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Kelsey Grammer is an American actor born on the 21st of February 1955 in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. He is best known for playing Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom Cheers from 1984 to 1993 and its spin-off Frasier from 1993 to 2004, a combined run of more than 20 years that is one of the longest for a single live-action actor in primetime television history.
Kelsey Grammer has won a total of six Emmy Awards. Four of those wins came from his role in Frasier, tying him with Carroll O'Connor, Michael J. Fox, and Jim Parsons for the most wins in the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series category. A fifth Emmy came for his Simpsons work on the episode "The Italian Bob."
Grammer's father was murdered in Saint Thomas in 1968 during racial violence following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. His younger sister Karen was kidnapped, raped, and murdered in Colorado Springs, Colorado on the 1st of July 1975 by spree killer Freddie Glenn and three other men. His two teenage half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident in 1980.
Grammer won a scholarship to the Juilliard School, where he was a member of Group 6 from 1973 to 1975, but was expelled after his sister's murder caused him to miss classes. He then completed a three-year internship at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego before a stint at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
In 2001, Kelsey Grammer negotiated a salary of $700,000 per episode for Frasier.
Grammer won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama at the 2012 ceremony for his role as Mayor Tom Kane in the Starz political drama Boss. The show ran for 18 episodes over two seasons and was his first dramatic television series.