A nag of a mother with a collection of firm beliefs and eye rolls, a matriarch who is both suffocating and keeping everyone at arm’s length.”
She also recorded her first CD, “Possibilities,” and costarred with Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston in the movie Wanderlust.
In “The Back-Up Plan,” she portrayed Jennifer Lopez’s grandma. When questioned about advice for aspiring performers, Lavin emphasised one point.
“I think that work attracts work because that’s what occurred to me. “I did it as long as it wasn’t morally repugnant to me,” she told the AP in 2011.
In Wilmington, North Carolina, she and her third husband, musician and artist Steve Bakunas, transformed an abandoned car garage into the 50-seat Red Barn Studio Theatre.
