Kirstie Alley
Kirsten Louise Alley (born January 12, 1951 in Wichita , Kansas ) is an American actress .
Life
Alley's mother, Mickie, died in a car accident in 1981. Her father Robert, owner of a timber factory, was seriously injured in the accident. Alley said on Twitter that she was beaten by her mother until she was 17.
Kirsten Alley's first film role was that of Vulcan Lieutenant Saavik in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . In order not to remain committed to this role and allegedly also because her fee demands were not met, she refused to play the Vulcan again in Star Trek III: In Search of Mr. Spock .
After a role in the television series Operation Masquerade ( Masquerade ), she was seen in 1985/86 in the first two seasons of the television miniseries Torches in the Storm in the role of the abolitionist Virgilia Hazard; her then-husband Parker Stevenson played her younger brother Billy Hazard in the second season of the series. She then played Rebecca Howe in the sitcom Cheers and Mollie alongside John Travolta in Look Who's Talking! - the movie had two sequels with the same cast.
In 1992, Alley worked with Prince and is a reporter named "Vanessa Bartholomew" on his album Love Symbol . In the 1990s, Alley was mostly seen in movie comedies and on US television. In 2005 she starred in the sitcom Fat Actress ; from lovesickness she had put on a lot of weight.
Between 1983 and 1997, Alley was married to actor Parker Stevenson and they adopted two children during that time.
Alley has been a Scientology member since a young age . She has reached the second highest step in the Scientology hierarchy and has spent millions of dollars on Scientology.
Filmography
Movie
- 1982: The Encounter (One More Chance) - Director: Sam Firstenberg
- 1982: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) - Director: Nicholas Meyer
- 1984: Blind Date - Directed by Nico Mastorakis
- 1984: Champions
- 1984: Runaway - Spiders of death (Runaway) - Director: Michael Crichton
- 1985: My Life as Bunny (A Bunny's Tale) - Director: Karen Arthur
- 1987: Summer School - Director: Carl Reiner
- 1988: She is having a Baby (She's Having a Baby) ( cameo )
- 1988: Shoot to Kill (Shoot to Kill) - Director: Roger Spottiswoode
- 1989: Loverboy - love to order (Loverboy)
- 1989: Look who's talking! (Look Who Is Talking) - Director: Amy Heckerling
- 1990: Madhouse - Director: Tom Ropelewski
- 1990: An almost decent woman (Sibling Rivalry) - Director: Carl Reiner
- 1990: Look Who Is Talking 2 (Look Who Is Talking Too) - Director: Amy Heckerling
- 1993: Look Who's there now speaks (Look Who Is Talking Now) - Director: Tom Ropelewski
- 1995: One and One Makes Four (It Takes Two) - Director: Andy Tennant
- 1995: Joey's Team (Sticks and Stones) - Directed by Neil Tolkin
- 1995: Village of the Damned (Village of the Damned) - Director: John Carpenter
- 1995: The Dream of Happiness (Radiant City) - Director: Robert Allan Ackerman
- 1996: Nevada - Director: Gary Tieche
- 1996: Peter and the Wolf - Director: George Daugherty
- 1997: The Tooth Fairy (Toothless) - Director: Melanie Mayron
- 1997: Harry beside himself (Deconstructing Harry) - Director: Woody Allen
- 1997: For Richer or Poorer (For Richer or Poorer) - Director: Bryan Spicer
- 1999: The Mao Game
- 1999: Mercilessly Beautiful (Drop Dead Gorgeous) - Director: Michael Patrick Jann
- 2002: Back by Midnight
- 2013: Syrup
- 2015: Love without medical insurance (Accidental Love) - Director: David O. Russell
watch TV
- 1983: Operation Masquerade: Sins of Paris (Masquerade) - Director: Peter H. Hunt
- 1983: Love Boat (season 7, episode 11)
- 1984: Sins of the Past
- 1984: Hitchhiker IV
- 1985: A Bunny's Tale
- 1985: Torches in the Storm Part 1-6 (North and South: Book I) - Directed by Richard T. Heffron
- 1986: Torches in the Storm Part 7-12 (North and South: Book II) - Directed by Kevin Connor
- 1986: Hotel California (Prince of Bel Air) - Director: Charles Braverman
- 1986: Deadly Heat - Las Vegas Cop II (Strong: Mirror Image)
- 1987: Infidelity
- 1987-1993: Cheers
- 1994: Too Much Love - David's Mother
- 1996: Radiant City
- 1996: Don't ask about tomorrow (Suddenly)
- 1997: The Last Don
- 1997–2000: Veronica (Veronica's Closet)
- 1997: Toothless
- 1998: The Last Don II
- 2001: Blonde
- 2001: Dharma & Greg (TV series, episode 4x23)
- 2002: Salem Witch Trials
- 2003: Profoundly Normal
- 2004: Family Sins - family for life
- 2004: Without a Trace - disappeared without a trace ( Without a Trace , episode 2x16)
- 2004: While I Was Gone
- 2005: Fat Actress
- 2006: King of Queens ( The King of Queens , TV series, episode 8x14)
- 2007: Sexy, clever and over 40 (Write & Wrong)
- 2007: The Minister of Divine
- 2010: Kirstie Alley's Big Life
- 2011: Dancing with the Stars
- 2013-2014: Kirstie
- 2015: The Middle (episode 6x10)
- 2016: Flaked (episode 1x04)
- 2016: Scream Queens (7 episodes)
- 2018: Celebrity Big Brother ( UK )
Books
- How To Lose Your Ass and Regain Your Life. Rodale, 2005, ISBN 1-59486-232-X .
- The art of men (I Prefer Mine al Dente). Atria Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4516-7358-6 .
Web links
- Kirstie Alley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kirstie Alley. All articles and backgrounds. Spiegel Online , accessed September 12, 2012 (Dossier).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kirstie Alley on Twitter. In: Twitter. Retrieved May 3, 2016 .
- ↑ How much Scientology is there? : Kirstie Alley denies involvement. on: n-tv.de , March 19, 2010.
- ^ Scientology: Prominent Members. ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on: news.at , July 7, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alley, Kirstie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alley, Kirsten Louise (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wichita , Kansas |