Actress Polly Holliday, who is best known for her role in the sitcom Alice, died Tuesday at 88.

Her theatrical agent and friend, Dennis Aspland, confirmed her death to The New York Times.

The actress, who played the sassy waitress “Flo” on the long-running sitcom set in a Phoenix diner, died in her Manhattan home.

Holliday’s death comes less than a year after the passing of co-star Linda Lavin, who played the show’s titular character.

Alice, which ran on CBS from 1976 to 1985, was a loose spinoff of Martin Scorsese’s 1974 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. Holliday’s performance as Florence Jean “Flo” Castleberry was beloved by audiences with her signature line, “Kiss my grits,” becoming an iconic quote.

In 1979 and 1980, she won Golden Globe Awards and received multiple Emmy nominat

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