Linda Lavin, Tony-winning actor who found fame as TV’s Alice, dies aged 87

Lavin became working-class icon as waitress in TV sitcom and enjoyed long and celebrated career on stage and screen

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 Angeles on Sunday of complications from recently discovered lung cancer, her representative, Bill Veloric, told the Associated Press in an email.