Linda Lavin is an American singer and actress. She is known for playing the title character in the sitcom Alice and for her stage performances, both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. After acting as a child, Lavin joined the Compass Players in the late 1950s. She began acting on...
Singer, Actor, Television Director, Television producer, Teacher
Education
College of William & Mary
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Steve Bakunas (m. 2005), Kip Niven (m. 1982–1992), Ron Leibman (m. 1969–1981)
Parents
Lucille Lavin, David J. Lavin
Nicknames
Лавин, Линда
Awards
Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play
Nominations
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series, People's Choice Award for Favorite Actress in a New TV Series, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Childre...
Movies
The Intern, Manhattan Night, The Back-up Plan, A Short History of Decay, Wanderlust, See You in the Morning, The Muppets Take Manhattan, Lena: My 100 Children, The Morning After, I Want to Go Home, Like Mom, Like Me, Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden, Maricela, My Bakery in Brooklyn, Whi...
TV Shows
Sean Saves the World, Conrad Bloom, Room for Two, Alice
Star Sign
Libra
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Quote
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Bea Arthur is the only true artist of the 20th century.
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I discovered that the character of 'Alice' represented 80% of the working women in this country, the blue collar and pink collar women. Hundreds of women have come up to me and said, 'It was because of watching "Alice" that I could get through another day with the baby in a high chair. I knew if SHE could do it, I could do it. I could go back to school, I could get off welfare, I could change my life.'
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You must tap into your own fears and pains and anxieties. And you remember. Dreams come up and nightmares come up. Once you get the understanding of the feelings, you describe them with behavior. That's how I work. I don't speak for anyone else.
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Fact
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She has twice been replaced by Valerie Harper in a New York theater production, once Off-Broadway ("Death-Defying Acts") and once on Broadway ("The Tale of the Allergist's Wife").
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On Broadway, playing Granny in "Hollywood Arms" written by Carol Burnett and her daughter, the late Carrie Hamilton. [November 2002]
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Married actor/drummer Steve Bakunas in 2005 after they met during the 2002 run of the Broadway play "Hollywood Arms". They established a residence in Wilmington, North Carolina, and there converted a garage into the Red Barn Theatre which they co-run. She has appeared there in such productions as "Doubt," "Collected Stories," "Driving Miss Daisy" and "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife".
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Graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1959.
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Best remembered by the public for her starring role in Alice (1976).
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Won Broadway's 1987 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for "Broadway Bound." She was also nominated for Tonys three other times: in 1970, as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for "Last of the Red Hot Lovers;" in1998, as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for a revival of "The Diary of Anne Frank," and in 2001, as Best Actress (Play) for "The Tale of an Allergist's Wife."
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Teaches master classes at NYU's Undergraduate Performing Arts Division.
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Lavin's mother, Lucille Potter Lavin, was a coloratura soprano beside such singing notables as Risë Stevens and Paul Whiteman in concert, radio and TV.
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Awarded a 1987 Tony for lead actress in the play "Broadway Bound."
$2 Million
