Kelsey Grammer is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, director, writer, singer, producer, and activist. He popularized the character of Dr. Fraiser Crane on the NBC series Fraiser, for over two decades. Grammer has been the recipient of multiple Primetime Emmy Awards, and Golden Globe Awards and has also given his voice to the character Sideshow Bob on the popular show The Simpsons.

Early Life
Grammer was born to Frank Allen Grammer and Sally in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. His father was a musician and also owned Greer's Place – a coffee shop and a bar grill. He had a younger sister and his parents got divorced when he was just two. Grammer began his schooling with Pine Crest school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and later completed his schooling from the Julliard School.

Personal Life
Grammer married Doreen Alderman, a dance instructor, in 1982, and the couple's first daughter, Spencer Grammer, was born on October 9, 1983. Spencer is also an actress and has worked on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns and the TV show Greek, aired on ABC. Grammer’s first marriage lasted for eight years, from 1982 to 1990. However, the couple remained separated during the last six years of their marriage. He then dated the makeup stylist, Barrie Buckner, and has a daughter with her named, Kandace Greer Grammer.

In 1992, he married the former exotic dancer Leigh-Anne Csuhany, however, when Csuhany was three months pregnant he filed for an annulment. Their marriage lasted for a year with Grammer claiming that Csuhany was abusive and also fired a gun at him. The following year, in 1993, Grammer started dating Tammy Baliszewski aka Tammy Alexander and the couple soon announced their engagement. However, owing to Grammer's substance abuse, they separated in 1995.

In 1996, Grammer met the former Playboy model Camille Donatacci, on a blind date and the couple got married the next year. Their marriage last for 15 years before Donatacci filed for a divorce in 2010, citing irreconcilable differences. The couple's first child, a daughter, Mason Olivia, was born on 24th October 2001, and their son Jude Gordon was born on 28th August 2004 – both their kids are born to a surrogate mother.

After his divorce with Donatacci, he dated Kayte Walsh, a British flight attendant, who is 25 years younger to him. In 2010, he also announced that he was expecting his fifth child through Walsh, however, Walsh miscarried six weeks into her pregnancy. A year later, on February 25, 2011, the couple got married at The Plaza Hotel in New York City – this happened two weeks after his third divorce. In July 2012 Welsh gave birth to their first child, a daughter, Evangeline Elisa and a couple of years later their second child, a son Kelsey Gabriel Elias was born in 2014. While giving to Faith, Walsh was expecting a twin, who unfortunately died in utero.

Stage Career
In the late 1970s, after he completed his schooling, Grammer took up a three-year internship with the Old Globe Theatre. Later in the 1980s he worked at the Guthrie Theater in Minnesota and in the following year also made his Broadway debut in Macbeth; portraying the character of Lennox. However, Grammer soon replaced Phillip Anglim, who was portraying the lead character, as he received negative comments. He next starred in another Shakespearean play, Othello, portraying the character of Michael Cassio, along with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer.

In 1983, Grammer, alongside Mandy Patinkin, appeared in the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine production titled Sunday in the Park with George. The actor later went on to work in several stage plays before making his Broadway Musical debut on April 18, 2010, with the play La Cage aux Follies. For his brilliant performance, Grammer was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. In subsequent years the actor appeared in several plays with Finding Neverland (2015) being one of his notable projects.

Television Career
Grammer started his Television career during the 1980s and portrayed the role of Stephen Smith in the TV series Kennedy. He later went on to appear in several TV series but came to wide public recognition for his performance as Dr. Frasier Crane in the TV series Cheers. It was Grammer's Broadway co-star and schoolmate, Mandy Patinkin, who suggested the casting director that he cast Grammer for the role in Cheers. Soon, Grammer was cast in the show but his role initially was supposed to be only a six-episode stint, however, he ended up being cast for the entire season. The success of his character in Cheers eventually gave birth to the spin-off TV series Fraiser. The TV series that ran for 11 years went on to become one of the most successful spin-off TV series in TV history, winning several awards.

Post the success of Fraiser, Grammer acted and produced 'The Sketch Show', which was an adaptation of the British TV show. Malcolm Barrett, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Kaitlin Olson, and Paul F. Tompkins lined up the main cast of the show. With only six episodes shot, only four were aired and the show was canceled soon after. Following this, his next two appearances in TV shows didn't failed miserably. He first appeared in the 2007 American sitcom Back to You, which was canceled by Fox after the first season, and later Grammer was a part of ABC's HANK which was a bigger disappointment. In his next TV series, titled Boss, Grammer essayed the character Richard J. Daley, and he also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Television Series Drama for his role in Boss in the year 2012.

While Grammer was still a part of Fraiser, he also appeared in several TV films in the 1990s and 2000s viz. The Innocent (1994), The Pentagon Wars (1998), Mr. St. Nicj (2002), and A Christmas Carol (2004).

Movie Career
As an Actor
Grammer made his silver-screen acting debut with the movie Galaxies Are Colliding in 1992 and subsequently gave his voice to characters in movies such as Runaway Brain (1995), Anastasia (1997), Animal (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), and Barbie of Swan Lake (2003). His mid-Atlantic accent has been very popular and he has also voiced for many commercials.

Apart from being a popular voice actor, Grammer has also been a part of several movies as an actor such as 15 Minutes (2001), The Big Empty (2003), and A Christmas Carol (2004). In 2014 he appeared in a cameo, playing the role of Dr. Henry 'Hank' McCoy aka Beast in the movie X-Men: Days of Future Past. In the following years, he starred in the movies such as Think Like A Man Too (2014), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), and The Expendables (2014). His 2016 release includes Storks, an animation movie wherein he voices the character of Hunter.

As a Producer
Grammer owns a production company Grammnet productions that has produced the sitcoms Girlfriends and The Game.