Peri Gilpin Biography

Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay Oldham; May 27, 1961) is an American actress known for portraying Roz Doyle in the U.S. television series Frasier and Kim Keeler in the ABC Family television drama Make It or Break It.

Early life

Peri was born in Waco, Texas, as Peri Oldham, daughter of James Franklin Oldham - known professionally as Jim O'Brien and his wife Sandra Jo Hauck. Her parents divorced and her mother got remarried in 1969 to Allen W Gilpin Jr. Peri then took her step-father's surname

Peri 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. She began using the name "Peri Gilpin" after becoming a professional actress.

Her birthfather Jim became the Philadelphia weatherman and radio disc jockey under his stage name Jim O'Brien, and was a well known and respected radio and TV News weatherman/personality in Philadelphia in the '70s and early 80s. He died in a skydiving accident on September 25, 1983.

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. However, the pilot was not picked up by the network.

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. Currently she also has a small, 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 superior in homeland security above the Scorpion team.

Personal life

Since her mother's death from leiomyosarcoma, Gilpin has led efforts for cancer research through The Sarcoma Foundation of America (SFA). Her sister, Patti Oldham Wynne, diagnosed with leiomyosarcoma in 2009, participates with SFA by sharing access to her case and sarcoma awareness advocacy. Patti and Marc and April Gilpin, their half-siblings by her mother's second marriage, also are actors with 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. The couple has twins, Stella Mae and Ava Pearl, born by a surrogate mother on May 7, 2004. She is godmother to Frasier co-star Jane Leeves's daughter Isabella, and Leeves is godmother to Peri's daughter Stella. Gilpin and Leeves also have lived near the ocean, next door to each other, in the greater Los Angeles area.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	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)
2014	The Choking Game	Heidi	Television movie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	21 Jump Street	Fitzgerald	Episode: "The Currency We Trade In"
	Almost Grown	Kim	Episode: "Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney"
1990	Matlock	Leslie Matthews	Episode: "The Pro"
1991	Flesh 'n' Blood	Irene
1992	Wings	Barbara #242	Episode: "Four Dates That Will Live in Infamy"
1993	Designing Women	Jade Herman	Episode: "Shovel Off to Buffalo"
	Cheers	Holly Matheson	Episode: "Woody Gets an Election"
1993-2004	Frasier	Roz Doyle
1995	Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story	Charlotte Parks	TV Movie
	Pride & Joy	Brenda	Episode: "Brenda's Secret"
1996	The Outer Limits	Dr. Rebecca Warfield	Episode: "Out of Body"
	Early Edition	Lenore	Episode: "After Midnight"
1998	The Lionhearts	Lana Lionheart (voice)
	Hercules: The Animated Series	Hecate (voice)	Episodes: "Hercules and the Underworld Takeover" "Hercules and the Disappearing Heroes"
1998-1999	Superman: The Animated Series	Volcana (voice)	"Where There's Smoke" "Unity"
2000	Baby Blues	Ms. Brennan	Episode: "Ugly Zoe"
2001	Laughter on the 23rd Floor	Carol Wyman	TV movie
2003	Justice League	Volcana (voice)	Episode: "Only a Dream"
2003-2009	King of the Hill	Additional voices
2005	Uncommon Sense	Tracy	TV movie
2004-2005	Danny Phantom	Desiree (voice)	Episodes: "What You Want" "Memory Blank"
2005	Women of a Certain Age	Dianne	TV movie
2006	For the Love of a Child	Sara O'Meara	TV movie
	Hellboy: Sword of Storms	Professor Kate Corrigan (voice)	TV movie
2007	Medium	Diane Benoit	Episode: "The Boy Next Door"
	Hellboy: Blood and Iron	Professor Kate Corrigan (voice)	TV movie
	Desperate Housewives	Maggie Gilroy	Episode: "God, That's Good"
	Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness	Erin Teller	TV movie
	Side Order of Life	Celia Hutchinson	Episode: "Awakenings"
	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Grace Pardue	Episode: "Offense"
2009-2011	Make It or Break It	Kim Keeler
2011	Hot in Cleveland	Taylor	Episode: "I Love Lucci: Part One"
2012	Grey's Anatomy	Marcie	Episode: "Hope for the Hopeless"
2012-2013	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Barbara Russell	Episodes: "Homecoming" "Karma to Burn" "Pick and Roll" "Passed Pawns"
2013	Men at Work	Alex Turner	Episodes: "The New Boss" "Downshift" "Long Distance Tyler"
	Modern Family	Jeannie	Episode: "The Help"
	Drop Dead Diva	Miss Ortiz	Episode: "Jane's Secret Revealed"
2015	Mr. Robinson	Eileen Taylor	Series regular
2015-present	Scorpion	Katherine Cooper	Recurring