Peri Gilpin Add to My Celebs Age 50 Birthday May. 27th, 1961 Born in Waco, Texas, USA Height 5' 7"

Peri Gilpin's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Frasier Roz Doyle Make It or Break It Kim Keeler Women of a Certain Age Dianne Flesh 'n' Blood Irene Pride & Joy Brenda

Main Movie Roles 2005 - Thru the Moebius Strip 2001 - Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Born in Waco, Texas, Peri Gilpin grew up in Dallas, where her family encouraged her acting abilities. After studying at the Dallas Theater Center, she pursued acting at the University of Texas at Austin and then at London's British-American Academy. She appeared in guest roles on such popular situation comedies as "Designing Women" (1986), "Cheers" (1982) and "Wings" (1990), where she worked with the late producer, Roz Doyle, the namesake of her character on "Frasier" (1993).


TRIVIA:

• Godmother to _"Frasier" (1993)_ (qv) co-star 'Jane Leeves' (qv)'s daughter, Isabella Kathryn Coben.
• Older sister of actors 'Marc Gilpin' (qv) and 'April Gilpin (I)' (qv).
• Graduated from Skyline High School, Texas.
• Her father, 'Jim O'Brien (IV)' (qv), 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.
• Worked as a makeup artist before getting her acting break after meeting 'Blythe Danner' (qv), who became her main supporter.
• Actually worked as a radio show sound engineer.
• 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."
• Weighed so much during gestation that her parents thought she was a boy.

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