On the show "Alice," Lavin become a role model for working moms as Alice Hyatt, a widowed mother with a 12-year-old son working in a roadside diner outside Phoenix.

NEW YORK (AP) — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87.

NEW YORK — Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom “Alice,” has died. She was 87. Lavin died in Los ...

Lavin seemed to know from an early age that she was destined for life as an actress, moving to New York City after graduating ... a small recurring role in "Barney Miller." It was in 1976 that ...

She was chosen to star in a new CBS sitcom based on Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ... Lavin grew up in Portland, Maine, and moved to New York City after graduating from the College of William ...

The Hangover’s Zach Galifianakis voices Ron, a defective robot who is taken under the wing of lonely middle-schooler Barney (Jack ... woman both living in New York City when blind aliens with ...

But though JTT backed away from the spotlight to live his life, which included graduating ... Wilson recalled in a February 2021 New York Times op-Ed about the perils of early fame for girls. " ...