Bebe Neuwirth Bio | Wiki
Bebe Neuwirth is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is known for her roles on stage and screen and has received two Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Drama Desk Award. Bebe made her Broadway debut in the musical A Chorus Line in 1980.
She went on to receive two Tony Awards, the first for Best Actress in a Musical playing Nickie in the revival of Sweet Charity. She received her second for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago (1996).
Bebe Neuwirth Age
Bebe was born on December 31, 1958, in Newark, New Jersey, United States. She is 64 years old.
Bebe Neuwirth Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 4 in (Approx. 1.63 m).
Bebe Neuwirth Family
She was born in Newark, New Jersey, to her parents Lee Neuwirth and Sydney Anne Neuwirth. Bebe’s father was a mathematician who taught at Princeton University and also designed an encryption device while working at the Institute for Defense Analyses.
Her mother is a painter who also danced as an amateur for the Princeton Regional Ballet Company. Bebe has an older brother Peter, a mathematician. In her youth, she rebelled against authority, being placed in custody for smoking marijuana when she was 13.
Bebe Neuwirth Husband
Bebe married Paul Dorman in 1984. She met him in 1982 after she performed a revue at O’Neal’s restaurant in New York, where he was bartending. The two divorced in 1991. In 2009, Bebe married director, producer, and writer Chris Calkins at The Players club in Manhattan, in a ceremony officiated by actor Peter Coyote.
Bebe Neuwirth Education
After graduating from Princeton High School in 1976, Bebe attended the Juilliard School for dance and left after only a year. Immediately after leaving Juilliard in 1977, she took singing and jazz classes at a New York City-based YWCA. Bebe performed with the Princeton Ballet Company in Peter and the Wolf, The Nutcracker, and Coppélia, also appearing in community theater musicals.
Bebe Neuwirth Movies And Tv Shows
2013–2019 Blue Bloods
2014–2017 Madam Secretary
2014 Over the Garden Wall
2017 New York Is Dead
2017 The President Show
2018–2021 The Good Fight
2020 DuckTales
2020 The Flight Attendant
2021 Ultra City Smiths
2021 Teenage Euthanasia
2022 Julia
2004 The Big Bounce
2005 Game 6
2008 Adopt a Sailor
2009 Fame
2017 Humor Me
2019 Jumanji: The Next Level
2020 Modern Persuasion
2021 Tick, Tick… Boom!
Bebe Neuwirth Jumanji
She portrayed Nora Shepherd in the original Jumanji (1995) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). Bebe 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.
Bebe Neuwirth Chicago
1996 saw Bebe play Velma Kelly in the Broadway revival of Chicago. The role brought her her greatest stage recognition to date and several awards including a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.
Bebe would later return to the revival of Chicago in 2006, this time as Roxie Hart. In 2014 she returned again, playing “Mama” Morton, making her the first person to play three different characters at three separate times during the course of a single Broadway run.
Bebe Neuwirth Cheers
She auditioned for the role of Dr. Lilith Sternin in the television series Cheers. At the time, Bebe was not interested in doing television work and her character was initially planned to be in only one episode of the series.
However, the writers enjoyed writing her dialogue so much that she was written into more episodes of the show, eventually making her one of the series’ recurring actors. Bebe left Cheers in 1993 to go back to her career in dancing but would make more television appearances in other shows and commercials
Bebe Neuwirth Morticia
In 2010, Bebe returned to Broadway to create the role of Morticia Addams in the original production of The Addams Family opposite Nathan Lane. Morticia is a fictional character from the Addams Family multimedia franchise created by American Charles Addams in 1933. She plays the role of the family’s reserved matriarch.
Bebe Neuwirth Blue Bloods
Bebe had a recurring role as Kelly Peterson on Blue Bloods, an American police procedural drama television series. It has been airing on CBS since September 2010. Its main characters are members of the fictional Reagan family, an Irish-American Catholic family in New York City with a history of work in law enforcement.
Bebe Neuwirth Madam Secretary
She starred as Nadine Tolliver in the 2014 CBS political drama Madam Secretary. The series stars Téa Leoni as Elizabeth McCord, a former CIA analyst and political science professor who becomes the United States Secretary of State. It ran on CBS from September 21, 2014, to December 8, 2019, for a total of 120 episodes aired. The series was renewed for a final 10-episode sixth season in May 2019, which premiered on October 6, 2019.
Bebe Neuwirth Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Bebe’s estimated net worth is $10 million.
How Old Is Bebe Neuwirth
She is 64 years old. Bebe was born on December 31, 1958, in Newark, New Jersey, United States.