Peri Gilpin

Peri Gilpin

Infobox actor




imagesize = 150px
name = Peri Gilpin
birthname = Periwinkle Kay O'Brien
birthdate = birth date and age|1961|5|27
location = Waco, Texas
partner = Christian Vincent
notable role = Roz Doyle in Frasier

Peri Gilpin (born Periwinkle Kay O'Brien on May 27 1961, in Waco, Texas) is an American actress, best known for her role as Roz Doyle on the successful U.S. television series "Frasier", for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

Biography

Youth

Gilpin is one of the children of the late Jim O'Brien, a Baptist minister who became a musician and was later a well-known and respected radio and TV News weatherman/personality in Philadelphia until his death in a skydiving accident on September 25 1983. Her siblings, Marc Gilpin and April Gilpin, are also actors. Peri was known as Peri Kay Oldham before becoming an actress. She was raised in Dallas, Texas, where she graduated from Skyline High School, and studied acting at the University of Texas at Austin and the British-American Academy in London.

Career

With "Frasier" co-star Jane Leeves, she runs the production company Bristol Cities. Their latest project was a pilot for a US remake of the British sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley", with Kirstie Alley in the title role.

Gilpin is the voice actress for the character Jane Proudfoot in '. She also provides the voices of Desiree in the Nickelodeon animated television series, "Danny Phantom", Volcana in ' and "Justice League Unlimited", and Kate Corrigan in the "Hellboy" animated films. She was the voice actress for several Wells Fargo and Johnsonville Meats TV commercials. More recently Peri has appeared in the television series "Medium", as Diane Benoit, Allison Dubois' mother, and in the popular "Desperate Housewives". She has also appeared on "Law and Order", in both the original and "". She also stars alongside Teri Polo in the Lifetime movie "For the Love of a Child," where she [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479917/ plays an actress] entertaining troops on a USO tour and tries to help poor children.

Personal life

She married Christian Vincent on July 31 1999. The couple had twins born via a surrogate mother in 2004.Fact|date=September 2008

She was named after the squirrel "Perri" from a Disney "True-Life Adventures" documentary. [http://imdb.com/name/nm0004963/bio IMDb: Trivia for Peri Gilpin] ] Fact|date=September 2008

References

External links

* [http://imdb.com/name/nm0004963/ Peri Gilpin] at the Internet Movie Database


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