Allen Kelsey Grammer was born on February 21,1955 and is an American actor, producer and director.
69 Facts About Kelsey Grammer
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Kelsey Grammer gained fame for his role as psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom Cheers and its spin-off Frasier.
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Kelsey Grammer has received numerous accolades including a total of five Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Tony Award.
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Kelsey Grammer was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000.
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Kelsey Grammer is known for his voice roles in Anastasia, Toy Story 2, and as Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons.
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Kelsey Grammer has appeared in the sitcoms 30 Rock, Modern Family, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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In 2010, Kelsey Grammer returned to Broadway in the musical revival of La Cage aux Folles, where he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical.
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In 2016, Kelsey Grammer won a Tony Award for Best Musical as producer of a musical revival of The Color Purple.
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Allen Kelsey Grammer was born on February 21,1955, in Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands, to Frank Allen Grammer Jr.
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Kelsey Grammer's father was a musician, owned a restaurant called Greer's Place, and owned and edited the Virgin Islands View magazine.
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Kelsey Grammer had one younger sister, Karen, and four half-siblings from his father's second marriage.
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The family later moved to Pompano Beach, Florida, and shortly afterwards, when Kelsey Grammer was twelve years old, his grandfather died of cancer.
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Kelsey Grammer attended Pine Crest School, a private preparatory school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Kelsey Grammer later won a scholarship to study drama at the Juilliard School, where he was a member of Group 6 from 1973 to 1975.
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However, after his sister's murder, Kelsey Grammer failed to attend classes and was eventually expelled.
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Kelsey Grammer made his Broadway debut in 1981 as "Lennox" in Macbeth, taking the lead role when Philip Anglim withdrew after receiving negative reviews.
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Kelsey Grammer then played Michael Cassio in a Broadway revival of Othello, alongside James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer.
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In 2000, Kelsey Grammer again played Macbeth on Broadway, in a production that closed after only 10 days.
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Kelsey Grammer starred alongside Douglas Hodge for which they both were nominated for Tony Awards for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.
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In March 2015, Kelsey Grammer originated the roles of Charles Frohman and Captain Hook in the Broadway premiere of the musical Finding Neverland, continuing with the roles through June.
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Kelsey Grammer returned to the stage from January 19 to April 3,2016.
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In 2016, Kelsey Grammer won a Tony Award as a producer of The Color Purple.
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In 2019, Kelsey Grammer starred as Don Quixote in a production of Man of La Mancha at the London Coliseum.
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In 1984, Kelsey Grammer first appeared as Dr Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcom Cheers.
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Kelsey Grammer was supposed to appear for only six episodes, but ended up as a regular cast member.
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Kelsey Grammer's 20-year run playing Dr Frasier Crane ties a length set by James Arness in playing Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1975, but it was surpassed by Richard Belzer in playing Det.
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In 1995, Kelsey Grammer voiced Dr Frankenollie in the Mickey Mouse short Runaway Brain, and it was nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
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Kelsey Grammer later starred in the lead role as Lt.
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In 1999, Kelsey Grammer voiced the main antagonist Stinky Pete in Pixar's Golden Globe Award-winning Toy Story 2.
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Kelsey Grammer provided voice work for several other animated television series and direct-to-video films, such as Barbie of Swan Lake, Bartok the Magnificent, the title character in the short-lived animated series Gary the Rat, and the narrator of Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas.
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Kelsey Grammer voiced Dr Ivan Krank in Disney's Teacher's Pet.
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Kelsey Grammer produced an American adaptation of the British show The Sketch Show, which aired on Fox.
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Kelsey Grammer appeared in only short opening and closing segments in each episode.
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In 2007, Kelsey Grammer starred with Patricia Heaton in the American sitcom Back to You, which Fox cancelled after its first season.
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In 2011 and 2012, Grammer found temporary success in the Starz drama series Boss as a fictional mayor of Chicago, based on former mayor Richard J Daley.
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At the 2012 Golden Globe Awards Kelsey Grammer won the award for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama for his role.
