Those friends, Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira, and “Saturday Night Live” alum Laraine Newman, remembered the 78-year-old actor as a TV icon, kindhearted person and treasured member of the Groundlings ...

WASHINGTON — Lynne Marie Stewart, known for her role as Miss Yvonne in "Pee-wee's Playhouse,' has died. She was 78. Actress Cassandra "Elvira" Peterson announced Stewart's death on her social media.

“One of the kindest, sweetest, funniest women who ever lived. The iconic Miss Yvonne of Pee-wee’s Playhouse: She’ll always be ‘the most beautiful woman in Puppetland.’ .” In ...

A beloved children’s television star is dead at age 78. Lynne Marie Stewart, best known for playing Miss Yvonne on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” and Charlie Day’s mother on “It’s Always Sunn ...

“The iconic Miss Yvonne of ‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse:’ She’ll always be ‘the most beautiful woman in Puppetland.’” The Los Angeles native began her career as part of the sketch comedy ...

She had a pretty good run on TV, too. Lynne Marie Stewart, known for playing the ethereal Miss Yvonne on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” has died, her friends shared in memorial posts on social media ...

By Sara Ruberg Lynne Marie Stewart, who played Pee-wee Herman’s perky, bouffant-wigged neighbor, Miss Yvonne, on the 1980s children’s television series “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” and the ...