Early life

Kirstie Alley was born in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of Lillian Mickie (née Heaton), a homemaker, and Robert Deal Alley, who owned a lumber company. She has two siblings, Colette and Craig. Alley attended Wichita Southeast High School, graduating in 1969. She attended college at Kansas State University in 1969. After moving to Los Angeles to pursue Scientology and work as an interior designer, Alley appeared as a contestant on the popular game show Match Game in 1979 (not during the "Match Game '79" season). She won both rounds winning $500 in the first round and winning $5500 in the second round. She also appeared on the game show Password Plus in 1980. In 1981, a car accident caused by a drunk driver killed her mother and left her father seriously injured. Her father eventually recovered.

Career

Alley made her movie debut in 1982 in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, playing the Vulcan Starfleet officer Lieutenant Saavik. In 1987, she joined the cast of Cheers, replacing Shelley Long and remaining on the show until its eleventh and final season. In 1989, Alley starred with John Travolta in Look Who's Talking, the film grossed over $295,000,000 worldwide. They then went on to make two other films centered around the same theme, Look Who's Talking Too and Look Who's Talking Now!

Alley has won two Emmy Awards during her career. Her first two nominations for her work on Cheers did not earn her the award, but her third, in 1991, garnered her the statuette for that series. In her speech, she thanked then-husband Parker Stevenson, calling him "the man who has given me the big one for the last eight years."

For contributions to the motion picture industry, Alley was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.

Alley played the title character in the NBC sitcom Veronica's Closet, as well as serving as executive producers on the show. She served as the spokesperson for Pier One from 2000-04 and for Jenny Craig from 2005-08.

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

Dancing with the Stars

Main articles: Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 12) and Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 15)

In February 2011, Alley was announced as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. Their first dance, a cha-cha-cha, earned them the second-highest score, 23 points of a possible 30. On May 2011, Alley and Chmerkovskiy performed their final dance, also a cha-cha-cha, which earned them a perfect score of 30 out of 30. Alley finished the competition in second place, behind NFL Super Bowl champion Hines Ward. She also took part in the 15th season of Dancing with the Stars for a second chance to win the mirrorball trophy again with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. They were the seventh couple eliminated from the competition.

Personal life

Alley met and dated a distant cousin, Bob Alley, in high school. They married in 1970. Her husband had the same name as her father. They divorced seven years later as their career paths diverged. Alley was married to her second husband, Parker Stevenson (Richard Stevenson Parker, Jr.) on December 22, 1983. They divorced in 1997. Alley and Stevenson share custody of their two children, William True and Lillie Price.

Weight gain and loss

On September 17, 2012, Alley appeared on The Dr. Oz Show where she admitted that she started gaining weight in late 2003. Alley claimed she spent her whole life eating obsessively without gaining weight, and only noticed a change in her body after she went into early menopause in 1992.

While working as a Jenny Craig spokesperson from 2004 to 2007, Alley lost 75 pounds (34 kg), bringing her weight down to 145 pounds (66 kg).

In May, 2009, Alley told People magazine that, after parting ways with Jenny Craig, she gained 83 pounds (38 kg), and weighed as much as 228 pounds (103 kg).

In September, 2011, Alley announced that she had lost 100 pounds (45 kg) using weight loss products from Organic Liaison, a company she had founded in 2010. In 2012, Alley faced a class-action false advertising lawsuit alleging that her claim was misleading, and that her weight loss was instead the result of exercise, including training for the TV show "Dancing With the Stars." In 2013, Alley settled the suit, agreeing to remove the term “Proven Products” from packaging, issue a disclaimer on the brand’s website that it is a “calorie-based weight-loss product,” and pay a $130,000 settlement.

In April, 2014, Alley reunited with Jenny Craig, as spokesperson, and the Organic Liaison product line was acquired by Jenny Craig's parent company, and subsequently integrated into Jenny Craig's product line. In January, 2015, Alley announced that, since starting the Jenny Craig weight-loss program again, she had lost 50 pounds (23 kg).

Scientology

Alley was raised as a Methodist but became a member of the Church of Scientology in 1979. At the time she became a Scientologist, Alley admitted to having had a cocaine addiction and went through Narconon, a Scientology-affiliated drug treatment program, to end her dependency. She has continued her Scientology training and, as of 2007, has attained the level of OT VII (Operating Thetan Level 7).

In May 2000, she purchased a 5,200 sq ft (480 m2) waterfront mansion from fellow Scientologist Lisa Marie Presley for $1.5 million. The house is in Clearwater, Florida, the spiritual headquarters of the Church of Scientology. In 2007 Alley donated $5 million to the Church.

