Kirstie Louise Alley is an American actress and spokesmodel. She first achieved recognition in 1982, playing Saavik in the science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Alley played Rebecca Howe on the NBC sitcom Cheers , receiving an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991 for the role. From 1997–2000, she starred on the sitcom Veronica's Closet, earning additional Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. Alley received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1995.
Alley has appeared in several movies, including Summer School , Shoot to Kill , Look Who's Talking and its two sequels , Madhouse, Sibling Rivalry , Village of the Damned, It Takes Two , Deconstructing Harry, For Richer or Poorer , and Drop Dead Gorgeous . She won her second Emmy Award in 1994 for the television film David's Mother.
In 1997, Alley received a further 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 the reality show Kirstie Alley's Big Life , and was a contestant on the twelfth season of Dancing with the Stars , finishing in second place. In 2013, she returned to acting with the title role on the sitcom Kirstie, and in 2016 joined the second season of the Fox comedy horror series Scream Queens. In 2018, Alley finished as runner-up on season 22 of the British reality series Celebrity Big Brother.
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“You are not in business to be popular.”
As quoted in Funny Ladies : The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women (2001) by Bill Adler, p. 4
