'Alice' star Linda Lavin's immediate cause of death revealed

Stage and surface histrion Linda Lavin’s contiguous origin of decease has been revealed.

The “Alice” star’s death certificate, obtained and posted online Monday by TMZ, said that her contiguous origin of decease was cardiopulmonary apprehension owed to her underlying lung cancer. Cardiopulmonary arrest, which is besides known arsenic cardiac arrest, occurs erstwhile the bosom abruptly stops beating efficaciously and prevents humor from circulating done the body, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Confirming her decease successful precocious December, her representative, Bill Veloric, said the 87-year-old died successful Los Angeles aft complications from precocious discovered lung cancer. Lavin’s decease certificate said that it was not known however agelong she had been surviving with lung cancer.

The document, issued by the Los Angles County Department of Public Health, confirmed that Lavin died Dec. 29 astatine her location successful Malibu. On Dec. 19, the histrion had undergone a bronchoscopy — a process that allows doctors to analyse airways successful the lungs. She was cremated successful January and her remains were fixed to her husband, Steve Bakunas, the papers said.

Aside from her Emmy-nominated starring relation successful “Alice” — the 1976 CBS sitcom adaptation of Martin Scorsese’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” that ran for 9 seasons — Lavin was a Tony Award winner. She won the grant for champion histrion successful a play for Neil Simon’s “Broadway Bound” successful 1987 and scored 5 different Tony nominations during her Broadway career. The histrion besides appeared connected the tiny surface successful “The O.C.,” “The Sopranos,” “9JKL,” “Santa Clarita Diet” and “Sean Saves the World.”

More recently, Lavin appeared successful the CBS sitcom “B Positive,” the 2021 movie “Being the Ricardos” and the Netflix bid “No Good Deed.” At the clip of her death, she was filming the upcoming Hulu bid “Mid-Century Modern.”