Linda Lavin

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Summary

Linda Lavin was an American actor and singer known for the television series Alice and a long career on Broadway, including her Tony-winning performance in Broadway Bound. Her public record includes advocacy for women’s workplace equality: she helped announce the 1980 Working Women’s Platform, which called for equal pay and recognition of homemakers’ unpaid labor, and later recalled speaking at labor conventions and Equal Rights Amendment rallies. She said playing Alice politicized her around equal pay and equal rights. No widely reported record of race-focused or LGBTQ advocacy, DEI roles, or partisan campaigning is on record.