Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay Oldham, May 27, 1961) is an American actress known for her role as Roz Doyle in 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. She has also received a Gracie Award in the category of "Outstanding Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama Series" for her performance in the ABC Family drama Make It or Break It.
Gilpin studied acting at the University of Texas at Austin and the British-American Academy in London. She began using the moniker "Peri Gilpin" (using her stepfather's surname) after becoming a professional actress. She is the daughter of the late Philadelphia weatherman and radio disc jockey Jim O'Brien, who was killed in 1983 during a parachute dive while saving the life of another skydiver.
Gilpin appeared on the TV series Cheers, playing Holly Matheson in the 21st episode of the eleventh season.
From 1993 until 2004, Gilpin played Roz Doyle in the television series Frasier, on which she co-starred alongside fellow Cheers guest star John Mahoney. Along with the principal cast, Gilpin won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2000.
Make It or Break It (sometimes referred to as MIOBI) is an American television drama series that focuses on the lives of teen gymnasts who strive to make it to the Olympic Games. It premiered on ABC Family on June 22, 2009, with 2.5 million viewers. The show was picked up for an additional 10 episodes on July 27, 2009, which started airing on January 4, 2010, bringing the number of episodes in the first season to 20. In January 2010, the show was renewed for a second season, which premiered on June 28, 2010 at 10PM. Starting on July 13, new episodes aired following Pretty Little Liars. Internationally, the show airs on E4 in the United Kingdom,Cafe in India, FOX8 in Australia and on TV2 in New Zealand. The show's second season resumed after a six-month hiatus on March 28, 2011. The series was renewed for a third season on September 16, 2011, which premiered on March 26, 2012. It was announced on April 26, 2012 that the series had ended and the third season will be its last. The series finale aired on May 14, 2012.
Melissa Joan Rivers (born January 20, 1968) is an American television host, producer and the daughter of Joan Rivers.
Rivers was born Melissa Warburg Rosenberg in Manhattan on January 20, 1968, the only child of Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg. She is of Russian descent on her mother's side and German on her father's side.
Rivers attended the private John Thomas Dye School in Bel-Air and then The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California. She is a 1989 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in European History. She was a founding member of the Tabard Society, an off-campus secret society for women.[citation needed]
Rivers married horse trainer John Endicott in December 1998 at the Manhattan, New York Plaza Hotel in an extravagant $3 million Dr. Zhivago-themed winter wonderland wedding. They divorced in 2003.[citation needed] She has one son named Edgar Cooper Endicott (born on December 1, 2000) who features with Rivers and her mother in the reality show Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best?
Rosalinda "Roz" Doyle is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier. She is played by Peri Gilpin. Roz is the producer of Frasier Crane's Dr. Frasier Crane Show on KACL 780AM. Although initially reluctant to take the job, she and Frasier soon become good friends.
The character is named as a tribute to a producer of the television series Wings (having the same creators as Frasier), who died from breast cancer in 1991.
Lisa Kudrow was originally given the role but was fired before the pilot, in which she was replaced by Gilpin.
Roz was born in Bloomer, Wisconsin on May 5th. Her mother Joanna was a longtime politician there and serves as Attorney General. She has one sibling, a sister, Denise, whose supposedly "perfect" life prompts a great deal of resentment by Roz. Roz's parents are divorced and she maintains relationships with both of them, until her father re-marries a younger woman, which confuses Roz greatly and ultimately ends her relationship with her dad. Her grandmother was an immigrant from Ireland. Frustrated with small-town Wisconsin, Roz moved to Seattle as an adult to pursue a career in radio, and worked in the industry for about ten years before joining Frasier.