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Bebe Neuwirth

Also Credited As: Beatrice Neuwirth

Date of Birth: December 31, 1958 (64)

Birth Place: Princeton, NJ, USA

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Bebe Neuwirth BIO

Neuwirth began to study dance at the age of five, and chose it as her field of concentration when she attended Juilliard in New York City in 1976 and 1977. During this period, she performed with the Princeton Ballet Company in Peter and the Wolf, The Nutcracker, and Coppelia and appeared in community theater musicals.



Neuwirth made her Broadway debut in the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line in 1980. She has been featured in revivals of Little Me (1982) Sweet Charity (1986), for which she received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Damn Yankees (1994). It was with the 1996 revival of Chicago, in which she starred as showgirl and killer Velma Kelly, that she gained her greatest stage recognition. Her performance garnered her Tony and Drama Desk Awards as Best Lead Actress in a Musical. She voiced Binky in the series CyberChase. In 2004 she mounted a show, Here Lies Jenny, that featured songs by Kurt Weill, sung and danced by Neuwirth and a four-person supporting cast, as part of an unspoken ambiguous story in an anonymous seedy bar possibly in Berlin in the 1930s. This show was performed in the Zipper Theater on W. 37 St. in New York, initially only at 11 p.m. on weekends. It was eventually expanded to include an earlier show. Here Lies Jenny was also presented by Ms. Neuwirth in San Francisco in 2005. On December 31, 2006, her 48th birthday, Neuwirth returned to the still-running Broadway production of Chicago, this time in the role of Roxie Hart. Neuwirth recently did a reading for the upcoming musical adaption of The Addams Family as Morticia opposite Nathan Lane. The show is currently scheduled to debut next year with a 2010 Broadway opening.



Her screen credits include Green Card, Bugsy, Say Anything, Jumanji, Summer of Sam, Liberty Heights, Tadpole (for which the Seattle Film Critics named her Best Supporting Actress), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Faculty and Woody Allen's Celebrity.



On television, Neuwirth had a recurring role from 1986 to 1993 as Dr. Lilith Sternin, the conservatively dressed and emotionally repressed psychiatrist who married Dr. Frasier Crane on the hit comedy series Cheers. She auditioned for this role with her arm in a sling, following a fall a week earlier. She won two Emmy Awards for the role, in 1990 and 1991. The character also made an appearance in the series Wings and 11 episodes of the Cheers spin-off Frasier, which earned her a 1995 Emmy Award nomination as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series. Her additional small screen credits include three short-lived dramatic series, Deadline (2000), Hack (2003) and Law & Order: Trial by Jury in (2005), as well as the miniseries Wild Palms and an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She has appeared as herself in episodes of Will and Grace, Strangers with Candy and Celebrity Jeopardy!.

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Bebe Neuwirth STAGE CREDITS

Hey, Look Me Over! Hey, Look Me Over!
[Off-Broadway]
City Center Encores! Production, 2018
Mimi
Golden Age Golden Age
[Off-Broadway]
Manhattan Theatre Club Production, 2012
Maria Malibran
A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream
[Off-Broadway]
Classic Stage Company Production, 2012
Titania
The Addams Family The Addams Family
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 2010
Morticia Addams
Here Lies Jenny
[Off-Broadway]
Original Off-Broadway Production, 2004
Performer
Jenny
The 24 Hour Plays 2003
[Broadway]
Special Benefit Production, 2003
Carla
Writer's Block
[Off-Broadway]
2003
Sheila
The Exonerated
[Off-Broadway]
2002
Performer [Replacement]
Funny Girl
[Broadway]
Actors' Fund Concert, 2002
Fanny Brice
Everett Beekin
[Off-Broadway]
2001
Performer
The Threepenny Opera
[San Francisco (Regional)]
ACT Production, 1999
Jenny
Fosse
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1999
Performer [Replacement]
Over and Over
[Regional (US)]
World Premiere, 1999
Sabina [Replacement]
Chicago Chicago
[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 1996
Velma Kelly [Replacement]
Matron "Mama" Morton [Replacement]
Velma Kelly
Roxie Hart [Replacement]
Chicago
[Off-Broadway]
Encores! Concert, 1996
Velma Kelly
Pal Joey
[Off-Broadway]
Encores! Concert, 1995
Melba Snyder
Damn Yankees
[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 1994
Lola
Kiss of the Spider Woman
[West End]
London Production, 1992
Spider Woman/Aurora [Replacement]
Sweet Charity
[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 1986
Nickie
Charity (Standby)
Upstairs at O'Neals
[Off-Broadway]
1982
Performer
Upstairs at O'Neals'
[Off-Broadway]
Original Off-Broadway Production, 1982
Performer
Little Me
[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 1982
Ensemble
Boom Boom Girl
Dancin'
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1978
Performer [Replacement]
A Chorus Line
[Broadway]
Broadway Transfer, 1975
Sheila Bryant [Replacement]
Cassie Ferguson (Understudy) [Replacement]
Chicago
[Los Angeles]
West Coast Revival, 1992
Velma Kelly

