Allen Kelsey Grammer is an American actor, comedian, singer, producer, director, and writer. He is best known for his two-decade-long portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcoms Cheers andFrasier. He has also appeared in 30 Rock, Modern Family, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Grammer has won five Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, one Daytime Emmy Award and one Tony Award.
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Allen Kelsey Grammer is an American actor, comedian, singer, producer, director, and writer. He is best known for his two-decade-long portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcoms Cheers andFrasier. He has also appeared in various television shows such as 30 Rock, Modern Family, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Grammer has won five Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, one Daytime Emmy Award and one Tony Award. In 2016, Grammer won a Tony Award as a producer of The Color Purple. In 2019, he starred as Don Quixote in a production of Man of La Mancha at the London Coliseum. He returned to the stage from January 19 to April 3, 2016, in the West End production of The Big Fish. In March 2015, he originated the roles of Charles Frohman and Captain Hook in the Broadway premiere of the musical Finding Neverland with the roles continuing through June 28, 2015. He made his Broadway debut in 1981 as Lennox in Macbeth, taking the lead role when Philip Anglim withdrew after receiving negative reviews. He then played Michael Cassio in a Broadway revival of Othello, with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer. In 2010 he received his first Tony Award nomination for his performance in La Cage aux Folles. In 2013, he played Georges in a revival of the Jerry Harvey musical HermanHarvey at the Longacre Theatre. In 2014 he starred alongside Douglas Hodge in the musical Big Fish alongside Mandy Patinkin.
He also starred in productions of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street playing the title character, and My Fair Lady as Professor Henry Higgins. He appeared in The Simpsons, Anastasia, and Toy Story 2 as the voice of the dog in the animated film. He won a Golden Globe Award for his work in the political drama series Boss, and the period drama series The Last Tycoon, as well as his voice work in The Simpsons, anastasia and Toy Story 2. He was born on February 21, 1955, in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, the son of Sally, a singer and actress, and Frank Allen Grammer, Jr, a musician and owner of a coffee shop and a bar and grill called Greer’s Place. He attended Pine Crest School, a private preparatory school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He first began to sing and perform on stage at the age of 16, with his mother’s approval, he began to smoke a pipe. He had a scholarship to the Juilliard School. He later had a three-year internship with the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in the late 1970s before a stint in 1980 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1983 he performed in the demo of the Stephen Sondheim–James Lapine production Sunday in the Park with George, starring Mandypatinkin, starring George, with George.
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