american actress Kirstie Alley, known for works such as Look Who’s Talking (1989) and the series Greetings (1987) died at 71 years old due cancer.
“We are very saddened to report that our amazing, fierce, fierce and loving mother has passed away after a battle with cancer,” her children True and Lillie Parker wrote in a statement posted on social media. The two-time Emmy winner she was surrounded by her closest family and loved ones and “fought hard”.
Alley was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1951. She attended Kansas State University but dropped out to become an interior decorator. In that period, she remembers The New York Times, developed a cocaine addiction. She moved to Los Angeles and enrolled in a rehabilitation program affiliated with the Church of Scientology with the goal of becoming an actress.
His career began in 1982 in cinema Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and continued with films such as story of a rabbit (1985) or Stark: mirror image (1986).
In 1987 she was hired to join it Greetings, one of the most important comedies on American television, in which played Rebecca Howea bar manager who aspires to marry a Boston millionaire.
This role earned him an average of Emmy for Best Lead Actress comic series in 1991 ea golden globe for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Comedy/Musical Television Series, the same year.
Greetings it ran for 11 seasons and the character played by Alley was introduced in the series in the sixth season, at the height of the series, and continued until the end. He came to replace Shelley Long. When the owner of the bar, Sam (Ted Danson) sold it to a large corporation, Alley played the strict manager in charge of running the business, and gradually became a member of the bar gang, in which the actor Woody Harrelson was there too.
Kirstie Alley in ‘Look Who’s Talking Now’, filmed in 1993. Photo: Europa Press
Another of the most remembered projects of the actress was Look Who’s Talking (1989), who starred with John Travolta, and in which Bruce Willis narrates the thoughts of a child. Alley played a single mother who falls in love with a taxi driver in this film, the storyline of which spread over two other films.
But Alley’s career has also been marked by her facet as a producer and similar series Veronica’s Closet (1997-2000), where she played the successful director of a lingerie company, or Fat actress (2005), a forgery reality written by herself inspired by her experience as an actress who did not meet the meager standards of Hollywood.
