Frasier Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
15th November 2013
Fact: Former Frasier star David Hyde Pierce is returning to the Christopher Durang's play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike as a director for the show's Los Angeles premiere next year (14). The actor took a leading role in the production when it opened in New York last year (12), and now he's replacing director Nicholas Martin for the show's Mark Taper Forum run, which will star Christine Ebersole.
28th February 2013
Quote: "I watched hours of Frasier. I'd sit there and just watch Frasier continuously; I'd never seen it before." British actor Nicholas Hoult on how he prepared to play Hank MCCoy/Beast in X-Men: First Class. His character was a younger version of the one Kelsey Grammer played in X-Men: The Last Stand.
20th December 2012
Fact: Former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer has put his $6.5 million (£3.9 million), five-bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills, California up for rent for $30,000 (£18,450) a month.
19th December 2012
Fact: Former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer will host the Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles on 2 February (13). The actor also compered the 2012 event.
15th August 2012
Fact: Former Frasier star David Hyde Pierce managed to double his money on the sale of his Los Angeles mansion. The actor purchased his home in Los Feliz for around $3.6 million (£2.3 million) in 2003 and sold it last month (Jul12) for just over $7 million (£4.4 million).
8th May 2012
Fact: Former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer has reportedly spent $6.5 million (£4 million) on a lavish new pad in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles for him and his pregnant wife Kayte Walsh, who is due to give birth to twins later this year (12). The Mediterranean-style mansion boasts six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a swimming pool and a guest house, according to Realtor.com.
20th April 2012
Fact: Former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer was honoured with the Career Achievement Award at the 48th annual Hugo Television Awards in Chicago, Illinois on Thursday (19Apr12).
5th April 2012
Fact: Former Frasier star Peri Gilpin is to play the wife of Ted Danson's Csi: Crime Scene Investigation character in upcoming episodes of the TV forensics drama.
31st May 2011
Quote: "Just as when I sat down to do the first read-through with Frasier there was that indefinable something where you get butterflies in your tummy because you know it is working, we had the same chemistry and butterflies in the Hot In Cleveland read-through." British actress Jane Leeves was convinced her new U.S. show would work out well.
25th May 2011
Quote: "Peri travelled to London with me. We both had big birthdays this year, I just turned 50... so we're having a little bit of a girls' celebration." Actress Jane Leeves is marking her recent milestone birthday with a fun trip to the U.K. with her former Frasier co-star Peri Gilpin, who turns 50 on Friday (27May11).
12th April 2011
Fact: Former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer has launched a production company to focus solely on reality TV. G3 Productions' first project will be a show revolving around the three single girls who founded New York social commentary website ThatsNotOkayNY.com, according to Tmz.com.
11th February 2011
Quote: "After all this I still believe in love, and while I am focusing on my kids and work at the moment, I hope I meet someone in the future." Kelsey Grammer's ex-wife Camille is refusing to let the end of her 14-year marriage to the Frasier star taint her outlook on love and life. The former couple's divorce was finalised on Thursday (10Feb11).
27th January 2011
Quote: "This year's journey is about enhancing love in my life, and Kayte is responsible for a great deal of that." Former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer lavishes praise on his fiancee, KAYTE WALSH, for turning his life around.
12th December 2010
Quote: "I mean we're close but we don't hang out or anything. But I'd love to go to the wedding Kelsey!" Actress Bebe Neuwirth makes a public appeal to her former Frasier co-star Kelsey Grammer for an invitation to his upcoming wedding to KAYTE WALSH.
14th June 2010
Quote: "We have dinner all the time, we saw each other a few weeks ago, we're just not together on camera." David Hyde Pierce insists he remains close to his Frasier co-star Kelsey Grammer, six years after the hit TV sitcom came to an end.
22nd April 2010
Fact: Actor David Hyde Pierce is to receive a special humanitarian honour at this year's Tony Awards. The former Frasier star will pick up the Isabelle Stevenson award at the annual ceremony in New York on 13 June (10), for his work in fighting Alzheimer's disease and his longtime involvement with the Alzheimer's Association.
2nd September 2009
Quote: "I wish I had done one more year so I could have beat James Arness for longest-running characters (on television), but tying was an honour. And it was time to move on." Kelsey Grammer has a few regrets about not playing TV shrink Frasier CRANE for one more season of FRASIER.
2nd August 2007
Fact: Former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer's 15-year-old daughter GREER has been crowned Miss Teen Malibu 2008 in a Caliornia beauty pageant.
15th February 2007
Fact: Former Frasier star Peri Gilpin will play Patricia Arquette's mother in an upcoming episode of hit US TV show MEDIUM.
24th July 2006
Fact: Frasier star John Mahoney, who played FRASIER's father MARTIN on the show, will star as an drag queen on medical drama ER this autumn (06).
15th May 2006
Quote: "I never actually watched that show (Frasier). But he has a very distinctive voice. It was actually more like 'SIDESHOW BOB is THE BEAST?' That was cool." X-MEN star Anna Paquin loved working alongside Kelsey Grammer's dulcet tones.
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