Stage
After leaving Juilliard, he had a three-year internship with the Old Globe Theater in San Diego in the late 1970s before a stint in 1980 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He made his Broadway debut in 1981 as Lennox in Macbeth, taking the lead role when Philip Anglim withdrew after receiving negative reviews. In 1983 he performed on the demo of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine production Sunday in the Park with George starring Mandy Patinkin. Also featured on the demo was Christine Baranski who later starred as Mrs. Lovett to his Sweeney in the 1999 LA Reprise! production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He then played the featured role of Cassio in a Broadway revival of Othello with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer.
More about Kelsey Grammer (From Wikipedia)
Stage
After leaving Juilliard, he had a three-year internship with the Old Globe Theater in San Diego in the late 1970s before a stint in 1980 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. read more...
Television
His television career began in the early 1980s when he portrayed Stephen Smith in the NBC mini-series Kennedy. Grammer came to broader public attention as Dr. Frasier Crane in the read more...
Voice Work
Grammer's smooth, deep voice and Mid-Atlantic accent makes him popular for voiceover work. He has provided the voice of Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons, winning an Emmy for his work read more...
Production Work
His production company, Grammnet Productions, produces the CW sitcoms Girlfriends and The Game, as well as being involved in many other projects.
read more...Other Work
He returned to series television on Fox's The Sketch Show. Prior to that he guest starred as The Angel of Death on Medium, which he also produces. In film, his recent work includes read more...
Awards
Grammer has received at least 45 nominations for major awards of which he won on 18 occasions. He has received fourteen individual Emmy Award nominations for four different television read more...
Family
Grammer has been married three times. His first marriage, to dance instructor Doreen Alderman, lasted from 1982 to 1990. They had one daughter, Spencer (born October 9, 1983), an read more...
Health Problems
Grammer suffered a heart attack on May 31, 2008. He told Jay Leno on the July 24, 2008 airing of The Tonight Show that he had to wait one and half hours for paramedics to arrive. read more...
Politics
He is a member of the Republican Party and has expressed an interest in someday running for United States Congress.
He was a celebrity guest at President George W. Bush's first read more...
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 read more...