Alley’s kids True and Lillie Parker mentioned the “fierce” actress died after a brief battle with “recently discovered” most cancers in an announcement posted on social media as we speak.
“She was surrounded by her closest family and fought with great strength, leaving us with a certainty of her never-ending joy of living and whatever adventures lie ahead,” the siblings mentioned.
“As iconic as she was on screen, she was an even more amazing mother and grandmother.”
Alley had a profession that spanned greater than three many years.
She starred reverse Ted Danson as Rebecca Howe on Cheers, the beloved NBC sitcom a couple of Boston bar, from 1987 to 1993.
She joined the present on the peak of its reputation after the departure of unique star Shelley Long.
Alley would win an Emmy for greatest lead actress in a comedy sequence for the function in 1991.
She would take a second Emmy for greatest lead actress in a miniseries or tv film in 1993 for enjoying the title function within the CBS TV film David’s Mother.
She had her personal sitcom on the community, Veronica’s Closet, from 1997 to 2000, the place the portrayed the titular function.
In the 1989 comedy Look Who’s Talking, which gave her a significant profession enhance, she performed the mom of a child whose internal ideas have been voiced by Bruce Willis.
She would additionally seem within the 1990 sequel Look Who’s Talking Too.
John Travolta, her co-star in each movies, paid her tribute in an Instagram publish.
“Kirstie was one of the most special relationships I’ve ever had,” Travolta mentioned, together with a photograph of Alley.
“I love you Kirstie. I know we will see each other again.”
She would play a fictionalized model of herself within the 2005 Showtime sequence Fat Actress, a present that drew comedy from her public and media remedy over her weight achieve and loss.
And in recent times she appeared on a number of actuality exhibits, together with Dancing With the Stars.
A local of Wichita, Kansas, Alley attended Kansas State University earlier than dropping out and shifting to Los Angeles.
Her first tv appearances have been as a sport present contestant, on The Match Game in 1979 and Password in 1980.
She made her movie debut in 1982′s Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan.
