Lilith Sternin-Crane

Dr. Lilith Sternin
Cheers and Frasier character
from the Cheers episode "Sisterly Love" (episode 167, 1989)
First appearance	Cheers: "Second Time Around" (season 4, episode 17)
Last appearance	Frasier: "Guns N' Neuroses" (season 11, episode 9)
Portrayed by	Bebe Neuwirth
Information
Gender	Female
Occupation	Psychiatrist
Family	Betty Sternin (mother) Blaine Sternin (half-brother)
Spouse(s)	Frasier Crane (ex-husband; 1988–1993, re-enacted in 1992) Brian (ex-husband; 1994–1998)
Significant other(s)	Dr. Louis Pascal (lover)
Children	Frederick Crane (son, with Frasier)
Relatives	Martin Crane (ex-father-in-law) Niles Crane (ex-brother-in-law)
Religion	Judaism
Nationality	American

Lilith Sternin (formerly Sternin-Crane) is a fictional character on the American television sitcoms Cheers and Frasier, portrayed by Bebe Neuwirth. The character first appears as a date for Frasier Crane, though mutual hostility and discomfort causes the evening to end badly. Several months later, Lilith meets Frasier again and, with some help from Frasier's ex-fiancée, Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), they start a romantic relationship, eventually living together, marrying, and having a son, Frederick.

In the final season of Cheers, Lilith has an affair with another man and leaves Frasier. The affair later unravels and Lilith returns, seeking reconciliation with Frasier. Although Cheers ended ambiguously with regard to Frasier and Lilith's marriage, at the beginning of the spin-off series Frasier, their divorce had been finalized, with Lilith gaining custody of Frederick and remaining in Boston while Frasier has moved back to his hometown of Seattle. Lilith occasionally appears in Frasier, sometimes with Frederick.

Lilith first appears in the Cheers episode, "Second Time Around" (1986), as Frasier Crane's (Kelsey Grammer) date. In the episode, their first date does not go well. Lilith walks out of the date because she disdains the bar as Frasier's location for their date and Frasier's activities at the bar. In "Abnormal Psychology" (1986), they feel mutual attraction again when he becomes accustomed to her makeover, done by Diane Chambers. At first reluctant to start over again, they then decide to go for another date. For years they live together since, as first shown in "Dinner at Eight-ish" (1987). "Our Hourly Bread" (1988) reveals that they wed one month before the episode. (In "Smotherly Love" (1992), they re-enact their wedding to please Lilith's mother Betty (Marilyn Cooper), who was irritated that she had not been present for their marriage.) In "The Stork Brings a Crane" (1989), Lilith gives birth to Frederick during the taxi ride home after false labor in the hospital.