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From 2010 to 2012, Kelsey Grammer guest starred as a comical version of himself in three episodes of the NBC show 30 Rock alongside Jane Krakowski and Jack McBrayer.
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In 2014, Kelsey Grammer returned to sitcom television in Partners with comedian Martin Lawrence.
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Later that same year, Kelsey Grammer starred in several films such as Bonaparte in The Expendables 3 and as Harold Attinger in Transformers: Age of Extinction.
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Kelsey Grammer played the character Buckley in Best of Enemies and appeared as both the narrator and Herod the Great, in the National Geographic TV film Killing Jesus.
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Since 2006, Kelsey Grammer has provided the voice for television commercials advertising Hyundai.
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In 2008, Kelsey Grammer reprised his role of Dr Frasier Crane in a commercial for Dr Pepper.
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Kelsey Grammer has been married four times, and has seven children and one grandchild as of 2011.
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Kelsey Grammer was later a cast member on MTV's show Awkward.
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When Csuhany was three months pregnant, Kelsey Grammer filed for an annulment and evicted her from their home; Kelsey Grammer claimed she was abusive and fired a gun at him.
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On July 1,2010, it was announced that Kelsey Grammer had filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.
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Kelsey Grammer and Walsh have a daughter, born July 2012, and two sons, born July 2014 and November 2016.
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On 18 January 2023, it was reported that Kelsey Grammer had purchased a house in his wife's home town of Portishead, Somerset, England.
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Kelsey Grammer identified his sister's body and informed their mother shortly after.
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In 2015 his wife posted an Instagram photo of Kelsey Grammer wearing a T-shirt from the anti-abortion group Abort73.
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Kelsey Grammer endorsed Rudy Giuliani in the 2008 presidential primary and later campaigned for John McCain in the general election.
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Kelsey Grammer endorsed Michele Bachmann for the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
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Kelsey Grammer later endorsed Mitt Romney, after he had won the nomination.
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Kelsey Grammer supported Ben Carson's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, although voiced support for Donald Trump's policies while describing him as a "brat".
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In 1988, Kelsey Grammer was charged with drunk driving and cocaine possession and sentenced to 30 days in jail.
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In January 1991, Kelsey Grammer was given an additional two years' probation for violating his original probation through additional cocaine use.
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On May 31,2008, while paddleboarding with his then-wife Camille in Hawaii, Kelsey Grammer experienced a heart attack.
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Kelsey Grammer was discharged on June 4,2008, and was said to be "resting comfortably" at his Hawaiian residence.
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Seven weeks after the attack, Kelsey Grammer told Entertainment Tonight that, although his spokesman described the attack as mild, it was in fact more severe as his heart had stopped.
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In 1988, Kelsey Grammer was arrested for possession of one-quarter gram of cocaine, after being pulled over in a traffic stop for driving with expired plates in North Hollywood.
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Kelsey Grammer later served 10 days of community service after failing to comply with the requirements of his parole in 1990.
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Later in the same year, Kelsey Grammer was sentenced to 90 days of house arrest, ordered to pay a $500 fine, underwent drug and alcohol abuse counseling, and performed 300 hours of community service for his 1988 cocaine possession case.
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In 1995, Kelsey Grammer was accused of sleeping with his child's underage babysitter.
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In 1998, Kelsey Grammer filed a lawsuit against Internet Entertainment Group, which Kelsey Grammer claimed had stolen from his home a videotape of him sleeping with a woman.
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IEG counter-sued Kelsey Grammer, denying it was in possession of such a tape, and Kelsey Grammer's suit was eventually dropped.
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Kelsey Grammer won numerous awards and accolades, particularly for his work on Frasier.
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Kelsey Grammer was the first American actor to be nominated for multiple Emmy awards for portraying the same character on three different television shows.
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In 2010, Kelsey Grammer received his first Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in La Cage Aux Folles opposite Douglas Hodge.
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Kelsey Grammer later won the Best Revival of a Musical, as a producer for The Color Purple, in 2016.