Peri Gilpin

Her first role after Frasier was in 2007, when she guest starred in an episode of Medium, playing Alison Dubois' mother from her childhood. The show's executive producer is Frasier star Kelsey Grammar.

Peri Gilpin appeared before the Senate Appropriations Labor, Health, Human Services and Education Subcommittee in May 2001. She is an advocate and member of the National Breast Cancer Coalition.

Peri has been involved with some voice acting, including voicing Jane Proudfoot from the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

Peri won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Frasier in 2000. She was nominated a total of ten times.

Her father was a Baptist minister.

As of 2006, Peri lives in Los Angeles with her immediate family.

She appeared in New Jersey Shakespeare Festival's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

She began her acting career in a guest appearance on 21 Jump Street in 1988.

She has actually worked as a radio show sound engineer.

Prior to becoming an actress, she worked as a make-up artist.

She attended Skyline Highschool in Texas.

Peri married her husband, Christian Vincent, on the 31st of July, 1999.

Her name in Frasier, Roz Doyle, came from the producer of Wings, who had passed away.

She guest appeared in an episode of Cheers alongside Kelsey Grammar's Dr. Frasier Crane, unknowing that she was to spend eleven years with Dr. Crane on Frasier.

She went on to study at London's British-American Academy.

Peri studied acting at the University of Texas.

She attended the Dallas Theatre Centre.

Her parents always encouraged her in her acting.

She was born in Waco, Texas.

Peri is 1.7 metres tall, or 5 foot 7 inches.

Peri has twice guest starred on the show Danny Phantom.

After years of failed in vitro treatments, she and her husband turned to surrogacy. Twin daughters, Stella and Ava finally arrived in a Nevada hospital on May 7, 2004. The couple burbled that holding their new girls was "the best, best in the world, world."

Her husband, Vincent, is an artist.

Peri was the only one of the five main cast members of Frasier never to be nominated for an Emmy.

Her father, Jim O'Brien, was a well known and respected radio and TV News weatherman/personality in Philadelphia in the '70s and early 80s. He died in a skydiving accident on September 25, 1983.

Peri weighed so much during gestation that her parents thought she was a boy.

Peri was named after the Disney cartoon character Peri the squirrel.

Peri worked as a makeup artist before getting her acting break after meeting Blythe Danner, who became her main supporter.

Peri is best friends with Frasier co-star Jane Leeves and is godmother to Jane's daughter Isabella.