Kelsey Grammer | Cheers

Allen Kelsey Grammer was born in Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands, on February 21, 1955, to Sally Cranmer and Frank Allen Grammer Jr., who was a guitarist and owner of Greer’s Place, a coffee shop and bar and grill. He has one younger sibling named Karen. Grammer went to Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which is a private preparatory school. Unfortunately, when his sister passed away, Grammer missed school and was subsequently dismissed.

He was awarded a scholarship to the Juilliard School to further his degree. Grammer did a three-year internship at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego after graduating from Juilliard in the late 1970s, followed by a run at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1980. One year later, he made his Broadway debut as Lennox in Macbeth, replacing Philip Anglim, who had withdrawn due to poor reviews. He rose to fame, however, after playing Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom Cheers.For his recent roles, he played Harry Hamilton in the Netflix film Like Father, which he co-wrote with Kristen Bell, and as a detective in Grand Isle, which he co-wrote with Nicolas Cage. He is also rumored to play Kang the Conqueror in Loki.

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