After fellow actress Leah Remini left the Church of Scientology in 2013, Alley publicly denounced Remini as "a repulsive bigot" and declared her former friend was now "my enemy".

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	Lt. Saavik	Nominee—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
1983	One More Chance	Sheila
1983	Champions	Barbara
1984	Blind Date	Claire Simpson
1984	Runaway	Jackie Rogers	Nominee—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress
1987	Summer School	Ms. Robin Bishop
1988	Shoot to Kill	Sarah Renell	Also known as Deadly Pursuit
1989	Look Who's Talking	Mollie Jensen
1989	Loverboy	Dr. Joyce Palmer
1990	Madhouse	Jessie Bannister
1990	Look Who's Talking Too	Mollie Ubriacco
1990	Sibling Rivalry	Marjorie Turner
1993	Look Who's Talking Now	Mollie Ubriacco
1994	3 Chains o' Gold	Vanessa Bartholomew
1995	Village of the Damned	Dr. Susan Verner
1995	It Takes Two	Diane Barrows
1997	Deconstructing Harry	Joan
1997	Toothless	Dr. Katherine Lewis
1997	For Richer or Poorer	Caroline Sexton
1999	Drop-Dead Gorgeous	Gladys Leeman
2002	Back by Midnight	Gloria Beaumont
2004	Family Sins	Brenda Geck
2013	Syrup	Herself
2013	Baby Sellers	Carla Huxley
2015	Accidental Love	Aunt Rita

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Match Game	Self (contestant)
1980	Password Plus	Self (contestant)
1983	Masquerade	Casey Collins	(2 episodes)
1984	Sins of the Past	Patrice Cantwell
1985	Bunny's Tale, AA Bunny's Tale	Gloria Steinem
1985	Hitchhiker, TheThe Hitchhiker	Angelica	Episode: "Out of the Night" Nominee—CableACE Award for Actress in a Dramatic Series
1985	North and South	Virgilia Hazard	(miniseries)
1986	North and South II	Virgilia Hazard	(miniseries)
1986	Stark: Mirror Image	Maggie Carter
1986	Prince of Bel Air	Jamie Harrison
1987	Hitchhiker, TheThe Hitchhiker	Jane L.	Episode: "The Legendary Billy B."
1987	Infidelity	Eliot 'Ellie' Denato
1987-1993	Cheers	Rebecca Howe	Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series (1991) Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy (1991) Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series (1988, 1990, 1992, 1993) Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy (1990, 1992, 1993)
1990	The Earth Day Special	Rebecca Howe
1991-1993	Saturday Night Live	Herself (Host)
1994	David's Mother	Sally Goodson	Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Film
1996	Peter and the Wolf	Annie / Bird / Duck / Cat
1996	Radiant City	Gloria Goodman
1996	Suddenly	Marty Doyle
1997	Last Don, TheThe Last Don	Rose Marie Clericuzio	(miniseries) Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie
1997	Toothless	Dr. Katherine Lewis	(TV movie)
1997-2000	Veronica's Closet	Veronica Chase	(also producer) Nominated—Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series (1998) Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy (1998) Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
1998	Last Don II, TheThe Last Don II	Rose Marie Clericuzio	(miniseries)
2001	Blonde	Elsie	(miniseries)
2002	Salem Witch Trials	Ann Putnam	(miniseries)
2003	Profoundly Normal	Donna Lee Shelby Thornton	(also executive producer)
2004	Family Sins	Brenda Geck
2004	While I Was Gone	Jo Beckett
2004	Without a Trace	Noreen Raab	Episode: "Risen"
2005	Fat Actress	Self	(also joint creator and co-writer w/Brenda Hampton) (7 episodes)
2006	The King of Queens	Self	Episode: "Apartment Complex"
2007	Write & Wrong	Byrdie Langdon
2007	The Minister of Divine	Sydney Hudson	Pilot based on the British series The Vicar of Dibley.
2010	Marriage Ref, TheThe Marriage Ref	Self (guest judge)
2010	Kirstie Alley's Big Life	Self (documentee)	Reality television
2011-2012	Dancing with the Stars	Self (contestant)	Season 12 & Season 15: All-Stars Reality Television
2012	The Manzanis	Angela	Pilot
2013-2014	Kirstie	Maddie Banks
2014	Hot in Cleveland	Maddie Banks	Episode: "Bucket: We're Going to New York"
2015	The Middle	Pam Staggs	Episode: "Pam Freakin' Staggs"
2015	Time Crashers	Herself	British reality series
2016	Flaked	Jackie

[ Source: Wikipedia ]