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Kirstie Louise Alley [1] (January 12, 1951 – December 5, 2022) was an American actress. Her breakthrough 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.
Actress: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Kirstie Louise Alley was an American actress. Her breakout role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987-1993), receiving an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991 for the role.
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- Cheers (1982-1993) Cheers is available to stream on Paramount + and Hulu. Spanning almost the entirety of the 1980s, Cheers not only helped to define the decade but also defined Kirstie Alley's career.
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is available to stream on Paramount + In the same year that she joined the cast of Cheers, Kirstie Alley landed a career-defining role in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
- Look Who’s Talking (1989) Look Who's Talking is available to stream on Paramount + If Cheers made Kirstie Alley a TV icon, then Look Who's Talking established her as a movie star as well.
- Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) Drop Dead Gorgeous is currently not available to stream or buy. While it didn't get the warmest welcome upon release in 1999, Drop Dead Gorgeous has gone on to become a true 1990s cult classic.
Dec 6, 2022 · Who Was Kirstie Alley? Kirstie Alley was born on January 12, 1951, in Wichita, Kansas. Her career breakthrough came when she landed her feature-film debut in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan...
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- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. One of Alley's first roles came as Saavik in the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, in which she played opposite Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols.
- Cheers. Alley rose to fame when she starred as Rebecca Howe on the hit NBC sitcom Cheers, replacing actress Shelley Long in 1987. Rebecca was the on-off love interest of bar owner Sam, played by Ted Danson.
- Summer School. Alley portrayed Robin Bishop, a high school history teacher, in the 1987 Carl Reiner-directed comedy. She starred alongside Mark Harmon, who played a gym teacher, and Courtney Thorne-Smith, an underachieving student.
- Look Who's Talking. The 1989 film Look Who's Talking brought together Alley and one of her lifelong friends: John Travolta. In a 2018 podcast interview, she shared that she fell in love with the actor in the late '80s, but decided not to start a sexual relationship with him because she was married to Parker Stevenson at the time.
Dec 6, 2022 · Kirstie Alley is perhaps best-remembered to fans for playing driven, neurotic career woman Rebecca Howe on five seasons of NBC's long-running sitcom set in a neighborhood bar. Alley won an Emmy...
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Dec 11, 2022 · Kirstie Alley may be gone, but Rebecca Howe lives forever in syndication and streaming. Here are Alley's 12 best episodes of Cheers ranked.
