Kelsey Grammer

Grammer has married four times and has seven children. He has one daughter from his first wife, Doreen Alderman and another daughter from hair and makeup artist, Barrie Buckner, after his divorce.

His second marriage was to dancer, Leigh Anne Csuhany, which lasted for only a year. Thereafter he dated Tammy Alexander for some time and married Playboy model Camille Donatacci from whom he has a daughter and a son.

The marriage did not last and Grammer married a fourth time to a British flight attendant, Kayte Walsh, from whom he has a daughter and two sons.

Grammer was born on February 21, 1955 in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands to Sally and Frank Allen Grammer who were both musicians and owned a coffee shop, bar cum grill called Greer’s Place. He has English, Irish, German and Scottish ancestry.

He had a younger sister and his parents divorced when he was two years old. He attended Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, which was a private preparatory school. Later he joined Julliard School.

After leaving Julliard School, he had a three year internship with the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in the late 1970s. He also spent some time at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1980, before he made his Broadway debut in 1981 as ‘Lennox’ in Macbeth.

His stage appearances progressed with him playing Michael Plummer in the Broadway revival of ‘Othello’ and in 2010 he made his Broadway musical debut in ‘La Cage Aux Folles’.

Besides stage performances, he began his television career in the early 1980s when he played the role of Stephen Smith in the NBC miniseries, ‘Kennedy’.

Grammer started making it big and got noticed when he played the role of Dr Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcom ‘Cheers’. The character became the spin off ‘Frasier’, which is one of the most successful spin offs in TV history. In addition to acting he also directed more than 30 episodes in the second half of the series.

From 2005 to 2007, Grammer did not have much success as the television shows, ‘Back to You’ and an adaption of the British serial, ‘The Sketch Show’, in which he appeared, had to close down as they were just not funny enough.

The next few years had better luck for him as he won the Golden Globe Award (2012) for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama for his performance on ‘Boss’, where he played the role of Mayor of Chicago.

Grammer prominent films are ‘Runway Brain’ (1995) where he is the voice of Dr Frankenollie, ‘Animal Farm’ (1998) where he is the voice of Snowball, ‘Just Visiting’ (2001), ‘A Christmas Carol’ (2004), ‘Even Money’ (2007), ‘Think Like a Man Too’ (2014) and ‘Bunyan and Babe’ (2017).

He had a role in many television shows including ‘Kennedy’, ‘Cheers’, ‘The Simpsons’, ‘Baby Talk’, ‘Frasier’ and ‘Everybody Hates Chris’.

Grammer features in the video game ‘The Simpson Game’ and the theme park ‘The Simpson Ride’ where his voice is used for Sideshow Bob.

He has produced ‘Girlfriend’, ‘In Laws’ and ‘The Game’ and participated in the musical theatre ‘La Cage Aux Folles’ and ‘Finding Neverland’.