Linda Lavin (born October 15, 1937) is an American singer and actress. She is best known for playing the title character in the sitcom Alice and for her Broadway performances.
Born in Portland, Maine to musically-talented parents, Lavin has been onstage since the age of 5. Upon her graduation from the College of William and Mary, she had already received her Actors' Equity Association card. Before her career in stage, began she worked maintenance...
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Linda Lavin (born October 15, 1937) is an American singer and actress. She is best known for playing the title character in the sitcom Alice and for her Broadway performances.
Born in Portland, Maine to musically-talented parents, Lavin has been onstage since the age of 5. Upon her graduation from the College of William and Mary, she had already received her Actors' Equity Association card. Before her career in stage, began she worked maintenance at The Velvet Touch in Flint, Michigan. She was a member of the Compass Players in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, Lavin made a name for herself in New York City on Broadway and appeared on the (both 1966) cast recordings of The Mad Show (on which her performance of Stephen Sondheim's "The Boy From..." gained note) and "It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman" (from which one of her numbers, "You've Got Possibilities," was the album's best-received song and, years later, was featured on a Pillsbury commercial).
In 1967, Lavin made an...
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