Linda Lavin

Linda Lavin was an American actress and singer. Known for her roles on stage and screen, she received several awards including three Drama Desk Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Obie Awards, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010. After acting as a child, Lavin joined the Compass Players in the late 1950s. She had a guest role role in Rhoda, and had a recurring role in Barney Miller. She gained fame for playing the title role of a waitress at a roadside diner in the CBS sitcom Alice, a role for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series and won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy. She later starred in NBC's sitcom Sean Saves the World and the CBS sitcom 9JKL and took recurring roles in the legal drama The Good Wife and the sitcom B Positive. On stage, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play playing a strong-willed mother in the Neil Simon play Broadway Bound. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_L...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)