Bebe Neuwirth

Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth (/ˈbiːbi ˈnjuːwɜːrθ/; born December 31, 1958) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. On television, she played Lilith Sternin, Frasier Crane\'s wife, on both the TV sitcom Cheers (in a starring role) and its spin-off Frasier (in a recurring guest role). The role won her two Emmy Awards. On stage she played the Tony Award-winning roles of Nickie in the revival of Sweet Charity (1986) and Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago (1996). Other Broadway musical roles include Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (2010). From 2014 to 2017, she starred as Nadine Tolliver in the CBS drama Madam Secretary.\n', ' Neuwirth was born in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of Sydney Anne Neuwirth, a painter, and Lee Paul Neuwirth, a mathematician. She has an older brother Peter, an actuary. Neuwirth is Jewish. \n', ' After graduating from Princeton High School in 1976, having studied ballet from the age of five, she chose it as her field of concentration when she attended Juilliard in New York City in 1976 and 1977, during which time she performed with the Princeton Ballet Company in Peter and the Wolf, The Nutcracker, and Coppélia, also appearing in community theater musicals.\n', '