{"id":149322,"date":"2022-12-06T02:51:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T02:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kirstie-alley-emmy-winning-cheers-star-dies-at-71\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T02:51:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T02:51:59","slug":"kirstie-alley-emmy-winning-cheers-star-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kirstie-alley-emmy-winning-cheers-star-dies-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirstie Alley, Emmy-winning ‘Cheers’ star, dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kirstie Alley, who won an Emmy for her role on \u201cCheers\u201d and starred in films including \u201cLook Who’s Talking,\u201d died Monday. She was 71.<\/p>\n

Alley died of cancer that was only recently discovered, her children True and Lillie Parker said in a post on Twitter<\/a>. Alley’s manager Donovan Daughtry confirmed the death in an email to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs iconic as she was on screen, she was an even more amazing mother and grandmother,\u201d her children’s statement said.<\/p>\n

She starred opposite Ted Danson as Rebecca Howe on \u201cCheers,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Alley would win an Emmy for best lead actress in a comedy series for the role in 1991. <\/p>\n

\u201cI only thank God I didn’t have to wait as long as Ted,\u201d Alley said in her acceptance, gently ribbing her \u201cCheers\u201d co-star Ted Danson, who had finally won an Emmy for his role as Sam Malone in his eighth nomination the previous year. <\/p>\n

She would take a second Emmy for best lead actress in a miniseries or television movie in 1993 for playing the title role in the CBS TV movie \u201cDavid’s Mother.\u201d <\/p>\n

She had her own sitcom on the network, \u201cVeronica’s Closet,\u201d from 1997 to 2000.<\/p>\n

In the 1989 comedy \u201cLook Who’s Talking,\u201d which gave her a major career boost, she played the mother of a baby who’s inner thoughts were voiced by Bruce Willis. She would also appear in a 1990 sequel \u201cLook Who’s Talking Too,\u201d and another in 1993, \u201cLook Who’s Talking Now.\u201d <\/p>\n

John Travolta, her co-star in the trilogy, paid her tribute in an Instagram post.<\/p>\n

\u201cKirstie was one of the most special relationships I’ve ever had,\u201d Travolta said, along with a photo of Alley. \u201cI love you Kirstie. I know we will see each other again.\u201d<\/p>\n

She would play a fictionalized version of herself in the 2005 Showtime series \u201cFat Actress,\u201d a show that drew comedy from her public and media treatment over her weight gain and loss.<\/p>\n

She dealt with the same subject matter in the 2010 A&E reality series \u201cKirstie Alley’s Big Life,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Alley said she agreed to do the show in part because of the misinformation about her that had become a tabloid staple. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnything bad you can say about me, they say,\u201d Alley told the AP at the time. \u201cI’ve never collapsed, fainted, passed out. Basically, anything they’ve said, I never. The only true thing is I got fat.\u201d <\/p>\n

In recent years she appeared on several other reality shows, including a second-place finish on \u201cDancing With the Stars\u201d in 2011. She appeared on the competition series \u201cThe Masked Singer\u201d wearing a baby mammoth costume earlier this year.<\/p>\n

She appeared in the Ryan Murphy black comedy series \u201cScream Queens\u201d on Fox in 2015 and 2016. <\/p>\n

One of her co-stars on the show, Jamie Lee Curtis, said on Instagram Monday that Alley was \u201ca great comic foil\u201d on the show and \u201ca beautiful mama bear in her very real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alley’s \u201cCheers\u201d co-star Kelsey Grammar said in a statement that \u201cI always believed grief for a public figure is a private matter, but I will say I loved her.\u201d<\/p>\n

A native of Wichita, Kansas, Alley attended Kansas State University before dropping out and moving to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Her first television appearances were as a game show contestant, on \u201cThe Match Game\u201d in 1979 and \u201cPassword\u201d in 1980. <\/p>\n

She made her movie debut in 1982\u2032s \u201cStar Trek: The Wrath of Khan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alley was married to her high school sweetheart from 1970 to 1977, and to actor Parker Stevenson from 1983 until 1997. <\/p>\n

She told the AP in 2010 if she married again, \u201cI’d leave the guy within 24 hours because I’m sure he’d tell me not to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n