Bebe Neuwirth Movies

[1989]Say Anything Mrs. Evans

[1990]Green Card Lauren

[1991]Bugsy Countess di Frso

[1992]The Paint Job Margaret

[1993]Malice Dana

[1995]Jumanji Nora Shepherd

[1996]All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 Anabelle

[1996]The Associate Camille

[1996]The Adventures of Pinocchio Felinet

[1998]The Faculty Principal Valerie Drake

[1998]Celebrity Nina - the Hooker

[1999]Liberty Heights Ada Kurtzman

[1999]Getting to Know You Trix

[1999]Summer of Sam Gloria

[2002]Tadpole Diane Lodder, Eve's friend

[2003]The Divorce Julia Manchevering

[2003]How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days Lana Jong

[2004]The Big Bounce Alison Ritchie

[2005]Game 6 Joanna Bourne

[2008]Adopt a Sailor Patricia

[2009]Fame Ms. Kraft

[2017]Humor Me CC Rudin

[2019]Jumanji: The Next Level Nora

[2020]Modern Persuasion Vanessa Perry

[2021]tick, tick... BOOM! Sunday Legend #9


Bebe Neuwirth TV Shows

Aladdin Mirage

All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series Annabelle

Blue Bloods Kelly Peterson

Bored to Death Caroline Taylor

Cheers Dr. Lilith Sternin

Deadline Nikki Masucci

Frasier Dr. Lilith Sternin

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Bureau Chief ADA Tracey Kibre, Nina Laszlo

Law & Order: Trial by Jury Bureau Chief ADA Tracey Kibre

Madam Secretary Nadine Tolliver

Pepper Ann Ms. Bladdar

The Good Fight Judge Claudia Friend

The Good Wife Judge Claudia Friend

Bebe Neuwirth Awards and Nominations

Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2010 - Outstanding Actress in a Musical

Bebe Neuwirth, The Addams Family

Drama League Awards - 1997 - Distinguished Performance Award

Bebe Neuwirth, Chicago

Outer Critics Circle Awards - 1997 - Best Actress - Musical

Bebe Neuwirth, Chicago

Tony Awards - 1997 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Bebe Neuwirth, Chicago

Drama Desk Awards - 1996 - Outstanding Actress - Musical

Bebe Neuwirth, Chicago

Tony Awards - 1986 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Bebe Neuwirth, Sweet Charity

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Bebe Neuwirth FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How many Broadway shows has Bebe Neuwirth been in?

Bebe Neuwirth has appeared on Broadway in 10 shows.

How many West End shows has Bebe Neuwirth been in?

Bebe Neuwirth has appeared on London's West End in 1 shows.

What was Bebe Neuwirth's first West End show?

Bebe Neuwirth's first West End show was Kiss of the Spider Woman which opened in 1992

What awards has Bebe Neuwirth been nominated for?

Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for The Addams Family , Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) for Chicago , Best Actress - Musical (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Chicago , Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Tony Awards) for Chicago Outstanding Actress - Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for Chicago and Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Tony Awards) for Sweet Charity .

What awards has Bebe Neuwirth won?

Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) for Chicago, Best Actress - Musical (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Chicago, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Tony Awards) for Chicago Outstanding Actress - Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for Chicagoand Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical (Tony Awards) for Sweet Charity.

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