn.
ALICE, Linda Lavin, TV GUIDE cowl, October 23-29, 1976. TV Information/ Everett Assortment
Lavin, who was born in Portland, Maine, had enormous success on Broadway, incomes a Tony nominee for Final of the Pink-Scorching Lovers in 1969, earlier than profitable a Greatest Actress Tony 18 years later for Broadway Sure.