Frasier Cast Where Are They Now
They're Calling Again. .. the Beloved Sitcom Frasier Marked the 30Th Anniversary of Its Premiere on Sept. 16, 2023, and Some Members of the Cast Are Returning...
They're calling again ...
The beloved sitcom Frasier marked the 30th anniversary of its premiere on Sept. 16, 2023, and some members of the cast are returning to the small screen beginning on Oct. 12, 2023, for a revival of the series on Paramount+.
In a chat with PEOPLE in 2022, star Kelsey Grammer said the new series is "a Frasier third act. It's an entirely new life for him."
The "first act," a Cheers spinoff and NBC hit, followed Dr. Frasier Crane through his work and personal life in Seattle, often infiltrated by his father, brother and colleagues.
Here, as the revival debuts, see the cast then and now.
Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane
Grammer joined the cast of Cheers early in his career — 1984, to be exact — growing his slightly neurotic psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane from Boston barfly to Seattle radio host on the 1993 spinoff, Frasier.
He won three Emmys for his work, and hasn't slowed down since, voicing Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons, starring in several Broadway productions and even joining daughter Spencer in a 2022 Lifetime holiday movie.
The actor — who has been touched by tragedy through the years, between murders that took his sister and father and a suspected shark attack that killed his step-brothers — is a father of seven kids, spanning ages 6 to 39, and has been married to fourth wife Kayte Walsh since 2011.
Grammer, 68, will return for the Frasier revival.
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David Hyde Pierce as Dr. Niles Crane
Pierce had dabbled in TV and movies before joining the cast of Frasier as the doc's younger brother, Niles, also a psychiatrist.
"If I turn on the television I'll happen on it and I'm always impressed by how they hold up," the four-time Emmy winner told Katie Couric in 2013. "It's about the writing more than anything else, the writing was so good, and wasn't too tied into specific events of the period. You get used to the clothes and the size of the portable phones. But people tell me all the time they're still laughing at it and that's a nice thing."
Though he isn't returning for the revival — Grammer said Pierce "wasn't really interested in repeating the performance" — he has been quite busy in the years since Frasier ended, starring in several Broadway productions and more recently as Julia Childs' husband Paul in HBO Max's Julia. Like Grammer, he did voice work on The Simpsons, too.
The two-time Tony Award winner, 64, has been with his husband, Brian Hargrove, for 40 years.
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