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Kirstie Alley
Wichita, Kansas, USA
Kirstie Louise Alley (January 12, 1951 – December 5, 2022) was an American actress. Her breakout role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987–1993), for which she recei…
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Kirstie Louise Alley (January 12, 1951 – December 5, 2022) was an American actress. Her breakout 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, she starred in the sitcom Veronica's Closet, earning additional Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Alley appeared in various films, including Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Summer School (1987), Shoot to Kill (1988), Look Who's Talking (1989) and its two sequels (1990–1993), Madhouse (1990), Sibling Rivalry (1990), Village of the Damned (1995), It Takes Two (1995), Deconstructing Harry (1997), For Richer or Poorer (1997), and Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). She won her second Emmy Award in 1994 for the television film David's Mother. In 1997, Alley received another Emmy nomination for her work in the crime drama series The Last Don. In 2005, she played a fictionalized version of herself on Showtime's Fat Actress. She later appeared on Kirstie Alley's Big Life (2010), and was a contestant on the 12th season of Dancing with the Stars (2011–2012), finishing in second place. In 2013, Alley returned to acting with the title role on the sitcom Kirstie. In 2016, she appeared on the Fox comedy horror series Scream Queens. In 2018, she was a contestant on the 22nd series of the British reality show Celebrity Big Brother, in which she finished as runner-up.
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2021
Tucker Carlson Today
TV show Self
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2020
You Can't Take My Daughter
Movie Suzanne
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2019
The Masked Singer
TV show Baby Mammoth
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2016
Match Game
TV show Self - Panelist
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2016
To Tell the Truth
TV show Self - Panelist
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2016
Flaked
TV show Jackie
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2015
Scream Queens
TV show Ingrid Marie Hoffel
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2015
Accidental Love
Movie Aunt Rita
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2015
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
Kirstie
TV show Maddie Banks
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2013
The Goldbergs
TV show Janice Bartlett
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2013
Baby Sellers
Movie Carla Huxley
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2013
Syrup
Movie Herself
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2010
The Fran Drescher Show
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2010
Hot in Cleveland
TV show Maddie Banks
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2010
Kirstie Alley's Big Life
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2010
The Marriage Ref
TV show Self - Panelist
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2009
The Middle
TV show Pam Staggs
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2007
Write & Wrong
Movie Byrdie Langdon
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2006
The Hills
TV show Self
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2005
Dancing with the Stars
TV show Self - Contestant
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2005
Fat Actress
TV show Kirstie Alley
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2005
Back By Midnight
Movie Gloria Beaumont
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2004
While I Was Gone
Movie Jo Beckett
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2004
Family Sins
Movie Benda Geck
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2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV show Self - Guest
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2003
Salem Witch Trials
TV show Ann Putnam
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2003
Profoundly Normal
Movie Donna Lee Shelby Thornton
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2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV show Self - "Mean Tweets"
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2002
Without a Trace
TV show Noreen Raab
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2001
Blonde
TV show Elsie
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2001
Celebrity Big Brother
TV show Self
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1999
SNL: The Best of Adam Sandler
Movie Newlywed (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1999
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Movie Gladys Leeman
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1999
The Mao Game
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1998
The King of Queens
TV show Kirstie Alley
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1998
The Last Don II
TV show Rose Marie Clericuzio
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1997
Deconstructing Harry
Movie Joan
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1997
For Richer or Poorer
Movie Caroline Sexton
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1997
Toothless
Movie Katherine Lewis
