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. —from Bebe's cameo on Will and Grace
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Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth has been around Hollywood and Broadway awhile. Most recently she portrayed Morticia Addams in The Addams Family Musical on Broadway.
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 fame. Some might also know her as Determinator EADA Tracey Kibre of the short-lived Law and Order Trial By Jury.
Despite her age, she has no reservations on donning lingerie - or leotards - for her roles. And her father was a professor at Princeton — all this and brains too! And gams of course.