Kirstie Alley Biography, Age, Career, Marital Status, Salary and Net Worth

Who is Kirstie Alley?

Kirstie Louise Alley is an American professional actress, producer, model, and television personality. Her breakthrough role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987-1993), earning an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991 for the role. She starred in the sitcom Veronica’s Closet, receiving more Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

Alley appeared in various movies in the 1980s and 1990s including Summer School (1987), Shoot to Kill (1988), Look Who’s Talking (1989), and its two sequels (1990-1993). As well as Madhouse (1990), Siblng Rivalry (1990), Village of the Damned (1995), It Takes Two (1995), Deconstructing Harry (1997), For Richer or Poorer (1997), and Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). Alley won her second Emmy Award in 1994 for the TV movie David’s Mother. She then received a further Emmy nomination for her work n the crime drama series The Last Don in 1997.

Later she played a fictionalized version of herself on Showtime’s Fat Actress in 2005. Alley then appeared on Kirstie Alley’s Big Life (2010), and was a contestant on the 12th season of Dancing with the Stars (2011-2012) completing in second place. She went back to acting in the title role on the sitcom Kirstie, in 2013. Alley then appeared on the Fox comedy horror series Scream Queens in 2016. In 2018, she was a contestant on the 22nd series of the British reality show Celebrity Big Brother, finishing as runner-up.

How old is Kirstie Alley?

Kirstie Louise Alley is aged 71 as of 2022, having been born on January 12, 1951, in Wichita, Kansas, U.S. She shares her birthday with famous people including Zayn Malik, Jeff Bezos, Naya Rivera, Joe Frazier, Gemma Arterton, Swami Vivekananda, Melanie Chisholm, Oliver Platt, among others.

Kirstie Alley Family

Who are Kirstie Alley’s parents?

Kirstie Louise Alley was born to Robert Deal Alley and Lilian Alley in Wichita Kansas. Her father owned a lumber company, got seriously injured and her mother was killed in an automobile accident involving a drunk driver in 1981.

Does Kirstie Alley have siblings?

Alley was born in a family of three children and has three siblings, Colette Alley and Craig Alley.

Kirstie Alley Education

Alley studied at Wichita Southeast High School and graduated in 1969. She then attended Kansas State University for her college education but dropped out after her sophomore year.

Kirstie Alley Interest

Alley is an interior designer in profession. She has appeared as a contestant on the game show Match Game in 1979, winning in two rounds. In the first round, she won $500, and in the second round $5500. Additionally, in 1980, she appeared on the game show Password Plus.

Kirstie was brought up as a Methodist, later turning into a member of the Church of Scientology in 1979. She became a Scientologist, at the same time she admitted to having had a cocaine addiction and went through Narconon, a Scientology-affiliated drug treatment program. Alley has studied Scientology and attained the level of OT VII (Operating Thetan Level 7) as of 2007. She has bought a mansion from former Scientologist Lisa Marie Presley in Clearwater, Florida, the spiritual headquarters of the Church of Scientology. Later in 2007, she donated $5 million to the church.

Politically, she supported Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani on April 8, 2016, via Twitter. She also voted for Trump in 2016 and planned to vote for him again in 2020. Alley endorsed John James in the 2020 United States Senate election in Michigan. She was also supporting the protestors who stormed the Capitol during the 2021 United States Capitol attack on January 6, 2021.

Kirstie Alley Spouse

Alley has been married twice all marriages ending in a divorce. Initially, she was married to her high school sweetheart Bob Alley from 1970 to 1977. She then married Parker Stevenson, an actor, on December 22, 1983, but their marriage ended in 1997. Alley lived in a 21-bedroom summer house in Isleboro, Maine, the Mitchell Cottage, from 1991 to 2020, formerly the Isleboro Inn.

Kirstie Alley Children

Alley does not have any children of her own after a miscarriage when married to Parker. They adopted son William one week following his October 5, 1992 birth, and later adopted daughter Lillie in 1995. Alley became a grandmother in 2016 after her son had a baby boy of his own, Waylon Tripp Parker.

Kirstie Alley Height

Alley has a sexy, and beautiful body, adding up to an average height of 5 ft 7 in (1.7 m) and a moderate weight of 70 kg (154.32 lbs).

Kirstie Alley career

1976-1989

Alley made her movie debut in 1982 in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, playing the Vulcan Starfleet officer Lieutenant Saavik. However, she chose not to reprise the role in the following two sequels, later stating she was offered less money than for Star Trek II. In the following years, she starred in a number of smaller movies such as One More Chance, Runaway, and Blind Date. Alley portrayed Virgilia Hazard in the ABC miniseries North and South, books I and II in 1985.

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Alley starred together with Mark Harmon in 1987 in the comedy film Summer School. The movie was a box office success, grossing over $35 million in the United States. Later on, she joined the cast of NBC sitcom Cheers, replacing Shelley Long and remaining with the show until its eleventh and final season. Alley then starred with John Travolta in Look Who’s Talking in 1989. The movie grossed more than $295 million worldwide. They later carried on and made two other movies on the same theme, Look Who’s Talking Too and Look Who’s Talking Now!

1990-present

Her performance won her two Emmy Awards. Following two nominations for her performance on Cheers, in 1988 and 1990, Alley won her third award in 1991. Alley then received her second for the 1994 TV movie David’s mother. For her contributions to the movie industry, she earned a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in 1995. She played the title character in the NBC sitcom Veronica’s Closet from 1997 to 2000 and also served as executive producer on the show. From 2000 to 2004, she worked as the spokesperson for Pier One and from 2005 to 2008 for Jenny Craig.

TV Land then aired a sitcom that centered on Alley as a Broadway star and a new parent. It was called Kirstie and reunited her with former Cheers co-star Rhea Perlman and Seinfeld star Michael Richards. The series then premiered on December 4, 2013, and ran for one season prior to being canceled, five months after concluding its freshman run.

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Alley was revealed as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars in February 2011. She was then partnered with Maksim Chmerkovskiy and on their first dance, cha-cha-cha, they got the second-highest score, 23 points out of a possible 30. They later performed their last dance, also a cha-cha-cha, receiving a perfect score of 30 out of 30 in May. She completed the competition in second place, following NFL Super Bowl champion Hines Ward. Alley also participated in the 15th season of Dancing with the Stars for a second chance to win the mirrorball trophy again with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. The duo was the seventh couple eliminated from the competition. She later competed in season seven of The Masked Singer as ”Baby Mammoth” of Team Cuddly in 2022.

Kirstie Alley Net Worth

American actress, producer, model, and television personality, Alley, has been active from 1976 to the present. She has appeared in numerous films and television shows throughout her career. Alley has garnered an accumulative net worth of approximately $40 million as of 2022.