Allen Kelsey Grammer (born
February 21 1955) is a five-time
Emmy and two-time
Golden Globe-winning
American actor best known for his two-decade portrayal of
psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane in the
NBC sitcoms
Cheers (nine years) and
Frasier (eleven years). He was nominated for Emmys for playing his character on three different sitcoms (the third being a guest appearance on
Wings). He has also worked as a
television producer,
director,
writer, and a
voice artist. In 2006, he also appeared in the third film in the
X-Men film series,
X-Men: The Last Stand, as
Hank McCoy a.k.a. Beast. He is also noted for providing the voice for Sideshow Bob in episodes of The Simpsons.
Background
Grammer was born in
Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, the son of Sally (
née Cranmer), a singer, and Frank Allen Grammer, Jr., a musician and owner of a coffee shop and a bar and grill.
["Grammer's Lesson" from Smoke magazine]["A suitable case for treatment" from Ginny Dougary's blog][Kelsey Grammer Biography (1955-)] He is descended from Massachusetts Governor
Thomas Dudley. His parents' marriage ended when he was young; his mother took him to live with her, and he was raised partly in
New Jersey by his maternal grandparents, Evangeline Dimmock and Gordon Cranmer.
Family tragedies
His family life has been plagued by tragedies. In 1968, when Grammer was thirteen, his father, whom he had seen only twice since his parents' divorce, was
murdered on the front lawn of his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
In 1975, his sister was murdered after being abducted outside a
Red Lobster restaurant in
Colorado Springs, Colorado where her boyfriend worked.
[Murder of Kelsey Grammer's sister] He has sworn to prevent his sister's murderer from being paroled.
["Kelsey Grammer Vows to Speak for Sister if Killer Pursues Parole" from FOXNews] In 1980, his younger half-brother was killed by a shark in a
SCUBA diving accident.
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