Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0

Linda Lavin won a Tony Award for playing a strong-willed mother in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, part of a stage career that also earned her three Drama Desk Awards and induction into the American Theater Hall of Fame. On television she's best remembered as the title character of Alice, the CBS sitcom about a diner waitress, which won her two consecutive Golden Globes, and she kept working into her eighties, taking a recurring role on B Positive shortly before her death in 2024.