American actor and dancer, born in 1958 and a Tony and Emmy winner known as Lilith in Cheers, who played the Malcorian nurse Lanel in the episode First Contact.
Bebe Neuwirth is an American actor, singer and dancer, born in 1958, who won Tony Awards for Sweet Charity and Chicago and two Emmy Awards as Dr. Lilith Sternin in Cheers.
In Star Trek: The Next Generation she makes a brief guest appearance in the fourth-season episode First Contact, first shown in 1991. She plays Lanel, a nurse at the Malcorian hospital where the injured and disguised Riker is being held. Fascinated by the idea of visitors from other worlds, she offers to help him escape on condition that he fulfils her wish to be intimate with an alien.
Her Cheers colleague Kelsey Grammer made his own guest appearance in the series the following year.