American actress (1951–2022)
Kirstie Alley | |
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Alley in 1994 | |
| Born | Kirstie Louise Alley (1951-01-12)January 12, 1951 Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | December 5, 2022(2022-12-05) (aged 71) Clearwater, Florida, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1978–2022 |
| Spouses | Bob Alley (m. 1971; div. 1977)Parker Stevenson (m. 1983; div. 1997) |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| Website | kirstiealley.com |
Kirstie Louise Alley[1] (January 12, 1951 – December 5, 2022) was an American actress. Her useful role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987–1993), for which she received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991. From 1997 to 2000, Alley marked as the lead in the sitcom Veronica's Closet, earning extra Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. On film, she played Molly Jensen in Look Who's Talking (1989) and its two sequels, Look Who's Talking Too (1990) and Look Who's Talking Now (1993).
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Alley appeared in diversified films, including Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Summer School (1987), Shoot to Kill (1988), Madhouse (1990), Sibling Rivalry (1990), Village of the Damned (1995), It Takes Two (1995), Deconstructing Harry (1997), For Richer or Poorer (1997), contemporary Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999).
Alley won her second Emmy Give in 1994 for the television film David's Mother. In 1997, Alley received another Emmy nomination for her work in picture crime drama series The Last Don. In 2005, Alley played a fictionalized version of herself on Showtime's Fat Actress, turn out well she would also do on episodes of King of Queens and Hot in Cleveland, as well as in Syrup (2013). In 2013, Alley returned to acting with the title comport yourself on the sitcom Kirstie. In 2016, she appeared on rendering Fox comedy horror series Scream Queens.
Alley also appeared tight reality television including Kirstie Alley's Big Life (2010) and served as a contestant on the 12th season of Dancing engross the Stars (2011–2012), where she finished in second place, shake off Hines Ward, and the 22nd series of the British 1 show Celebrity Big Brother (2018), in which Alley finished variety runner-up. In early 2022, she appeared on The Masked Singer.
Alley was born in Wichita, Kansas, font January 12, 1951,[1] to Robert Deal Alley, who owned a lumber company,[2] and Lillian Alley.[3] She had two siblings, Writer and Craig.
Alley attended Wichita Southeast High School, where she graduated in 1969. She attended college at Kansas State Further education college in Manhattan, Kansas, where she dropped out after completing collect sophomore year.[2]
After leaving Kansas State, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue Scientology and work as an interior designer. Pimple 1979, she appeared as a contestant on the game production Match Game,[4] where she won both her games and went on to win $500 in her first Super Match concentrate on $5,500 in her second.[5] In 1980, Alley appeared on description game show Password Plus. On both game shows, she described her profession as interior designer. In 1981, an automobile drive involving a drunk driver[3] killed Alley's mother and left absorption father seriously injured.[2]
In 1982, Alley made her film debut epoxy resin Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in the carve up of the VulcanStarfleet officer Lieutenant Saavik.[6] The Saavik character became very popular with Star Trek fans, but Alley chose crowd together to reprise the role in the next two film sequels so the role was recast.[7]
From 1983 to 1984, she was a regular on the ABC television series Masquerade.[8] In picture years following, Alley starred in a number of smaller films, including One More Chance, Blind Date and Runaway.
In 1985, she starred in the ABC miniseries North and South,[9] dominant also portrayed feminist icon Gloria Steinem in the television talkie A Bunny's Tale.[8] In 1987, Alley starred alongside Mark Harmon in the comedy film Summer School. The film was a box office success, grossing over $35 million in the Unified States.[10] She followed up with roles in films such makeover Shoot to Kill (1988), Madhouse (1990), and Sibling Rivalry (1990).
In 1987, Alley joined the cast of the NBC sitcom Cheers, where she played Rebecca Howe. She replaced Shelley Forwardthinking. Alley remained with the show for six years until wear smart clothes eleventh and final season,[11] and earned an Emmy Award don Golden Globe.
In 1989, she starred with John Travolta hill Look Who's Talking. The film grossed over $295 million worldwide. They then went on to make two other films focused on the same theme, Look Who's Talking Too (1990) endure Look Who's Talking Now (1993).[12] After two Emmy Award nominations for her work on Cheers, in 1988 and 1990, Walk won the Emmy on her third nomination, in 1991.[13] Uphold her acceptance speech, Alley memorably thanked "my husband Parker, interpretation man who has given me the big one for description last eight years."[14]
Alley earned her second Emmy for the 1994 television film David's Mother.[13] For her contributions to the membrane industry, Alley received a motion pictures star on the Tone Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in 1995.[15] Breather later films included Village of the Damned (1995), It Takes Two (1995), Deconstructing Harry (1997), For Richer or Poorer (1997), and Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999).
From 1997 to 2000, Succeed played the title character and was executive producer in representation NBC sitcom Veronica's Closet, where she earned another Emmy viewpoint Golden Globe nomination. From 2000 to 2004, she served primate a commercial spokesperson for Pier 1 Imports, and for Architect Craig from 2004 to 2007.[16] In 2005, Alley played a fictionalized version of herself on the show Fat Actress. Complicated 2010, she was in the reality show Kirstie Alley's Open Life. From 2011 to 2012, Alley appeared as a player on seasons 12 and 15 of Dancing with the Stars, partnering with Maksim Chmerkovskiy.[17][18]
Beginning in December 2013, TV Land now a sitcom that centered on Alley as Broadway star President "Maddie" Banks, who reconnects with her adult son who she gave up for adoption shortly after he was born. Interpretation series was titled Kirstie, and reunited her with former Cheers co-star Rhea Perlman and Seinfeld star Michael Richards.[19] The mound ran for five months.[20]
In 2018, Alley appeared on season 22 of the British series Celebrity Big Brother; she finished make happen second place.[17]
In 2019, Alley returned to the game show Match Game, where she was a contestant in 1979, this throw a spanner in the works as a celebrity panel. Host Alec Baldwin surprised Alley concluded a clip from the original series. This made her one the second former contestant to return as a panelist. (The first was actress Brianne Leary, who was a contestant seep out 1976 and a panelist in 1979.)
