1. Beatrice "Bebe" Jane Neuwirth is an American actress, singer, and dancer.
28 Facts About Bebe Neuwirth
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Bebe Neuwirth went on to receive two Tony Awards, the first for Best Featured Actress in a Musical playing Nickie in the revival of Sweet Charity and received her second for Best Actress in a Musical for Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago.
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Bebe Neuwirth has starred as Lola in the revival of Damn Yankees and Morticia Addams in The Addams Family.
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Bebe Neuwirth was nominated for another Tony Award for her performance as Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret.
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Bebe Neuwirth starred as Nadine Tolliver on the CBS political drama Madam Secretary from 2014 to 2017.
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Bebe Neuwirth appeared in recurring roles on Blue Bloods, The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and Julia.
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Bebe Neuwirth's father, Lee Neuwirth, was a mathematician who taught at Princeton University and designed an encryption device while working at the Institute for Defense Analyses.
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Bebe Neuwirth's mother, Sydney Anne Neuwirth, is a painter who danced as an amateur for the Princeton Regional Ballet Company.
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Bebe Neuwirth has an older brother, Peter, a mathematician and actuary who graduated from Harvard.
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Bebe Neuwirth attended Chapin School and Princeton Day School, and Princeton High School.
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Bebe Neuwirth started taking ballet lessons at the age of five, a year after viewing a production of The Nutcracker with her mother.
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Bebe Neuwirth desired to be a ballet dancer until her early teens, when she realized how restricted her technique was, as well as the standard of ballet education where she lived.
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Bebe Neuwirth performed with the Princeton Ballet Company in Peter and the Wolf, The Nutcracker, and Coppelia, appearing in community theater musicals.
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Bebe Neuwirth later appeared in revivals of Little Me ; Sweet Charity, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the 40th Tony Awards; and Damn Yankees.
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Bebe Neuwirth appeared in the musical revue Here Lies Jenny which featured songs by Kurt Weill sung and danced by Neuwirth and a four-person supporting cast, as part of an unspoken ambiguous story in an anonymous seedy bar possibly in Berlin in the 1930s.
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In 2009, Bebe Neuwirth toured a one-woman cabaret show with pianist Scott Cady.
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In 2019, Bebe Neuwirth returned to the stage with the Philadelphia Theatre Company, appearing in A Small Fire at the Suzanne Roberts Theater in Philadelphia.
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At the time, Bebe Neuwirth was not interested in doing television work and her character was initially planned to be in only one episode of the series.
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Bebe Neuwirth auditioned for the role with her arm in a sling, following a fall a week earlier.
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Bebe Neuwirth won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for the role, in 1990 and 1991.
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Bebe Neuwirth left Cheers in 1993 to go back to her career in dancing, but would make more television appearances in other shows and commercials.
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Bebe Neuwirth had a recurring role as Caroline Taylor, the literary editor of Jonathan Ames, on the HBO series Bored to Death.
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Bebe Neuwirth starred as Nadine Tolliver in the 2014 CBS political drama Madam Secretary.
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In October 2017, Bebe Neuwirth announced her decision to leave the series after four seasons.
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Bebe Neuwirth later reprised the role of Nora Shepherd in Jumanji: The Next Level in 2019; the film grossed 800 million dollars worldwide and received positive reviews from critics.
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Bebe Neuwirth met him in 1982 after she performed in Upstairs at O'Neal's, a revue at O'Neal's restaurant in New York, where he was bartending.
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Bebe Neuwirth has supported and worked for several non-profit charity organizations.
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Bebe Neuwirth currently serves as vice chair on the board of trustees for The Actors Fund.