Alison LaPlaca

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Alison La Placa (born December 16, 1959, in New Jersey) is an American actress best known for her role of acid-tongued yuppie Linda Phillips in the Fox sitcoms Duet and its spin-off Open House, both of which aired in the late 1980s.<p>Though La Placa has guest-starred on some of the most successful programs in TV history: ER, Cheers, Family Ties, Desperate Housewives and Friends (as Rachel's boss, Joanna), she has become better known for her roles on short-lived sitcoms. La Placa was a regular on The Jackie Thomas Show (1992), Tom (1994), and the NBC sitcom The John Larroquette Show from 1994 to 1996. Because of her work on these less-successful shows, La Placa (like actors Ted McGinley, Rena Sofer, Carla Gugino, and Paula Marshall) is sometimes referred to as a "sitcom killer."<p>La Placa's presence in so many unsuccessful sitcoms inspired the Alison La Placa Open, a yearly contest in which players predict TV shows that will be canceled during the upcoming season.<p>La Placa is married to TV...