Maggie Thrett, the actress and singer who most memorably played Ruth in the “Mudd’s Women” episode of the original Star Trek, has died her family announced. She was 76.
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Kirstie Alley, who won an Emmy for Cheers and went on to lead Veronica’s Closet and appear in numerous unscripted shows, has died of cancer, according to a post on her official Instagram account (read it below). She was 71.
Alley earned five consecutive Lead Actress Emmy nominations from 1988-93 for playing Rebecca Howe on Cheers, having joined the NBC comedy in its sixth season after original star Shelley Long left. She won the Emmy in 1991. Alley also won an Emmy for her starring role in the 1994 telefilm David’s Mother and was nominated in 1998 for her lead turn in NBC’s Veronica Closet. She also had an Emmy nom for a supporting role in the 1997 miniseries The Last Don.
Born on January 12, 1951, in Wichita, Kansas, Alley began her screen career in the late 1970s and played Saavik in the hit 1982 feature Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. She landed her first starring TV role in the short-lived ABC drama series Masquerade, opposite Rod Taylor and Greg Evigan. It aired from December 1983-April 1984.
She also continued to land big-screen roles, including 1984’s Runaway and Blind Date, before starring in the popular 1985 miniseries North and South. She reprised her Virgilia Hazard role for the the 1986 mini North and South: Book II.
Alley co-starred in several other mid-’80s features including 1988’s Shoot to Kill, opposite Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger, and Prince of Bel-Air, with Tom Harmon. But her most recognizable role would be as the star of Look Who’s Talking, the 1988 Amy Heckerling-directed comedy that also featured John Travolta, Geroge Segal and Olympia Dukakis. It spawned a pair of sequels in Look Who’s Talking Too (1990) and Look Who’s Talking now (1993), and Alley starred
Maggie Thrett, the actress and singer who most memorably played Ruth in the “Mudd’s Women” episode of the original Star Trek, has died her family announced. She was 76.
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