Neuwirth was born in Princeton, New Jersey, the daughter of Sydney Anne, an artist, and Lee Paul Neuwirth, a mathematician. Neuwirth is Jewish and attended the Chapin School of Princeton, but graduated from Princeton High School (a public school) in 1976. She began to study dance at the age of five, and chose it as her field of concentration when she attended Juilliard in New York City in 1976 and Read more...

Neuwirth made her Broadway debut in the role of Sheila in A Chorus Line in 1980. She has been featured in revivals of Little Me (1982) Sweet Charity (1986), for which she received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Damn Yankees (1994). It was with the 1996 revival of Chicago, in which she starred as showgirl and killer Velma Kelly, that she gained her greatest stage recognition. Read more...

Beatrice “Bebe” Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an American theater, television, and film actress and singer and dancer.