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Linda Lavin
Lavin in 1965
Born(1937-10-15)October 15, 1937
Portland, Maine, U.S.
DiedDecember 29, 2024(2024-12-29) (aged 87)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationCollege of William & Mary
HB Studio
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
Years active1958–2024
Known forAlice
Broadway Bound
Barney Miller
Spouses
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(m. 1969; div. 1981)​
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(m. 1982; div. 1992)​
Steve Bakunas
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(m. 2005)​
AwardsAmerican Theater Hall of Fame

Linda Lavin (October 15, 1937 – December 29, 2024) 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 made her television debut in Rhoda and had a recurring role in Barney Miller (1975–1976). She gained notoriety for playing the title role of a waitress at a roadside diner in the CBS sitcom Alice (1976–1985), 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 (2014–2015) and the sitcom B Positive (2020–2022).

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 (1987). She was Tony-nominated for her roles in Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1970), The Diary of Anne Frank (1998), The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2001), Collected Stories (2010), and The Lyons (2012). She is also known for acting in It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman (1966), On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1967), Gypsy (1990), The Sisters Rosensweig (1993), and Follies (2011). She made her film debut in Damn Yankees! (1967) and later had roles in The Morning After (1974), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), I Want to Go Home (1989), and Being the Ricardos (2021).

Early life and career

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Lavin was born in Portland, Maine, the daughter of David Joseph Lavin, a businessman, and Lucille Dorothy (née Potter), an opera singer.[1][2][3] The Lavin family were active members of the local Jewish community.[4] Both sets of grandparents, Simon and Jessie Lavin and Harry and Esther Potter, emigrated from Russia.[5] Her family was musically talented, and Lavin was on stage from the age of five.[1] She attended Waynflete School[6] and Deering High School before enrolling in the College of William & Mary.[1] While at William and Mary, she performed with the William and Mary Theater in many productions directed by long-time Professor Howard Scammon. In the summer of 1958, she played one of the leads in The Common Glory,[7] an outdoor drama written by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Paul Green and staged at an amphitheater on campus. Upon her graduation from William and Mary,[4] she had already received her Actors' Equity Association card. She was a member of the Compass Players in the late 1950s.[8] She studied acting at HB Studio in New York City.[9] By the early 1960s, Lavin had appeared in several Broadway shows and appeared on the 1966 cast recordings of The Mad Show performing Stephen Sondheim's "The Boy From...". From It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman, one of her numbers, "You've Got Possibilities", was the album's best-received song and was called "The one memorable song...flirty, syncopated" by the Dallas Observer.[10]

Career

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Television and film

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In 1967, Lavin made an appearance as Gloria Thorpe in a television version of the baseball musical Damn Yankees with Phil Silvers.[11] In 1969, Lavin married actor Ron Leibman,[12] and by 1973, the couple had moved to Hollywood, California. After various guest appearances on episodic television series such as The Nurses, Rhoda, Harry O, and Kaz, Lavin landed a recurring role as Detective Janice Wentworth on Barney Miller during the first and second seasons (1975–1976).[13]

Beth Howland as Vera, Linda Lavin as Alice, and Polly Holliday as Flo on Alice (1976)

She left Barney Miller to star in the lead role in Alice, which was a sitcom success that ran from 1976 to 1985 thru the CBS network. The series was based on the Martin Scorsese–directed Ellen Burstyn film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Lavin portrayed Alice Hyatt, a waitress and singer, the character that Burstyn had played. Lavin performed the series' theme song, "There's a New Girl in Town," which was written by David Shire and Alan and Marilyn Bergman and was updated for each of the first six seasons. During the series' nine-season run, Lavin won two Golden Globe Awards and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination,[14] and gained experience directing, especially during the later seasons. Lavin also played a dual role in Alice, as Debbie Walden, the wizened and former landlady of the character Vera Louise Gorman-Novak.[15] Lavin also made numerous television appearances outside of Alice, including hosting her own holiday special for CBS, Linda in Wonderland (1980). She acted in two sitcoms, Room for Two (1992–93)[15] and 1998's Conrad Bloom.[16] In Room for Two, she played a mother who moved in with her daughter, played by Patricia Heaton, who has a show on a local television station. The daughter gives Lavin's character her own segment, called "Just a Thought", at the end of her program.[17]

She made numerous television guest appearances, including roles on The Muppet Show (1979), Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The O.C., Touched by an Angel (1999), and HBO's The Sopranos (2002).

