Everything about Peri Gilpin totally explained
Peri Gilpin (born
Periwinkle Kay O'Brien on
May 27 1961, in
Waco, Texas) is an American
actress best known for the role of
Roz Doyle on the successful U.S.
television series Frasier, for which she won a
Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Biography
Youth
Gilpin is one of the children of the late
Jim O'Brien, a
Baptist minister who became a musician and was later a well-known and respected radio and TV News weatherman/personality in
Philadelphia until his death in a
skydiving accident on
September 25 1983. Her siblings, Marc Gilpin and April Gilpin, are also actors. Peri was known as Peri Kay Oldham before becoming an actress. She was raised in
Dallas, Texas, where she graduated from
Skyline High School, and studied acting at the
University of Texas at Austin and the British-American Academy in
London.
Career
With
Frasier co-star
Jane Leeves, 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, with
Kirstie Alley in the title role.
Gilpin is the
voice actress for the character Jane Proudfoot in . She also provides the voices of
Desiree in the
Nickelodeon animated television series,
Danny Phantom,
Volcana in and
Justice League Unlimited, and
Kate Corrigan in the
Hellboy animated films. She was the voice actress for several
Wells Fargo and Johnsonville Meats TV commercials. More recently Peri has appeared in the television series
Medium, as Diane Benoit, Allison Dubois's mother, and in the popular
Desperate Housewives. She has also appeared on
Law and Order, both the original (Public Service Homicide) and .
Personal life
She married Christian Vincent on
July 31 1999. The couple had
twins born via a
surrogate mother in
2004.
She was named after the squirrel "Perri" from a
Disney True-Life Adventures documentary.
Further Information
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