Trivia

She has played the same character (Dr. Lilith Sternin) in three different series: Cheers (1982), Wings (1990) and Frasier (1993).

After Cheers (1982) went off the air, she got a lot of offers from TV and film essentially asking her to pretty much play the same character. She was offered a regular role as Lilith on the Cheers (1982) spin-off, Frasier (1993) but she turned it down so she could go back to Broadway. She did guests spots on the show instead.

Education: Graduated from Princeton High School (Princeton, New Jersey, 1976) Majored in dance at The Juilliard School (New York, New York 1976-7)

As of mid-January 2014, Bebe Neuwirth will have played all three of the principle female roles in the long-running Broadway Revival of Chicago. She was in the revival's original cast as Velma Kelly, and won the 1997 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. In 2007, Neuwirth did a stint as Roxie Hart, and in 2014, she returned to the show again, this time playing Warden "Mama" Morton.

Has won two Emmys, two Tonys, two Drama Desks, an LA Drama Critics Circle award, an Astaire Award, an Outer Critics Circle award, among others.

She raises money to help stray cats and dogs.

Her husband, Chris Calkins, is the founder of Destino vineyards in Napa Valley.

She claims the role of the hooker teaching Judy Davis how to perform oral sex on a banana in Woody Allen's Người Nổi Tiếng (1998) was written specifically for her.

She had hip replacement surgery in 2006.

Has won two Tony Awards: in 1986 as Best Actress (Featured Role - Musical) for playing Nicki in a revival of "Sweet Charity;" and in 1997 as Best Actress (Musical) for playing Velma Kelly in a revival of "Chicago."

Danced with the Princeton Ballet Company.

She was nominated for the 2021 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Performing Arts category.

She is from a Jewish family (from Austria, Germany, and Russia).

Joined new show, Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005), premiered 3 March 2005. (September 2004)

She was nominated for the 2022 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Performing Arts and Entertainment category.

Filming Le divorce (2003) in Paris. (March 2002)

First name is pronounced "Bee-bee".