She also appeared in many telefilms between 1967 and 1998, including: Damn Yankees!, Sadbird, The Morning After, Jerry, Like Mom, Like Me, The $5.20 an Hour Dream, Another Woman's Child, Maricela, Lena: My 100 Children, Whitewash, A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story, Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden, For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal, The Ring, and Best Friends for Life. Lavin produced and starred in A Matter of Life and Death, the 1981 telefilm based on the work of nurse thanatologist Joy Ufema.[18] She directed the 1990 telefilm Flour Babies.[15]

Lavin made her feature film debut in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984).[19] Her other feature film appearances include See You in the Morning, starring Jeff Bridges; Alain Resnais's I Want to Go Home, opposite Gérard Depardieu (both 1989); and The Back-up Plan (2010).[20]

Lavin also provided the voice of the Mother Vulture in the animated series Courage the Cowardly Dog for the episode "Watch The Birdies".

After working in theater for many years, Lavin was cast in the NBC television sitcom Sean Saves the World (2013–14) playing Sean Hayes' pushy, meddling mother Lorna. The Los Angeles Times interviewer noted: "A highlight of the show is the wonderful chemistry between Lavin and Hayes, who exchange repartee and quips with breezy ease. And the cast seems smitten with her."[21]

In 2015, Lavin guest starred as a judge approached to stop an execution in the episode of Bones titled "The Verdict in the Victims."[22][23] Actress Emily Deschanel said "Lavin was particularly fun to have on" the show.[24]

Lavin played Judy Roberts in the CBS sitcom 9JKL (2017–18) alongside Mark Feuerstein and Elliott Gould. Lavin caught up with Portland Magazine in its Winterguide 2018 issue about her return to CBS stating:

Like Alice, 9JKL deals with family relationships–except it's a more sophisticated and edgier show. The people are more privileged and on a higher economic level than Alice. I love to go to work every day. I feel very grateful and fortunate for this role, the quality of work and good people at this stage of my life. Fun and creative are the operative words for me. I'm very committed to participating in projects where I can bring and exchange those qualities with like-minded people.[25]

In 2019, Lavin joined the cast of the Netflix comedy/horror Santa Clarita Diet, starring Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant.[26]

In 2020, Lavin performed the song "The Boy From..." from The Mad Show in Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration.[27][28][29] Lavin appeared in the CBS comedy B Positive, which aired from 2020 to 2022, in a recurring role as Norma, one of the senior citizens at a local retirement home.

Lavin in 1977

In June 2024, it was announced that Max Mutchnick and David Kohan had created a Golden Girls–like TV series with Matt Bomer cast as a Betty White's character type and Nathan Lane as Bunny Schneiderman, a Bea Arthur's type character. Lavin was set to play Lane's mother, Sybil Schneiderman. The series has been picked up by Hulu streaming network and is set in Palm Springs with the working title Mid-Century Modern.[30][31][32] At the time of her death, ten of thirteen episodes of the series were filmed, production is currently on hiatus due to her death.[33]

Theater

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In 1960 Lavin appeared at the East 74th Street Theater in George Gershwin's Oh, Kay!, with Penny Fuller and Marti Stevens.[34][35][36]

Lavin began her career with Broadway appearances in the musical A Family Affair (1962)[37] and plays such as The Riot Act (1963)[38] and Carl Reiner's Something Different (1967).[39] In his New York Times review of John Guare's two one-act plays, Cop-Out (1969), Clive Barnes wrote: "Miss Lavin...carries versatility almost to the point of paranoia, and camps up a storm."[40]

Lavin also appeared in numerous Off-Broadway productions, including the revue Wet Paint (1965),[41] the musical The Mad Show (1966)[42] (in which she introduced the cabaret standard "The Boy From...", written by Stephen Sondheim and Mary Rodgers),[43] and Little Murders (1969). Lavin won the Theatre World Award for Wet Paint[44] and a Drama Desk Award for Little Murders.[45][46] In 1975, she appeared in the Shakespeare in the Park production of The Comedy of Errors at the Delacorte Theater.

She "arrived at showbiz stardom with a featured role" in the musical It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman (1966).[47][48] She received her first Tony Award nomination in 1970, for her role in the Neil Simon play Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1969). Clive Barnes, in his review for The New York Times, wrote: "Linda Lavin, eyebrows, [sic] flaunting like telegraphed messages, mouth twitching and pouting, voice as dry as thunder and with a cough like electric static, is beautiful as Elaine, the sex cat feeling coolly kittenish and looking for a safe tin roof."[38][49] Lavin's last Broadway credit before she moved to Hollywood was in Paul Sills' Story Theatre in 1971.[50]

In 1984, Lavin played the character of "The Mother" in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author in a production directed by Robert Brustein at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[51]