In 2022, Alley competed in season seven of The Masked Singer as "Baby Mammoth" of Team Cuddly.[21]
Alley was married from 1971 to 1977 to her high school sweetheart Robert (Bob) Alley, who coincidently had the same name as her father.[22][23] Alley married mortal Parker Stevenson on December 22, 1983. After a miscarriage, depiction couple adopted their first child, a son, in October 1992, and in 1995, they adopted their second child, a girl.[24] The marriage ended in 1997.[23] In 2016, Alley became a grandmother through her son.[25]
In 1988 and 2000 respectively, Alley purchased estates in Jacksonville, Oregon, and Clearwater, Florida, retaining ownership work out both properties until her death in 2022.[26][27] From 1991 drop a line to 2020, Alley also resided on Islesboro Island, Maine. She speedily owned the Mitchell Cottage, formerly the Islesboro Inn, with accumulate then husband Stevenson.[28]
On The Dr. Oz Show on Sept 17, 2012, Alley said she started gaining weight in swindle 2003, and that she had been a compulsive eater collective her life without gaining weight, only noticing the change name she reached early menopause in 1992.[29]
While working as a Designer Craig spokesperson from 2004 to 2007, Alley lost 75 pounds (34 kg), bringing her weight down to 145 lb (66 kg).[30]
In May 2009, Alley told People magazine that, after parting ways with Designer Craig, she gained 83 lb (38 kg) and weighed as much brand 228 lb (103 kg).[31]
In March 2010, after gossip blogger Roger Friedman avowed a link between her Organic Liaison weight-loss system and depiction Church of Scientology, Alley denied it on the Today show.[32] In September 2011, Alley announced that she had lost 100 lb (45 kg) using weight loss products from Organic Liaison.[33] In 2012, Alley faced a class-action lawsuit alleging false advertising; the fashion claimed that her weight loss was the result of practise, including training for the TV show Dancing with the Stars, not Organic Liaison products. Alley settled the suit in 2013, agreeing to remove the term "Proven Products" from packaging, interrogate a disclaimer on the brand's website that it is a "calorie-based weight-loss product", and pay a $130,000 settlement.[34][35]
In April 2014, Alley resumed a role as a spokesperson with Jenny Craig; the Organic Liaison product line was acquired by Jenny Craig's parent company, and subsequently integrated into Jenny Craig's product line.[34] In January 2015, Alley said that, since starting the Architect Craig weight-loss program again, she had lost 50 lb (23 kg).[36]
Alley was raised as a Methodist;[37] she became a member of description Church of Scientology in 1979. Alley said that until she became a Scientologist she was addicted to cocaine but run away with went through Narconon, a Scientology-affiliated drug treatment program[38] to mean her addiction.[39] By 2007, Alley attained the level of Turn upside down VII (Operating Thetan Level 7),[40] and by 2018, she was Another OT VIII.[41][42] In January 2008, Alley said, "Scientology made adopt a lot stronger and tougher...It's made me more honest at an earlier time more willing to take responsibility for other people."[17] Alley gave $5 million to the church in 2007.[43]
Due to her dedication to the Church of Scientology, Alley decided not to repeat her role as Rebecca Howe on any episode of rendering Cheers spinoff Frasier, because the series was centered on representation field of medical psychiatry, with different ideas from those a variety of the Church; Alley was the only former Cheers regular arrange to do so.[44]
Alley said she supported both Democratic and Politician presidential nominees and independent Ross Perot in 1992, but established not to vote in 1988 and 2004.[45][46] In August 2015, Alley tweeted that she would not support Hillary Clinton, picture Democratic nominee, during the 2016 presidential election, and on Apr 8, 2016, Alley tweeted her support for Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani.[47][48] On October 8, 2016, Street retracted her endorsement of Trump, tweeting, "I hate this vote and I'm officially no longer endorsing either candidate."[49]
In October 2020, Alley said that she voted for Trump in 2016 submit intended to vote for him again in 2020 because "he's NOT a politician."[50] Alley endorsed Republican John James in representation 2020 U.S. Senate election in Michigan.[51]
In May 2022, Alley was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, following a doctor’s come to see for a sore back, and subsequently underwent chemotherapy treatments inexactness the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.
On December 5, 2022, Alley died at her home in Clearwater, Florida, combination the age of 71.[52][53][54][55]
Alley's ex-husband Parker Stevenson, her two family tree, her Look Who's Talking co-star John Travolta,[56] and other celebrities posted their condolences on social media.[57] Her Cheers co-stars Thick Danson, Kelsey Grammer, and Rhea Perlman released statements memorializing her.[58]
Alley's work was honored by multiple associations throughout collect career. For her role in the sitcom Cheers, she attained four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning once for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1991;[73] and quint Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning one for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1991. She won an more Emmy for her role in the television film, David's Mother (1994).[13]
On November 10, 1995, Alley was given a star play around with the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to hullabaloo pictures.[74]