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Quick facts for kids Peri Gilpin
Gilpin in 2011
Born	Peri Kay Oldham (1961-05-27) May 27, 1961 (age 63) Waco, Texas, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1988–present
Notable credit(s)	Roz Doyle in Frasier Kim Keeler in Make It or Break It
Spouse(s)	Christian Vincent ​ (m. 1999)​
Children	2
Parent(s)	Jim O'Brien (father)

Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay Oldham; May 27, 1961) is an American actress who portrayed Roz Doyle in the NBC sitcom Frasier and Kim Keeler in the ABC Family drama series Make It or Break It.

Early life

Gilpin was born in Waco, Texas, as Peri Kay Oldham, daughter of James Franklin Oldham, a broadcaster who became known as Jim O'Brien, and his wife Sandra Jo Hauck. After her parents divorced, her mother married Wes Gilpin in 1969. Gilpin then took her stepfather's surname.

Gilpin grew up in Dallas, where her family encouraged her acting abilities. After studying at the Dallas Theater Center, she pursued acting at the University of Texas at Austin and the British American Drama Academy in London.

Career

Gilpin appeared on the TV series Cheers, playing Holly Matheson in the 21st episode of the 11th season, which aired in April 1993.

From 1993 until 2004, Gilpin played Roz Doyle in the television series Frasier, a spin-off of Cheers, starring Kelsey Grammer as Frasier Crane, the role he had played on Cheers since 1984. Along with the principal cast, Gilpin won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 1999.

On an interview with Access Daily Gilpin said, we (Frasier) only had 9 (shows) we didn't know if we would get picked up or not. She mentioned that the pilot was shot in two hours. "(Initially) We only had nine (episodes); we didn't have a pickup (a deal). Kelsey (Grammer) had been doing Cheers on the same set for nine years... the same crew... it was heady." John Mahoney told the cast "Don't get a big head. Stop it... (referring to thinking of themselves as being something special)... My brother did a lot more as a kid than I did... my little sister too." Gilpin said her mother was known as Mrs. Baird in local Dallas tv commercials and her brother was "the Dairy Queen dude." Her sister also performed. We were the von Gilpins (referencing the Trapp family also known as the von Trapps).

When asked if her children want to be in acting Gilpin said, "Zero (they don't have any interest). I would support it if they wanted to (perform)... I love it (acting)." Gilpin said they burned out after being in about six years of theater camp. "They don't ever want to do it again."

She talked about how Jane Leeves and her husband Marshall Coben, a CBS Paramount tv executive, lived two houses away from her family "for most of their (children's) childhood". Leeves is the children's godmother and Gilpin is the godmother to Leeves' children. When the Coben children watch Frasier they exclaim, "Jane, there's Jane..." Gilpin laughs, "I'm in it too."

In 2009, Gilpin appeared in the ABC Family drama Make It or Break It, for which she received a Gracie Award in the category of "Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama Series".

Gilpin and Frasier co-star Jane Leeves ran a production company, Bristol Cities (named from the cockney rhyming slang), whose projects included a Fox network pilot titled Minister of Divine, an American remake of the British sitcom The Vicar of Dibley with Kirstie Alley (another Cheers regular) in a starring role.

Gilpin is the voice artist for the character Jane Proudfoot in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. She provided the voices of Desiree in the Nickelodeon animated television series Danny Phantom, Volcana in Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League, Hecate in Hercules, and Kate Corrigan in the Hellboy animated films. Gilpin also did voice work for several Wells Fargo and Johnsonville Meats TV commercials.

Gilpin has appeared on the television series Medium and Desperate Housewives. She has a supporting role on the television series Make It or Break It and has appeared on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. She also starred alongside Teri Polo in the Lifetime film For the Love of a Child. In 2012, Gilpin guest-starred with another Cheers alum, Ted Danson, in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She had a recurring role in Men at Work on TBS as editor of Full Steam magazine. In the second season of Scorpion, she was introduced as Katherine Cooper, a team superior in homeland security.

Personal life

On July 31, 1999, Gilpin married painter Christian Vincent. They have twins who were born on May 7, 2004.

Her mother died of leiomyosarcoma in 1997. Gilpin has led efforts supporting cancer research awareness since the time her mother was diagnosed with the disease.

Gilpin's brother Marc Gilpin died July 29, 2023 from complications from glioblastoma, a brain tumor. He was a child star who appeared in Jaws 2, other movies and television shows. He was 56.

Filmography

Film

Television