“I thought getting attention was the same thing as getting love,” the actress Linda Lavin told me in a hushed whisper in 2012, recalling performing for her family as a child, during one of our ...

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who reached her greatest fame on television as the titular waitress of the diner-set sitcom “Alice,” a role that came to symbolize the working ...

The actress Linda Lavin spent years playing and celebrating working women. She died Sunday at 87 years old. NPR's Isabella Gomez Sarmiento has this appreciation. ISABELLA GOMEZ SARMIENTO ...

William & Mary alumna and Tony Award-winning stage actress and television star Linda Lavin died Sunday in Los Angeles from complications involving recently discovered lung cancer. She was 87.

Linda Lavin, the celebrated stage and television actress known for her iconic role in the sitcom 'Alice' passed away on December 29 at the age of 87. Linda Lavin, the celebrated stage and ...

Linda Lavin, the Tony- and Golden Globe-winning actor best known as a wisecracking waitress with a heart of gold on the hit 1970s sitcom "Alice," has died at 87. She passed away "unexpectedly" on ...

If you needed to pay a stranger to call you, you could hardly have done better than a voice like Linda Lavin’s. That was the premise of a melancholy comedy in which the six-time Tony nominee ...