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Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay Oldham on May 27, 1961 in Waco, Texas
Waco, Texas

Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. The city has a 2007 estimated total population of 122,222. It is the 26th largest city by population in Texas, and 195th in the US....
) is an America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
n actress.

She portrayed Roz Doyle
Roz Doyle

Rosalinda "Roz" Doyle is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier. She is played by Peri Gilpin. Lisa Kudrow was originally slated to play the character....
 on the U.S. television series Frasier
Frasier

Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
 from 1993 until 2004. Along with the principal cast, Gilpin won two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2000 and 2004.

in is a daughter of Jim O'Brien
Jim O'Brien (reporter)

Jim O'Brien was the stage name of James Oldham, who came to Philadelphia in 1970 to become a disc jockey at radio station WFIL, after short stints at KHJ in Los Angeles and WOR-FM in New York City....
, a Baptist
Baptist

A Baptist is a member of a Christian denomination characterized by the rejection of infant baptism in favor of believer's baptism by Baptism#Immersion....
 minister who became a musician and was later a radio and television news personality in Philadelphia.






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Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay Oldham on May 27, 1961 in Waco, Texas
Waco, Texas

Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. The city has a 2007 estimated total population of 122,222. It is the 26th largest city by population in Texas, and 195th in the US....
) is an America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
n actress.

She portrayed Roz Doyle
Roz Doyle

Rosalinda "Roz" Doyle is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier. She is played by Peri Gilpin. Lisa Kudrow was originally slated to play the character....
 on the U.S. television series Frasier
Frasier

Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
 from 1993 until 2004. Along with the principal cast, Gilpin won two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2000 and 2004.

Early life and career


Early life

Gilpin is a daughter of Jim O'Brien
Jim O'Brien (reporter)

Jim O'Brien was the stage name of James Oldham, who came to Philadelphia in 1970 to become a disc jockey at radio station WFIL, after short stints at KHJ in Los Angeles and WOR-FM in New York City....
, a Baptist
Baptist

A Baptist is a member of a Christian denomination characterized by the rejection of infant baptism in favor of believer's baptism by Baptism#Immersion....
 minister who became a musician and was later a radio and television news personality in Philadelphia. Her siblings, Marc Gilpin and April Gilpin, are also actors. Gilpin was known as Peri Kay Oldham before becoming an actress. She was raised in Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third largest city in the state of Texas and the List of United States cities by population in the United States.The city, with a population of over 1.3 million, is the main economic center of the 12-county Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex which contains 6.1 million people, and is the fourth-largest United States metropolitan area...
, where she graduated from Skyline High School
Skyline High School (Dallas)

Skyline High School is a secondary school in Dallas, Texas. It was the first high school in the United States to offer a magnet school curriculum....
, and studied acting at the University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a public university research university located in Austin, Texas, Texas, United States, and is the flagship#University campuses institution of University of Texas System....
 and the British-American Academy in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

Career

With Frasier
Frasier

Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
 co-star Jane Leeves
Jane Leeves

Jane Leeves is an England actress.After beginning her career in the Benny Hill Show, Leeves moved to the United States, where she performed in small roles until she secured a recurring part in the television sitcom Murphy Brown....
, 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
The Vicar of Dibley

The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis and written for its lead actress, Dawn French, by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, with contributions from Kit Hesketh-Harvey....
, with Kirstie Alley
Kirstie Alley

Kirsten Louise "Kirstie" Alley is an American actress known for her role in the TV show Cheers, in which she played Rebecca Howe from 1987-1993, winning an Emmy as the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for 1991....
 in the title role.

Gilpin is the voice actress for the character Jane Proudfoot in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a computer animated science fiction film by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy series of console role-playing game....
. She also provides the voices of Desiree in the Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)

Nickelodeon is an United States cable television network owned by Viacom International, founded in 1977 as Pinwheel. The Pinwheel name was used until 1981....
 animated television series, Danny Phantom
Danny Phantom

Danny Phantom is an American animated television show created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon , produced by Billionfold Studios. The show is about a teenage half-ghost boy, who frequently saves his town and the world from ghost attacks, while attempting to keep his ghost half a secret....
, Volcana in Superman: The Animated Series
Superman: The Animated Series

Superman: The Animated Series is the unofficial title of a Warner Bros.' United States List of animated television series that ran from 1996 to 2000....
 and Justice League Unlimited
Justice League Unlimited

Justice League Unlimited is an United States List of animated television series that was produced by and aired on Cartoon Network . Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Comics universe, and specifically based on the Justice League superhero team, it is a direct sequel to the previous Justice League animated series....
, Hecate
Hecate

Hecate Hekate , or Hekat was originally a goddess of the wilderness and childbirth, naturalized early in Mycenaean Greece or in Thrace, but originating among the Carians of Anatolia, the region where most theophoric names invoking Hecate, such as Hecataeus or Hecatomnus, progenitor of Mausollus, are attested, and where Hekate re...
 in Hercules: The Animated Series
Hercules: The Animated Series

Hercules is an animated television series based on the Hercules and the Greek mythology Heracles. The series follows teenage Hercules training as a hero as well as trying to adjust to life....
, and Kate Corrigan
Kate Corrigan

Kate Corrigan is a fictional character from the Dark Horse Comics fictional universe, featured in the comic book series Hellboy and BPRD written by Mike Mignola, et al....
 in the Hellboy animated films
Hellboy (animated series)

Hellboy Animated are original Direct-to-video animated films based upon the comic book character. Both films, Hellboy: Sword of Storms and Hellboy: Blood and Iron, received the signature of Mike Mignola and Guillermo del Toro....
. She was the voice actress for several Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo & Co. is a diversified financial services company with operations around the world. Wells Fargo is the 4th largest bank in the US by assets and the second largest bank by market cap....
 and Johnsonville Meats TV commercials.

