Bebe Neuwirth
A versatile actress who has displayed a talent for both comedy and drama, Bebe Neuwirth is also a gifted dancer and vocalist. While she has won acclaim for her work on the musical stage, she's still best known to television viewers as Lilith Sternin, Frazier Crane's tightly wound girlfriend (and later wife) on the popular comedy Cheers. Born Beatrice Neuwirth, she was raised in Princeton, New Jersey, by her mathematician father and artist mother. Bebe began taking dance lessons at the age of five and, while a student at Princeton High School, she began appearing in local ballet productions and community theater productions. After high school, Ms. Neuwirth studied dance at New York's prestigious Juilliard School, and in 1980 she made her professional debut as Sheila, a once-famous dancer looking to make a comeback, in a touring production of the long-running musical A Chorus Line.

In 1982, Bebe Neuwirth hit Broadway in two different shows: Dancin', directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, and Little Me. In 1986, Ms. Neuwirth won the starring role in another Fosse musical, a revival of Sweet Charity, which later earned her a Tony award and cemented her reputation on Broadway. Her performance in the Broadway revival of Chicago, choreographed by Ann Reinking, won her the Tony and Drama Desk awards. After scoring meatier roles in the films Celebrity, Summer of Sam and Liberty Heights, Ms. Neuwirth returned to episodic television in the well-reviewed but short-lived drama series Deadline, in which she worked alongside Oliver Platt, Lili Taylor, and Tom Conti. She later appeared in much larger movies such as Tadpole, Le Divorce, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and The Big Bounce.