Neuwirth started taking ballet lessons at the age of five, a year after viewing a production of The Nutcracker with her mother. In her youth, Neuwirth rebelled against authority, being placed in custody for smoking marijuana when she was 13. She has an older brother Peter, a mathematician and actuary who graduated from Harvard. Her mother, Sydney Anne Neuwirth, is a painter who also danced as an amateur for the Princeton Regional Ballet Company. Her father, Lee Neuwirth, was a mathematician who taught at Princeton University and also designed an encryption device while working at the Institute for Defense Analyses. From 2014 to 2017, she starred as Nadine Tolliver in the CBS political drama Madam Secretary.

Other Broadway musical roles include Lola in the revival of Damn Yankees (1994) and Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (2010). On stage she played the Tony Award–winning roles of Nickie in the revival of Sweet Charity (1986) and Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago (1996). In film, she portrayed Nora Shepherd in the original Jumanji (1995) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019). In 2005, Neuwirth was cast as Bureau Chief/ ADA Tracey Kibre in the short-lived Law & Order courtroom drama series, Law & Order: Trial by Jury on NBC, which was canceled after just 12 episodes (the 13th originally unaired) owing to low ratings. Lilith Sternin, Frasier Crane's wife, on both the TV sitcom Cheers (in a starring role) and its spin-off Frasier (in a recurring guest role). Beatrice 'Bebe' Jane Neuwirth ( / ˈ b iː b i ˈ nj uː w ɜːr θ/ born December 31, 1958) is an American actress, singer, and dancer.

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