Peri Gilpin

Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay Oldham; May 27, 1961)[1] is an American actress. Best known for portraying Roz Doyle in the U.S. television series Frasier, Gilpin is also known for portraying Kim Keeler in the ABC Family television drama Make It or Break It.
== Early life ==
Gilpin was born in Waco, Texas, as Peri Kay Oldham, daughter of James Franklin Oldham and his wife Sandra Jo Hauck. After her parents divorced, her mother married Wes Gilpin in 1969. Peri then took her stepfather's surname, as her mother, a model and actress, thought that it would be fun for the whole family to work, often, together.
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 Academy in London.
Her birth father Jim became a Philadelphia weatherman, reporter, and television personality (ABC/WPVI Ch. 6) after beginning work there as a radio disc jockey (WFIL and The Steel Pier Show). He had always used the stage name Jim O'Brien. He tragically died in a skydiving accident on September 25, 1983.[2]
== Career ==
Gilpin appeared on the TV series Cheers, playing Holly Matheson in the 21st episode of the 11th season.
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 2000.
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. Though the pilot was not picked up by the network.[off topic]
Gilpin is the voice artist for the character Jane Proudfoot in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. She also 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: The Animated Series, 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 appeared on Law & Order and Law and Order: Criminal Intent. She starred alongside Teri Polo in the Lifetime movie For the Love of a Child. In 2012, Gilpin guest-starred with another Cheers stalwart, Ted Danson, in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. She also 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 ==
Since her mother's death from leiomyosarcoma,[3] Gilpin has led efforts for cancer research[4] through The Sarcoma Foundation of America (SFA).[3] Her sister, Patti Wynne (née Oldham), diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma in 2009,[5] participates with the SFA by advocating sarcoma awareness via her own case. She was once married to restaurateur Shannon Wynne. Patti and Marc and the late April Gilpin, their half-siblings by her mother's second marriage, also are actors with significant credits of their own. Some of them also have children: Sam, Spencer, Daisy and Presley, making Peri an aunt.
Gilpin married realist painter Christian Vincent on July 31, 1999 at Kelsey Grammer's house.[6] The couple have twins, Stella Mae and Ava Pearl, born by a surrogate mother on May 7, 2004.[7]Gilpin and Frasier co-star Jane Leeves share a long friendship. Jane is Stella’s godmother and Peri is Leeves’ daughter’s godmother. Gilpin and Leeves were next door neighbors for a while at the beach. [8]
== Filmography ==
=== Film ===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
1998	The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story 	Raksha the Wolf (voice) 	Direct-to-video
1999	Spring Forward 	Georgia 	
2000	How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog 	Debra Salhany 	
2001	Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within	Officer Jane Proudfoot (voice)	
2005	Thru the Moebius Strip 	Caroline Weir (voice) 	
2016	Flock of Dudes 	Adam's Mom 	
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1988 	21 Jump Street 	Fitzgerald 	Episode: "The Currency We Trade In"
1988 	Almost Grown 	Kim 	Episode: "Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney"
1990 	Matlock 	Leslie Matthews 	Episode: "The Pro"
1991 	Flesh 'n' Blood 	Irene 	12 episodes
1992 	Wings 	Barbara #242 	Episode: "Four Dates That Will Live in Infamy"
1993 	Designing Women 	Jade Herman 	Episode: "Shovel Off to Buffalo"
1993 	Cheers 	Holly Matheson 	Episode: "Woody Gets an Election"
1993–2004	Frasier 	Roz Doyle 	260 episodes
1993 	Pride & Joy 	Brenda 	Episode: "Brenda's Secret"
1995 	Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story	Charlotte Parks 	Television movie
1996 	The Outer Limits 	Dr. Rebecca Warfield 	Episode: "Out of Body"
1996 	Early Edition 	Lenore 	Episode: "After Midnight"
1998 	The Lionhearts 	Lana Lionheart (voice) 	13 episodes
1998 	Hercules: The Animated Series 	Hecate (voice) 	2 episodes
1998–1999	Superman: The Animated Series 	Volcana (voice) 	2 episodes
2000 	Baby Blues 	Ms. Brennan 	Episode: "Ugly Zoe"
2001 	Laughter on the 23rd Floor 	Carol Wyman 	Television movie
2003 	Justice League 	Volcana (voice) 	Episode: "Only a Dream"
2003–2009	King of the Hill 	Additional voices 	4 episodes
2004–2005	Danny Phantom 	Desiree (voice) 	2 episodes
2005 	Uncommon Sense 	Tracy 	Television movie
2005 	Women of a Certain Age 	Dianne 	Television movie
2006 	For the Love of a Child 	Sara O'Meara 	Television movie
2006 	Hellboy: Sword of Storms 	Professor Kate Corrigan (voice)	Television movie
2007 	Hellboy: Blood and Iron 	Professor Kate Corrigan (voice)	Television movie
2007 	Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness 	Erin Teller 	Television movie
2007 	Medium 	Diane Benoit 	Episode: "The Boy Next Door"
2007 	Desperate Housewives 	Maggie Gilroy 	Episode: "God, That's Good"
2007 	Side Order of Life 	Celia Hutchinson 	Episode: "Awakenings"
2007 	Law & Order: Criminal Intent 	Grace Pardue 	Episode: "Offense"
2009–2011	Make It or Break It 	Kim Keeler 	40 episodes
2011 	Hot in Cleveland 	Taylor 	Episode: "I Love Lucci: Part One"
2012 	Grey's Anatomy 	Marcy 	Episode: "Hope for the Hopeless"
2012–2013	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 	Barbara Russell 	3 episodes
2013 	Men at Work 	Alex Turner 	4 episodes
2013 	Modern Family 	Jeannie 	Episode: "The Help"
2013 	Drop Dead Diva 	Miss Ortiz 	Episode: "Jane's Secret Revealed"
2014 	The Choking Game 	Heidi 	Television movie
2014 	Masters of Sex 	Florence Duncan 	Episode: "Mirror, Mirror"
2015 	Mr. Robinson 	Eileen Taylor 	6 episodes
2015–2016	Scorpion 	Katherine Cooper 	5 episodes
2016 	Adam Ruins Everything 	Miss Pearl 	Episode: "Adam Ruins the Wild West"
2017 	A Dash of Love 	Holly Hanson 	Television movie
2017 	Broad City 	Joanne 	Episode: "Abbi's Mom"
2018 	Station 19 	 	Episode: "Reignited"