Neuwirth, Bebe
NEUWIRTH, BEBE
NEUWIRTH, BEBE (1958– ), U.S. actress. Born in Newark and raised in Princeton, n.j., Neuwirth majored in dance at the Juilliard School in New York. She made her Broadway debut in A Chorus Line in 1980 but she achieved fame as Dr. Lilith Sternin-Crane, a dour psychiatrist married to a psychiatrist, in the long-running hit television series Cheers and its spin-off Frasier. A singer and dancer, she featured in the Broadway musicals Damn Yankees, Sweet Charity, and Chicago and won two Tony awards. In 2005 she starred in the crime drama series Law & Order: Trial by Jury. She appeared in more than 25 movies.
[Stewart Kampel (2nd ed.)]
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