Linda Lavin

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 OffBroadway.

Lavin was born in Portland, Maine, the daughter of David J. Lavin, a businessman and Lucille , an opera singer. The Lavin family were active members of the local area Jewish community. Her family was musically talented, and Lavin has been onstage since the age of five. She attended Waynflete School before enrolling in the College of William and Mary. While at William and Mary she performed with the William and Mary Theater in many productions directed by longtime Professor Howard Scammon. In the summer of 1958 she played one of the leads in The Common Glory, an outdoor drama written by PulitzerPrize winning playwright Paul Green and staged at an amphitheater on campus. Upon her graduation from William and Mary, she had already received her Actors Equity Association card. She was a member of the Compass Players in the late 1950s. By the early 1960s, Lavin had appeared in several Broadway shows and appeared on the 1966 cast recordings of The Mad Show performing Stephen Sondheims The Bo

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