Kirstie Alley, who won an Emmy for her role on 'Cheers' and starred in films including 'Look Who’s Talking,' died Monday. She was 71
Actress Kirstie Alley speaks during the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas on August 5, 2016.LOS ANGELES — Kirstie Alley, who won an Emmy for her role on “Cheers” and starred in films including “Look Who’s Talking,” died Monday. She was 71.
She starred opposite Ted Danson as Rebecca Howe on “Cheers,” the beloved NBC sitcom about a Boston bar, from 1987 to 1993. She joined the show at the height of its popularity after the departure of original star Shelley Long.Kirstie Alley as Rebecca Howe in an episode of"Cheers" that originally aired on September 28, 1989.
Kirstie Alley promotes"Fat Actress," a show she co-wrote and starred in, during Showtime TCA Day in Los Angeles in January 2005.She dealt with the same subject matter in the 2010 A&E reality series “Kirstie Alley’s Big Life,” which chronicled her attempt to lose weight and launch a weight-loss program while working as a single mother in an unconventional household that included pet lemurs.
In recent years she appeared on several other reality shows, including a second-place finish on “Dancing With the Stars” in 2011. She appeared on the competition series “The Masked Singer” wearing a baby mammoth costume earlier this year.One of her co-stars on the show, Jamie Lee Curtis, said on Instagram Monday that Alley was “a great comic foil” on the show and “a beautiful mama bear in her very real life.
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