- Taught master classes at NYU's Undergraduate Performing Arts Division.
- 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".
- She has twice been replaced by Valerie Harper, in a New York theater production, once Off-Broadway ("Death-Defying Acts") and once on Broadway ("The Tale of the Allergist's Wife").
- 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.
- 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."
- Best remembered by the public for her starring role in Alice (1976).
- Graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1959.
- On Broadway, playing Granny in "Hollywood Arms" written by Carol Burnett and her daughter, the late Carrie Hamilton. (November 2002)
- Lavin also provided the voice of the Mother Vulture in the animated series Courage the Cowardly Dog for the episode "Watch The Birdies".
- Linda Lavin was an American actress and singer. She was known for playing the title character in the sitcom Alice and for her stage performances, both on and off-Broadway.
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