After more than a decade away, Lavin returned to the Broadway stage in 1987, winning a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play[52] and her second Drama Desk Award for her role as Kate in Simon's play Broadway Bound. In his review in The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote: "One only wishes that Ms. Lavin, whose touching performance is of the same high integrity as the writing, could stay in the role forever."[53] Theatre critic Charles McNulty wrote of her performance that it "is widely considered one of the most memorable in contemporary Broadway history, winning not just awards but praise approaching the level of myth. The theater critic Gordon Rogoff, extolling 'the power available only to an actor at the height of her own command of detail,' went so far as to describe Lavin's portrayal as 'one of those textbook lessons in great acting...' "[54]

Lavin in 2014

She then starred on Broadway in Gypsy as Mama Rose Hovick, replacing Tyne Daly in July 1990.[55] June Havoc saw Lavin's performance in Gypsy and sent Lavin a photo of Havoc's mother, the real Rose Hovick, with a note of appreciation for Lavin's portrayal of the character.[56]

Her subsequent Broadway roles included The Sisters Rosensweig, as a replacement Gorgeous Teitelbaum starting in September 1993[57] and Mrs. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank (1997–1998), opposite Natalie Portman, for which she garnered a Tony nomination as Featured Actress in a Play.[50][58] In 1995 she appeared in the Off-Broadway Death-Defying Acts, which consists of three one-act plays; Lavin performed in the Elaine May (Hotline) and Woody Allen plays (Central Park West).[59] She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award (Outstanding Actress – Play)[60] and won an Obie Award (Performance)[61] and the Lucille Lortel Award. She also directed theater during this period.

She played Marjorie in The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (2000–2001), co-starring Tony Roberts and Michele Lee, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, Leading Actress in a Play, and Drama Desk Award,[62] and "nanny" for Helen (young Carol Burnett, played by Sara Niemietz and Donna Lynne Champlin) in Hollywood Arms in Chicago and on Broadway in 2002.[63]

In 2010, Lavin appeared as Ruth Steiner in a Broadway revival of the play Collected Stories,[64] reprising her role for a PBS production of the play,[65] and received a fifth Tony nomination for the role. She appeared in the new play by Jon Robin Baitz, Other Desert Cities, Off-Broadway at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater (Lincoln Center) beginning in previews in December 2010, closing February 27, 2011.[66] Lavin was featured in the Kennedy Center (Washington, DC) production of the musical Follies, from May 2011 to June 2011, as Hattie Walker.[67]

She appeared in the premiere of the Nicky Silver play The Lyons at the Off-Broadway Vineyard Theatre, beginning in September 2011, through November 11.[68] Ben Brantley, The New York Times reviewer, commented: "Watching Ms. Lavin, I found myself thinking of Nora from Ibsen's Doll's House – well, a pursed-lipped, lemony-sour, older Nora in pseudo-Chanel, one who's never at a loss for what to say and when to say it. Rita may be a little behind schedule in discovering herself, but no one can fault the hair-trigger timing of the actress playing her or the surprising dimensions she finds within one-liners."[69] She reprised her role in the Broadway production, which opened at the Cort Theatre on April 23, 2012, and closed on July 1, 2012.[70][71]

Lavin appeared in the new Nicky Silver play Too Much Sun, which opened Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre on May 18, 2014. Ben Brantley, in his review for The New York Times wrote: "And it's an unconditional treat to witness an actress like Ms. Lavin tuned so precisely into the writer's wavelength that script and performance become a marriage of true minds."[72]

Lavin appeared in 2015/16 on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in a Manhattan Theatre Club production of Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair.[73]

In January 2017, Lavin appeared in New York City Opera's production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide at the Rose Theatre at Lincoln Center in the role of The Old Lady.[74]

In 2020, Lavin performed "The Boy From..." as part of Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration.[75][76] Writing in The New York Times, critic Ben Brantley called her performance of the song "deliciously undersold," and noted that she had introduced it 54 years earlier.[77]

Cabaret and recording

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Lavin appeared in cabaret and concert performances.[78] In 2005 she appeared at the Empire Plush Room in San Francisco, accompanied by Billy Stritch[79] and her husband, Steve Bakunas. The Talkin' Broadway reviewer summed up her performance: "Linda Lavin is funny, warm and full of personality."[80] In April 2006 she performed at Birdland (New York) "with her critically acclaimed cabaret act The Song Remembers When", with Billy Stritch.[81] She performed with the Wilmington Symphony (Wilmington, North Carolina) in March 2012.[82]