More recently Gilpin has appeared in the television series Medium
Medium

Medium may refer to:...
, as Diane Benoit, Allison Dubois' mother, and in Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
. She has also appeared on Law and Order
Law & Order

Law & Order is an United States police procedural and legal drama Television program created by Dick Wolf. It has been broadcast on NBC since its debut on September 13, 1990....
, in both the original and Law and Order: Criminal Intent. She stars alongside Teri Polo
Teri Polo

Teri Polo is an American Actor known for her role of Pamela Martha Byrnes in the Film Meet the Parents and its sequel Meet the Fockers ....
 in the Lifetime movie For the Love of a Child.

Personal life

She married the realist painter Christian Vincent on July 31, 1999. The couple had twins born via a surrogate mother in 2004.

Acting roles

Year Title Character Type
1988 21 Jump Street
21 Jump Street

21 Jump Street is an hour-long police drama Television program that aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company from April 12, 1987 in television to April 27, 1991 in television, with a total of 103 episodes....
 		 Fitzgerald Series (guest)
1990 Matlock
Matlock (TV series)

Matlock is a long-running United States television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role. The show ran from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC, where it replaced the long-running series The A-Team to Friday nights, then on November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on American Broadcasting Company....
 		 Leslie Matthews Series (guest)
1991-1992 Flesh 'n' Blood
Flesh 'n' Blood

Flesh 'n' Blood is a situation comedy broadcast in the United States by NBC as part of its 1991-92 United States network television schedule....
 		 Irene Series (continuing role)
1992 Wings
Wings (TV series)

Wings is an United States sitcom that ran on NBC from April 19, 1990 to May 14, 1997. Starring Timothy Daly and Steven Weber as brothers Joe and Brian Hackett, the show was set at the fictional Tom Nevers Field, a small airport in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where the Hackett brothers operated Sandpiper Airlines....
 		 Barbara #242 Series (guest)
1993 Designing Women
Designing Women

Designing Women is an United States television sitcom that centered around the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia....
 		 Jade Herman Series (guest)
1993 Cheers
Cheers

Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles....
 		 Holly Matheson Series (guest)
1993-2004 Frasier
Frasier

Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
 		 Roz Doyle
Roz Doyle

Rosalinda "Roz" Doyle is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier. She is played by Peri Gilpin. Lisa Kudrow was originally slated to play the character....
 		 Series (continuing role)
1995 Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story Charlotte Parks TV Movie
1995 Pride & Joy
Pride & Joy

"Pride and Joy" is a 1963 single by Marvin Gaye, released on the Motown label. The single, co-written by William "Mickey" Stevenson, Gaye and Norman Whitfield, and produced by Stevenson, was considered to be a tribute to Gaye's first wife, Anna Gordy Gaye....
 		 Brenda Series (guest)
1996 The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits is an United States television series. Similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone , with more science fiction than fantasy stories, The Outer Limits is an anthology of discrete story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end....
 		 Dr. Rebecca Warfield Series (guest)
1996 The Secret She Carried Ellen Hayward TV Movie (star)
1996 Early Edition
Early Edition

Early Edition is a television series that aired on CBS from September 28, 1996 to May 27, 2000. Set in the city of Chicago, Illinois, it followed the adventures of a man who mysteriously receives each Chicago Sun-Times newspaper the day before it is actually published, and who uses this knowledge to prevent terrible events each day....
 		 Lenore Series (guest)
1998 The Lionhearts Lana Lionheart Voice
1998 The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story Raksha the Wolf Voice
1998 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Hecate Voice
1998 Superman: The Animated Series
Superman: The Animated Series

Superman: The Animated Series is the unofficial title of a Warner Bros.' United States List of animated television series that ran from 1996 to 2000....
 		 Volcana Voice
1999 Spring Forward
Spring Forward

Spring Forward is a film written by and was the directorial debut for Tom Gilroy, starring Ned Beatty, Liev Schreiber and Campbell Scott. Shot in sequence over the course of one year , it was released in 1999 by IFC Films and MGM for DVD....
 		 Georgia Film (supporting role)
2000 Baby Blues Ms. Brennan Series (guest)
2000 How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog is a 2000 in film American dramedy film written and directed by Michael Kalesniko and produced by Nancy M. Ruff....
 		 Debra Salhany Film (supporting role)
2001 Laughter on the 23rd Floor Carol Wyman TV movie (minor role)
2001 Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a computer animated science fiction film by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy series of console role-playing game....
 		 Officer Jane Proudfoot Voice
2003, 2004 King of the Hill Jo Rita, Mary Ellen Voice
2005 Uncommon Sense Tracy TV movie (supporting role)
2004, 2005 Danny Phantom Desiree Voice
2005 Thru the Moebius Strip Caroline Weir Voice
2005 Women of a Certain Age Dianne TV movie (supporting role)
2006 For the Love of a Child Sara TV movie (co-star)
2006 Hellboy: Sword of Storms Professor Kate Corrigan Voice
2007 Medium
Medium

Medium may refer to:...
  		Diane Benoit Series (guest)
2007 Hellboy: Blood and Iron Professor Kate Corrigan Voice
2007 Desperate Housewives Maggie Gilroy Series (guest)
2007 Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness Erin TV movie (co-star)
2007 Side Order of Life Celia Hutchinson Series (guest)
2007 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Grace Pardue Series (guest)
2008 Hellboy Animated: The Phantom Claw Professor Kate Corrigan Voice
2009 Perfect 10 Kim Wheeler TV movie (co-star)


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