Creator / Bebe Neuwirth

Bebe Neuwirth: Look, you guys, you guys are freaks, man. I'm not Lilith, I'm Bebe. I'm an actress. I sing. I'm a Broadway dancer. Look at these pins. You know any 40-year-olds who can wrap their legs around their necks? Look, these babies worked for me before Frasier, they're gonna work for me afterwards. So don't you worry about Lilith.

Karen: You mean Bebe.

Neuwirth: No, I mean Lilith. I want to play that bitch forever!... Frasier is such an easy gig, man! They fly you first class to Los Angeles, put you up in the Bel Air Hotel, per diem. I deliver several lines in a robotic monotone and I'm buyin' a new Lexus!

— from Neuwirth's cameo on Will & Grace

Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958 in Newark, New Jersey) has been around Hollywood and Broadway for a while.

Trained as a dancer, Neuwirth made her New York debut in A Chorus Line and later won awards for her roles in revivals of Sweet Charity and Chicago. It helped that she had previously worked with Bob Fosse.

However, most of the world knows her as Dr. Lilith Sternin of Cheers and (occasionally) Frasier. Some might also know her as the Determinator ADA Tracey Kibre of Law & Order: Trial by Jury, or as Faith O'Connor, Mike Olshansky's girlfriend in Hack, or maybe as Nadine Tolliver, Secretary McCord's Chief of Staff in Madam Secretary. Younger viewers might remember her from the sequel and TV series to All Dogs Go to Heaven as both Annabelle the archangel and her demonic cousin Belladonna, as well as from Cartoon Network's Over the Garden Wall as Marguerrite Grey.

She also headlined The Addams Family on Broadway as Morticia Addams, opposite Nathan Lane as Gomez Addams. A failed television pilot starring Neuwirth, Dear Diary, was shown in theaters and won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

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Works Bebe Neuwirth has appeared in on this wiki:

Film roles

• Say Anything... (1989) as Mrs. Evans
• Green Card (1990) as Lauren
• Without Her Consent (1990) as Gloria Allred
• Bugsy (1992) as Countess di Frasso
• Malice (1993) as Det. Dana Harris
• Jumanji (1995) as Nora Shepherd
  • Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
• The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) as Felinet
• The Associate (1996) as Camille Scott
• Dear Diary (1996) as Annie
• Celebrity (1996) as Nina
• The Faculty (1998) as Principal Valerie Drake
• Summer of Sam (1999) as Gloria
• Liberty Heights (1999) as Ada Kurtzman
• Tadpole (2002) as Diane Lodder
• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) as Lana Jong
• Fame (2009) as Ms. Kraft
• tick, tick... BOOM! (2021) as "Sunday" Legend

Television roles

• Cheers (80 episodes, 1986–93) as Dr. Lilith Sternin
  • The Magical World of Disney (1 episode, 1990)
  • Wings (1 episode, 1992)
  • Frasier (12 episodes, 1994–2003)
  • Frasier (2023) (1 episode, 2023)
• Simon & Simon (1 episode, 1986) as Receptionist
• Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, 1991) as Lanel
• Wild Palms (5 episodes, 1993) as Tabba Schwartzkopf
• The Adventures of Pete & Pete (2 episodes, 1994) as Mailwoman McGinty
• NewsRadio (1 episode, 1995) as Sandi Angelini
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1 episode, 1999) as Juliette
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 episode, 1999) as Nina Laszlo
• Strangers with Candy (1 episode, 2000) as Herself
• Hack (5 episodes, 2003) as Faith O'Connor
• Will & Grace (1 episode, 2004) as Herself
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury (13 episodes, 2005–06) as ADA Tracey Kibre
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 episode, 2005)
• Bored to Death (3 episodes, 2009–11) as Caroline Taylor
• The Good Wife (3 episodes, 2012–13) as Judge Claudia Friend
  • The Good Fight (2 episodes, 2018–21)
• Blue Bloods (9 episodes, 2013–19) as Kelly Peterson
• Madam Secretary (71 episodes, 2014–17) as Nadine Tolliver
• The President Show (1 episode, 2017) as Herself
• The Flight Attendant (recurring, 2020– ) as Diana Carlisle

Voice roles

• All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996) as Annabelle, the Dog Angel
• An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000) as Sylvia Marpole
• Aladdin: The Series (6 episodes, 1994–95) as Mirage
• Duckman (1 episode, 1996) as Tamara La Boinque
• Freakazoid! (1 episode, 1996) as Deadpan
• The Magic School Bus (1 episode, 1997) as Flora Whiff
• Jungle Cubs (1 episode, 1997) as La La
• Pepper Ann (3 episodes, 1997–98) as Ms. Bladdar
• Cyberchase (2 episodes, 2002–03) as Binky the Cat
• The Cleveland Show (1 episode, 2010) as Sarah Friedman
• Over the Garden Wall (1 episode, 2014) as Margueritte Grey
• DuckTales (1 episode, 2020) as Emma Glamour
• The Sandman (2020) as the Siamese Cat (Act I) and Bast (Act II)
• Ultra City Smiths (5 episodes, 2021) as Lady Andrea the Giant
• Teenage Euthanasia (7 episodes, 2021) as Baba

Theatre roles

• A Chorus Line (1980) as Sheila
• Sweet Charity (1986) as Nickie
• Chicago (1992, 1996) as Velma Kelly; (2006) as Roxie Hart; (2014) as Matron "Mama" Morton
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (1992) as Spider Woman/Aurora
• Damn Yankees (1994) as Lola
• The Threepenny Opera (1999) as Jenny Diver
• Funny Girl (2002) as Fanny Brice
• The Addams Family (2009–10) as Morticia Addams
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (2012) as Hippolyta / Titania

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