Her recording Possibilities was released by Ghostlight Records in 2012. Steven Suskin wrote: "There is still that sweet, friendly sound of long ago (and 'sweet' and 'friendly' are not words you'd use to describe Lavin-the-actress)."[83]

Personal life

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Lavin and her husband Steve Bakunas at the Kennedy Center, 2011

Lavin was married three times. Her first marriage to Ron Leibman ended in divorce in 1981. Her second marriage, to Kip Niven, whom she met on the set of Alice, ended in a bitter divorce in 1992.[84] While Lavin had no biological children, she was the stepmother of Jim and Kate Niven, the children of her second husband, and played an active role in their lives and also in the lives of her grandchildren, Grayson, Talen, Toby, Zeke, Scout, Riley, and Wyatt. She was also the great-grandmother of Zion.[85] She then married the love of her life, Steve Bakunas. The couple resided in Wilmington, North Carolina,[67] where they were committed community members who were working together to rehabilitate impoverished neighborhoods including renovating many homes, donating a park to the city and creating a community theater, the Red Barn Studio. In 1997, Lavin founded The Linda Lavin Arts Foundation in Wilmington, "to promote and foster the advancement of the performing and visual arts, with special emphasis on arts in education. Her foundation has created a theater program called Girl Friends, whose purpose is to raise the self-esteem of at-risk teenage girls of the inner city."[20]

Both of her former husbands, Niven and Leibman, died in 2019, as did Alice co-stars Philip McKeon and Charles Levin.

In Wilmington, she was a stage director. One of her directorial credits was a 1998 production of William Shakespeare's As You Like It, updated to a Brazilian jazz style. In both Wilmington and New York she taught master classes in acting and singing.[20]

In September 2012, Lavin announced that she intended to sell her home in Wilmington and return to New York City.[86] Lavin and Bakunas lived in New York City from circa 2013–2014 on.[87] In July 2016, the Luxury Living website posted Lavin's Central Park South apartment for sale at $1.25 million.

Death

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Lavin died from complications of lung cancer in Los Angeles, on December 29, 2024, at the age of 87.[88][89]

Acting credits

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
1967 Damn Yankees! Gloria Thorpe
1974 The Morning After Toni
1978 Like Mom, Like Me Althea Gruen
1980 The $5.20 an Hour Dream Ellen Lissick
1981 A Matter of Life and Death Nurse Joy Ufema
1983 Another Woman's Child Terry DeBray
1984 The Muppets Take Manhattan Kermit's Doctor
1986 Maricela Mrs. Gannett
1987 A Place to Call Home Liz Gavin
1987 Lena: My 100 Children Lena Kuchler-Silberman
1989 See You in the Morning Aunt Sidney
1989 I Want to Go Home Lena Apthrop
1995 A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story Virginia Funicello
1996 Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden Earline
1996 The Ring Ruth Liebman
1996 For the Future: The Irvine Fertility Scandal Marilyn Killane
1998 Best Friends for Life Sarah "Coop" Cooper
2002 Collected Stories Ruth Steiner
2010 The Back-up Plan Nana
2012 Wanderlust Shari
2013 A Short History of Decay Sandy Fisher
2015 The Intern Patty
2016 Manhattan Night Norma Segal
2016 Bakery in Brooklyn Isabelle
2017 How to Be a Latin Lover Millicent Dupont
2019 Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase Flora
2021 Naked Singularity Judge Cymbeline
2021 Being the Ricardos Older Madelyn Pugh
2022 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Barb (voice)
2025 One Big Happy Family Lenore Post-production, posthumous release

