Polly Holliday, the versatile actress best remembered for bringing sass and charm to Flo on the long-running sitcom Alice, has died at age 88.
Her death was confirmed by Dennis Aspland, her theatrical agent and close friend to The New York Times.
Holliday passed away on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan, less than a year after the death of her former co-star Linda Lavin, who played the series’ title character.
Holliday shot to fame in the late 1970s as Florence Jean ‘Flo’ Castleberry, the witty, gum-snapping waitress with a sharp tongue.
Audiences quickly fell in love with her signature line, the deadpan, ‘Kiss my grits’, delivered in her sweetest Southern drawl whenever someone managed to get under her skin.
Alice, which debuted on CBS in August 1976, was loosely adapted from Martin Scorsese’s 1974 film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.
Polly Holliday, the versatile actress best remembered for bringing sass and charm to Flo on the long-running sitcom Alice, has died at age 88
