Biography
Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She has worked in television and is known for her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin, Dr. Frasier Crane's wife (later ex-wife), on both the TV sitcom Cheers (in a starring role), and its spin-off Frasier (in a recurring guest role). On stage, she is also known for originating the role of Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago and for the role of Morticia Addams in The Addams Family musical.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Broadway’s Leading Ladies
2025
Broadway’s Leading Ladies is a celebration of the profound influence and enduring legacy women have made in theater. Will be broadcasted on PBS.

tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
as "Sunday" Legend #9
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.

Modern Persuasion
2020
as Vanessa PErry
A single woman focused on her career in New York is forced to deal with the aftermath of a failed relationship when an ex-boyfriend is hired by her co...

Jumanji: The Next Level
2019
as Nora
As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown a...

Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
as Self
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.

Humor Me
2017
as C.C. Rudin
With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community.

Jerome's Bouquet
2013
Director
82 year-old Elena Klein, a retired New York florist, can't stop arranging — only now it's not flowers she's arranging, but people's lives.

Browsers
2013
as Julianna Mancuso-Bruni
Set in contemporary Manhattan, it follows four young people as they start their first jobs at a news website.

Just Gender
2013
Just Gender tackles the little understood world of transgender people. Although Just Gender utilizes some archival footage and stills, it is largely b...

Cabaret: The Musical That Changed Musicals
2013
as Self
On the film's 40th anniversary, the cast and crew of Cabaret look back at the creation of this cinematic landmark, winner of 8 Academy Awards and the ...
Defiant Requiem
2012
as (voice)
A memorial concert reawakens the story of an artistic uprising in the Nazi concentration camp, Terezin, where a chorus of 150 inmates confronts the Na...

Fame
2009
as Ms. Kraft
At New York's High School of Performing Arts, students from all walks of life get the chance to hone their skills as singers, actors, dancers, and mor...

Adopt a Sailor
2008
as Patricia
Adopt A Sailor is about Patricia and Richard, a successful and hip couple from New York City who inadvertently "adopt a sailor" during Fleet Week in N...

Chicago: The Musical
2006
Companion DVD to the 10th Anniversary Edition of the 1997 Broadway revival cast album. The disc includes interviews with the creators and cast members...

Game 6
2006
as Joanna Bourne
Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening...

Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
as Host (segment "All Singing, All Dancing")
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on ope...
Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter
2004
as Dr. Lilith Sternin
Frasier Crane visits his therapist and reminisces over the events of the past 11 years since his move from Boston to Seattle, in a clip show designed ...

The Big Bounce
2004
as Alison Ritchie
A small-time con artist and a Hawaiian real estate developer's mischievous, enterprising mistress team up for a potential $200,000 score.

Le Divorce
2003
as Julia Manchevering
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
2003
as Thumbelina's Mother (voice)
Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are to...

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2003
as Lana Jong
It's the battle of wills, as Andie needs to prove she can dump a guy in 10 days, whereas Ben needs to prove he can win a girl in 10 days. Now, the clo...

Tadpole
2002
as Diane Lodder
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, an...

Sounds from a Town I Love
2001
A montage of short scenes of New Yorkers talking on their cellphones, evoking snippets of conversation overheard in passing on the streets of Manhatta...

The Concert for New York City
2001
The Concert for New York City took place on October 20, 2001 at Madison Square Garden. It was a celebration of the strength of New York and a thank-yo...

My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs
2001
as Self - Performer
Live from Carnegie Hall and hosted by Julie Andrews, a host of glittering Broadway stars sing Broadway's best and most enduring love songs. This prod...

Cupid & Cate
2000
as Francesca
Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thinks that Cate is a second-class citizen because of ...

An Extremely Goofy Movie
2000
as Sylvia Marpole (voice)
It's all extreme sports and a life of freedom as Max sets off for college -- but Goofy misses Max so much he loses his job and goes to finish college ...

My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies
1999
as Self - Performer
On Sept. 28, 1998, some of the greatest divas in musical theater -- including Marin Mazzie, Judy Kuhn and Audra McDonald -- took the stage at New York...

Liberty Heights
1999
as Ada Kurtzman
This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Jewish family living in suburban Baltimore during th...

Summer of Sam
1999
as Gloria
During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.

Dash and Lilly
1999
as Dorothy Parker
Biographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry,...

Getting to Know You
1999
as Trix
A chance encounter alters a teenage girl's perception of herself and her outlook on life.

The Faculty
1998
as Principal Valerie Drake
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicio...

An All Dogs Christmas Carol
1998
as Anabelle / Belladonna (voice)
Charlie and Itchy are back with Sasha and the gang having a Dickens of a time as they try to save Christmas from Carface and an evil spirit that plots...

Celebrity
1998
as Nina - the Hooker
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment j...

The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle
1997
as Self (archive footage)
A profile of composing team John Kander and Fred Ebb, who have written many Broadway musicals. Highlights include interviews with Lauren Bacall, Joel ...

Dear Diary
1996
as Annie
A New York magazine art director, a married mother of two who just turned 40, decides to record the events of her day in a journal. The film won an O...

The Associate
1996
as Camille Scott
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior inve...

The Adventures of Pinocchio
1996
as Felinet
One of puppet-maker Geppetto's creations comes magically to life. This puppet, Pinocchio, has one major desire and that is to become a real boy someda...

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
1996
as Anabelle (voice)
Charlie and Itchy return to Earth to find Gabriel's Horn, but along the way meet up with a young boy named David, who ran away from home.

Jumanji
1995
as Nora Shepherd
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's b...

The Paint Job
1993
as Margaret
The peaceful existence of a suburban backwater is disrupted when Wesley, a troubled housepainter falls for Margaret, the sensitive wife of his boss, W...

Malice
1993
as Det. Dana Harris
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same af...

Bugsy
1991
as Countess di Frasso
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitat...

Green Card
1990
as Lauren Adler
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fa...

Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special
1990
as Self
Celebration of Disneyland's 35th Anniversary

Unspeakable Acts
1990
as Susan Maxwell
Two psychologists try to demonstrate that a man is a pedophile and has abused many children.

Without Her Consent
1990
as Gloria Allred
Fact-based story about the emotional trauma and following legal problems of a young woman who was raped by an acquaintance.

Say Anything...
1989
as Mrs. Evans
Lloyd, an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. He surprises just about ev...
I Came with Earrings
N/A
This is a personal story inspired by the real-life video that Hahn Ponder uploaded to YouTube intended for her unknown birth mom in Vietnam…. It all b...
Don't Say Good Luck
N/A
Sophie Birenbaum is ready for the spotlight as the lead in her high school musical — until suddenly she’s living with even more drama at home than on ...