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1974 Rhoda Linda Monroe Episode: "The Shower"
1975 Harry O Alice Episode: "Group Terror"
1975–1976 Barney Miller Det. Janice Wentworth Recurring role, 5 episodes
1976 Phyllis Margaret Gates Episode: "Widows, Merry and Otherwise"
1976–1985 Alice Alice Hyatt Main role, 202 episodes
1977 Family Annie Laurie Episode: "Annie Laurie"
1978 The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour Herself Episode #1.3
1979 Kaz Helen 'Frenchy' Russo Episode: "A Fool for a Client"
1979 The Mary Tyler Moore Hour Herself Episode #1.9
1979 The Muppet Show Herself Episode: "Linda Lavin"
1980 Linda in Wonderland Herself TV special
1982 Lily for President? Alice Hyatt TV special
1992–1993 Room for Two Edie Kurland Main role, 26 episodes
1994 Whitewash Mrs. Steunberg (voice) TV special
1998 Conrad Bloom Florie Bloom Main role, 13 episodes
1999 Touched by an Angel Amanda Randolph Episode: "Jagged Edges"
2002 The Sopranos Dr. Wendi Kobler Episode: "No Show"
2002 Courage the Cowardly Dog Mama Bird (voice) Episode: "Watch the Birdies"
2002 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Ursula Sussman Episode: "Shandeh"
2004–2005 The O.C. Sophie Cohen 3 episodes
2013, 2023 Bob's Burgers Helen / Gertie (voice) Episodes: "It Snakes a Village", "Radio No You Didn't"
2013–2014 Sean Saves the World Lorna Harrison Main role, 15 episodes
2014–2015 The Good Wife Joy Grubick 3 episodes
2015 Bones Judge Michael Episode: "The Verdict in the Victims"
2016 Mom Phyllis 2 episodes
2017–2018 9JKL Judy Roberts Main role, 16 episodes
2018 Madam Secretary June O'Callaghan Episode: "E Pluribus Unum"
2019 Santa Clarita Diet Jean Recurring role, 4 episodes
2019 Brockmire Lorraine Episode: "Banned for Life"
2020 Yvette Slosch, Agent Yvette Slosch Main role, 13 episodes
2020 Room 104 Enid Episode: "No Dice"
2020–2022 B Positive Norma Goldman Recurring and main role, 32 episodes
2024 Elsbeth Gloria Blecher Episode: "A Classic New York Character"
2024 No Good Deed Phyllis Adelman 3 episodes
2025 Mid-Century Modern Sybil Schneiderman[90] Upcoming series, main role, posthumous release

Theater

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Year Title Role
1962 A Family Affair Various
1963 The Riot Act Barbara
1964–1965 Wet Paint Performer
1966 It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman Sydney
1966 The Mad Show Performer
1967 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Daisy Gamble, Melinda Welles
1967 Something Different Beth Nemerov
1967 Little Murders Patsy Newquist
1969 Cop-Out Performer
1969–1970 Last of the Red Hot Lovers Elaine Navazio
1970 Paul Sills' Story Theater Various
1973 The Enemy is Dead Leah
1974 Rich and Famous Performer
1986–1987 Broadway Bound Kate
1990 Gypsy Rose Thompson Hovick
1993 The Sisters Rosensweig Gorgeous Teitelbaum
1995 Death Defying Acts Dorothy/Carol
1996 Cakewalk Lillian Hellman
1998 The Diary of Anne Frank Mrs. Van Daan
2000–2001 The Tale of the Allergist's Wife Marjorie
2002 Hollywood Arms Nanny
2004 Finishing the Picture Flora Fassinger
2008 The New Century Helene Nadler
2010 Collected Stories Ruth Steiner
2011 Follies Hattie Walker
2011–2012 The Lyons Rita Lyons
2014 Too Much Sun Audrey Langham
2016 Our Mother's Brief Affair Anna
2022 You Will Get Sick #2

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2010 American Theater Hall of Fame — Inducted [91]
2015 Critics' Choice Television Awards Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series The Good Wife Nominated [92]
1990 Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Children's Special CBS Schoolbreak Special (for "Flour Babies") Nominated
1969 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Performance Little Murders Won [93]
1987 Outstanding Actress in a Play Broadway Bound Won [94]
1995 Death Defying Acts Nominated [95]
1998 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play The Diary of Anne Frank Nominated [96]
2000 Outstanding Actress in a Play The Tale of the Allergist's Wife Nominated [97]
2008 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play The New Century Won [98]
2011 Other Desert Cities Nominated [99]
2012 Outstanding Actress in a Play The Lyons Nominated [100]
1978 Golden Globe Awards Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy Alice Won [101]
1979 Won
1980 Nominated
1995 Obie Awards Distinguished Performance by an Actress Death Defying Acts Won [102]
2012 The Lyons Won [103]
1979 Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Alice Nominated [104]
1965 Theatre World Awards Distinguished Performer Wet Paint Won [105]
1970 Tony Awards Best Supporting or Featured Actress in a Play Last of the Red Hot Lovers Nominated [106]
1987 Best Leading Actress in a Play Broadway Bound Won [107]
1998 Best Featured Actress in a Play The Diary of Anne Frank Nominated [108]
2001 Best Leading Actress in a Play The Tale of the Allergist's Wife Nominated [109]
2010 Collected Stories Nominated [110]
2012 The Lyons Nominated [111]
2007 TV Land Awards Favorite Working Mom Alice Won

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Further reading

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Putt, Jr., Barry M. (2019). Alice: Life Behind the Counter in Mel's Greasy Spoon (A Guide to the Feature Film, the TV Series, and More). Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media. ISBN 978-1629334264.

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