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Linda Lavin
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Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Actor, Singer Born: October 15, 1937 in Portland, ME Biography:Making her stage bow at age five in a community production of Alice in Wonderland, "Linda Lavin" spent the next ten years studying piano under the watchful eye of her stage mother. After majoring in theater arts at William and Mary College, Lavin appeared in stock in New Jersey, then weathered the chorus-audition rounds in New York, making her off-Broadway debut in a 1960 revival of "Oh, Kay" (1960). Two years later, she reached Broadway in "A Family Affair". She went on to play Lois Lane (a la "Ethel Merman") in the short-lived 1965 Broadway musical It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman, and when that show folded she starred in the off-Broadway production "Wet Paint", which earned her a Theatre World Award. The musicomedy review The Mad Show followed, then Lavin was selected by director "Alan Arkin" to play Patsy Newquist (one of her favorite roles, and one that earned her the New York... Full Biography
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