Linda Lavin, Tony-winning Broadway actress who starred in sitcom 'Alice,' dies at 87

FILE - Actress Linda Lavin speaks at the 33rd annual Producers Guild Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California, March 19, 2022. She has died at age 87.

Linda Lavin, a Tony Award-winning stage actress who became a working class icon as a paper-hat wearing waitress on the TV sitcom "Alice," has died. She was 87.