- Peri Gilpin
Infobox actor
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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 inFrasier Peri Gilpin (born Periwinkle Kay O'Brien on
May 27 1961 , inWaco, Texas ) is an Americanactress , best known for her role asRoz Doyle on the successful U.S.television series "Frasier ", for which she won aScreen 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 inPhiladelphia until his death in askydiving accident onSeptember 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 inDallas, Texas , where she graduated from Skyline High School, and studied acting at theUniversity of Texas at Austin and the British-American Academy inLondon .Career
With "
Frasier " co-starJane 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 ", withKirstie 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 ", andKate Corrigan in the "Hellboy" animated films. She was the voice actress for severalWells 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 alongsideTeri 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 aUSO tour and tries to help poor children.Personal life
She married Christian Vincent on
July 31 1999 . The couple hadtwins born via asurrogate mother in 2004.Fact|date=September 2008She 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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