Kelsey Grammer Net Worth

Kelsey Grammer's Quotes

• Life is supposed to get tough.
• I lost a lot of stuff when Karen died. It took about a year to get back to even thinking that there might be a reason to go on.
• I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.
• [on his role as Tom Kane the brutal mayor of Chicago on Boss (2011)] He's an exciting character and a lot of fun to play. Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history. He says the worst, most politically incorrect things, even for the time the play is set in - and yet audiences adore that character. There's some similarity there with Tom Kane. The discovery of this man has been a discovery of things I've never done or said before.
• Actors are observers of human life, of human behavior. If you've any smarts and any powers of observation, you kind of know what's going on inside a person like Tom Kane, and you just bring it out naturally. It's part of who you are. That's what you're good at.

Interesting Facts about Kelsey Grammer

1. Has filed a lawsuit against Hamptons real estate broker Bettie Wysor of Dunemere Real Estate who put him and his wife next door to a construction site. The couple rented a mansion next door to advertising executive Jay Chiat in summer 1998. Kelsey was uninformed of Chiat's extensive renovation, and is suing Wyson for $100,000 for failing to warn him but Wysor says that work on Chiat's house was finished by the time the Grammers moved in. She claims the couple only used their place for three of the four weeks they had rented it for, and never complained to her about anything. [May 2000]
2. Spent a couple of weeks in the Betty Ford clinic for substance abuse. [October 1996]
3. His favorite episode of Cheers (1982) was Cheers: Dinner at Eight-ish (1987).
4. Served 30 days in jail for violating probation on DUI (1990).
5. His father was murdered in 1968 in the Virgin Islands. His sister, Karen Elisa Grammer, was murdered in 1975 while finishing a shift working at a Red Lobster in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Had two stepbrothers (from his father's second marriage) that were killed in a shark/scuba accident.
6. Signed a new second season deal for Frasier (1993). He will be getting about £1.1 million per episode. This makes him the highest paid television star ever (2001).
7. Is the only actor to be nominated for an Emmy Award for three television series, all for the same character (Frasier Crane in Cheers (1982), Frasier (1993) and a guest appearance on Wings (1990)).
8. His daughter, Spencer Grammer, was on the Cheers (1982) episode Cheers: One Hugs, the Other Doesn't (1992).
9. Had to have his appendix removed, only a few weeks after his Toy Story 2 (1999) co-star, Tim Allen, also had to have his appendix removed. Expected to make full recovery. [October 1999]
10. Wife Camille Grammer appeared on his situation comedy Frasier (1993), in the episode Frasier: Halloween (1997).
11. He filed suit against his former talent agency, Artists Agency, in order to recover $1.8 million in commissions. The current lawsuit comes on the heels of a Screen Actors Guild arbitration that has ordered him to pay the agency commissions withheld since 1998. Artists Agency is claiming that it has a right to claim ongoing profit participation in Frasier (1993), which means several million dollars in commissions with the series in syndication. He is charging that Artists Agency, which has represented him since the 1980s, didn't win him the role of Frasier Crane on either Cheers (1982) or Frasier (1993). In 1996, he switched agencies but continued to pay commission up to 1998, after which Artists Agency began arbitration. The arbitrator's ruling, which was handed down August 4, 2000, upholds a renewal agreement he says he was forced into signing and orders him to pay withheld commissions. [August 2000]
12. Daughter, Mason Olivia Grammer, was delivered by a surrogate mother October 24, 2001 in Los Angeles, California and weighed in at 8 pounds, 5 ounces.
13. Daughter, Spencer Grammer, born October 9, 1983, with Doreen Alderman.
14. Daughter, Greer Grammer, born February 15, 1992, with Barrie Buckner.
15. Has provided the voice of the Narrator for the Guthrie Theatre production of "A Christmas Carol" in 2000.
16. When series production of Frasier (1993) ended, Kelsey Grammer tied the record for longest role (Frasier Crane) portrayed by at single actor on prime-time television (Cheers (1982) and Frasier (1993)), at 20 years (1984-2004) Grammer is tied with James Arness for Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke (1955) (1955-1975).
17. On the Fox News debate show Hannity & Colmes (1996), he said that he would like to run for public office someday, perhaps U.S. Senator from California.
18. In memory of his sister who was raped and murdered, he named his daughter Spencer Karen (Karen was his sister's first name).
19. Attended high school at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, one of the most prestigious high schools in the country.
20. Began his acting career at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis.