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Actress Kirstie Alley has died after battling cancer,her family and her manager said  Monday night.She was 71 years old.

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Allen’s children True and Lillie Parker wrote in a statement on Alley’s Twitter,"She was surrounded by her closest family with great strength….

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leaving us with a certainty of her never -ending joy of living and whatever adventures lie ahead. As iconic as she was on screen.

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Alley,was born in Wichita,Kansas,to Robert Deal Alley and Lillian Alley in 1951,her father owned a lumber company,and her mother, was a homemaker.

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She was previously married twice.She wrote a memoir,The Art of Men published in 2012.She revealed that she fell in love with Patrick Swayze.

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She is Emmy-winning comic actress.She appeared as a vulcan Starfleet officer in her first film.Star Trek II, The Wrath of Kahn(1982).

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She graduated from Wichita Southeast High School in 1069.She got married to Bob Alley in 1970.

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She portrayed a Playboy Club-era Gloria Steinem in the 1985 telefilm A Bunny’s Tale.

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Alley’s film resume also included shoot to kill,Madhouse,Sibling Rivalry,John Carpenter’s Village of the Damned,Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry,and Drop Dead Gorgeous.