Who Was Kirstie Alley and how did she die?
Kirstie Alley was an American actress, she died on December 5, 2022, at age 71 years after battling with cancer. According to her children, the cancer had only been recently discovered.
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Her ex-husband Parker Stevenson, her two children, Look Who’s Talking co-star John Travolta, and other celebrities posted their condolences on social media.
After moving to Los Angeles to pursue Scientology and work as an interior designer, Alley appeared as a contestant on the game show Match Game in 1979. She won both rounds, winning $500 in the first round and $5500 in the second round.
She also appeared on the game show Password Plus in 1980. On both shows she described her profession as interior designer. In 1981, an automobile accident involving a drunk driver[3] killed her mother and left her father seriously injured.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Alley appeared in various films, including Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Summer School (1987), Shoot to Kill (1988), Look Who’s Talking (1989) and its two sequels (1990–1993), Madhouse (1990), Sibling Rivalry (1990), Village of the Damned (1995), It Takes Two (1995), Deconstructing Harry (1997), For Richer or Poorer (1997), and Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999).
She won her second Emmy Award in 1994 for the television film David’s Mother.
In 1997, Alley received another Emmy nomination for her work in the crime drama series The Last Don. In 2005, she played a fictionalized version of herself on Showtime’s Fat Actress.
She later appeared on Kirstie Alley’s Big Life (2010), and was a contestant on the 12th season of Dancing with the Stars (2011–2012), finishing in second place.
In 2013, Alley returned to acting with the title role on the sitcom Kirstie. In 2016, she appeared on the Fox comedy horror series Scream Queens.
In 2018, she was a contestant on the 22nd series of the British reality show Celebrity Big Brother, in which she finished as runner-up. In 2022, she appeared on The Masked Singer.
How old was Kirstie Alley?
Kirstie Alley was born on January 12, 1951 and died on December 5, 2022 at the age of 71 years old. She was born in Wichita, Kansas, to Robert Deal Alley, who owned a lumber company, and Lillian Alley.
Kirstie had two siblings, Colette and Craig, She attended Wichita Southeast High School, graduating in 1969, and attended college at Kansas State University, dropping out after her sophomore year.
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