Kelsey Grammer
Allen Kelsey Grammer born February 21 1955 is an American actor producer and singer He gained fame for his role as the psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom Cheers 19841993 and its spinoff Frasier 19932004 and again from 2023 to 2024 With more than 20 years on air this is one of the longestrunning roles played by a single liveaction actor in primetime television history He has received numerous accolades including a total of six Emmy Awards three Golden Globe Awards a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Tony Award Grammer having trained as an actor at Juilliard and the Old Globe Theatre made his professional acting debut as Lennox in the 1981 Broadway revival of Macbeth The following year he portrayed Cassio acting opposite Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones in Othello In mid1983 he acted alongside Mandy Patinkin in the original offBroadway production of Stephen Sondheims musical Sunday in the Park with George He has since starred in the leading roles in productions of Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street My Fair Lady Big Fish and Finding Neverland In film he is known for his role as Dr Hank McCoy Beast in the superhero films XMen The Last Stand 2006 XMen Days of Future Past 2014 and The Marvels 2023 His other roles include Down Periscope 1996 The Pentagon Wars 1998 and Swing Vote 2008 He is also known for his voice roles in Anastasia 1997 Toy Story 2 1999 and as Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons 1990present He took guest roles in the sitcoms 30 Rock 20102012 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 2016 and Modern Family 2017 For his performance as the corrupt mayor in the Starz political series Boss 20112012 he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Television Series Drama In early 2010 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 In mid2016 Grammer won a Tony Award for Best Musical as producer of a musical revival of The Color Purple In early 2019 he starred as Don Quixote in a production of Man of La Mancha at the London Coliseum In late 2023 The Telegraph described Grammer as one of the finest actors of his generation He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 22 2001 Description above from the Wikipedia article Kelsey Grammer licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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