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The Tony Awards Administration Committee has announced that the honorees for the 2024 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre, as well as Special Tony Awards.

The actress, who also starred in The Fiddler on the Roof and Fame, passed away in Los Angeles following complications of myelodysplastic syndrome.

Law & Order star Joanna Merlin, who was in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof, has died aged 92.

She also appeared in All My Children, The Good Wife, Homeland and more.

Joanna Merlin, who played Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway and was casting director for Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince, has died at 92.

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Joanna Merlin, who acted on Broadway (the original Tzeitel in Fiddler On The Roof) to film and television (a judge on Law & Order: SVU) has died at 92.

Merlin was the original Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway. Merlin cast several Stephen Sondheim musicals, including Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Merrily We Roll Along, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Pacific Overtures. She also cast Evita and On the Twentieth Century. She was seen on screen in Fame and Law & Order.

She also appeared in All My Children, The Good Wife, Homeland and more.