Actress Kirstie Louise Alley is American. Her breakthrough role was Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987–1993), for which she won a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award in 1991. She appeared in the sitcom Veronica's Closet from 1997 to 2000, garnering more Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.
Parents are Robert Deal and Lillian Mickie Alley.
Parents are Robert Deal and Lillian Mickie Alley.
She has English, German, Scottish and Irish ancestry.
attended Wichita Southeast High School, where she graduated (1969). formerly a cheerleader in high school.
attended Manhattan, Kansas's Kansas State University, but left after her sophomore year.
has two adopted children from her marriage to Parker Stevenson: Lillie Price Stevenson and William True Stevenson, both born on September 28, 1992. (born June 15, 1994).
created Lillie's Learning Place, a literacy and tutoring facility named after her daughter, in her hometown of Wichita, Kansas.
For her work in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California, she received the Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance in 1983.
On November 9, 1995, she received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
was expecting their first child when she and her husband, Parker Stevenson, experienced a miscarriage. September 1990
She paid $1.5 million for the 5,200-square-foot waterfront mansion that had been Lisa Marie Presley's home in Clearwater, Florida, in May 2000.
She donated $5 million to the Church of Scientology in 2007 and listed her Encino, California home for sale for $6.5 million in 2010.
backed Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for president in 2016.
presently resides in an estate near Islesboro, Maine.
05 December 2022: Emmy-winning Cheers actress dies of cancer at 71,