Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: January 12, 1955
Place of Birth: Wichita, Kan, USA
Sign: Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Virgo
Relations: Ex-husband: Parker Stevenson (former Hardy Boy); father: Robert (lumber company owner); mother: Mickie (deceased); sister: Collette (biology teacher); brother: Craig (lumber company manager); kids: William True Stevenson, Lillie Price Stevenson (both adopted); ex-companion: James Wilder (actor)
Education: Kansas State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, University of Kansas
KIRSTIE ALLEY IS a versatile actress, who has found success in feature films, but is still best known for her portrayal of neurotic Rebecca Howe during the latter years of the television series Cheers. Noted for her unusual beauty, thick chestnut-colored hair and whiskey voice, Alley studied drama in her native Kansas and then became an interior decorator. For a while, she went through a wild and crazy phase in which she abused cocaine and hung out with bikers, but when the life-style got old, Alley moved to California, underwent drug rehabilitation and became a devout Scientologist (John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise…). She made her feature film debut playing Savic, a Vulcan student of Mr. Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and then played a major role in the television mini-series North and South. She did not, however, become a real star until she was selected to replace Shelly Long in Cheers in the late '80s. Though the role of Rebecca marked Alley as a comedienne, she is also a talented dramatic actress as she demonstrated in the 1988 outdoor thriller Shoot to Kill. In 1989, Alley had her first box-office hit with Look Who's Talking; that coupled with Cheers, made her one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood and the winner of Emmys, a People's Choice Award and a Golden Globe for Look Who's Talking. With the demise of Cheers, Alley's career became more sporadic and the quality of her films has been uneven. In the fall of 1997, Alley stared in a new sitcom, Veronica's Closet, scheduled on the NBC Fall primetime lineup.
Movies And TV:
1999 Dairy Queens
1999 Drop Dead Gorgeous
1998 The Last Don II
1997 Deconstructing Harry
1997 For Richer or Poorer
1997 The Last Don
1997 Nevada
1997 Toothless
1997 Veronica's Closet
1996 Peter and the Wolf
1996 Radiant City
1996 Sticks and Stones
1995 It Takes Two
1995 Peter And The Wolf/Clamshell
1995 Peter and the Wolf
1995 Village of the Damned
1994 3 Chains o' Gold
1994 David's Mother
1993 Look Who's Talking Now
1990 Look Who's Talking Too
1990 Madhouse
1990 Masquerade
1990 One More Chance
1990 Sibling Rivalry
1989 Look Who's Talking
1989 Loverboy
1988 She's Having a Baby
1988 Shoot to Kill
1987 Infidelity
1987 Prince of Bel Air
1987 Summer School
1986 North and South II
1986 Prince of Bel Air
1986 Stark: Mirror Image
1985 Bunny's Tale, A
1985 North and South
1984 Blind Date
1984 Champions
1984 Runaway
1984 Sins of the Past
1983 Blind Date
1983 Masquerade
1982 Cheers
1982 Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
1981 One More Chance
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