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Kirstie Alley
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Executive Producer, Actor
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January 12, 1955 in Wichita, KS
Biography:Versatile American actress "Kirstie Alley" 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 lifestyle got old, "Alley" moved to California, underwent drug rehabilitation, and became a devout Scientologist. 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 miniseries "North and South", but she did not become a real star until she was selected to replace Shelly Long in Cheers in the late '80s. Though the role... Full Biography
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