Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay Oldham on May 27, 1961 in Waco, Texas) is an American actress best known for her role as Roz Doyle on the U.S. television series Frasier from 1993 until 2004. Along with the principal cast, Gilpin won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2000.
Gilpin was named after the squirrel "Perri" from a Disney True Life Adventures documentary. She is one of the children of t...
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Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay Oldham on May 27, 1961 in Waco, Texas) is an American actress best known for her role as Roz Doyle on the U.S. television series Frasier from 1993 until 2004. Along with the principal cast, Gilpin won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2000.
Gilpin was named after the squirrel "Perri" from a Disney True Life Adventures documentary. She is one of the children of the late Jim O'Brien, a well-known and respected radio and television news weatherman/personality in Philadelphia until his death on September 25, 1983 in a skydiving accident, and Sandra Jo Hauck. After her mother died of cancer, Peri has led efforts for cancer research.
Peri's sister, Patti Jo Wynne, and her step-siblings by her mother's second marriage, Marc and April Gilpin, are also actors.
She married the realist painter Christian Vincent on July 31, 1999. The couple had twins, Stella and Ava, born via a surrogate mother on May 7, 2004....
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