Kelsey Grammer, Net worth American actor and producer, Allen Kelsey Grammer was born on February 21, 1955.

Grammer was born in St. Thomas, Virginia, to Frank Allen Grammer and Sally Cranmer. He had a younger sister, Karen, and four half-siblings from his father’s second marriage.

Many family tragedies shaped Grammer’s personal life. Grammer was raised by his mother and maternal grandparents, Gordon and Evangeline Cranmer, in New Jersey after his parents’ divorce.

Later, when Grammer was twelve, the family moved to Pompano Beach, Florida, and shortly thereafter his grandfather died of cancer.

A crazed taxi driver killed his father in St. Thomas in 1968. His sister was kidnapped, raped and killed in Colorado Springs in 1975. His two teenage half-brothers died in a diving accident in 1980.

In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Grammer attended the exclusive Pine Crest School preparatory school. It was there that he began singing and performing on stage.

Grammer then received a scholarship to study acting at the Juilliard School, where he was a member of Group 6 from 1973 to 1975. However, after the death of his sister, Grammer stopped going to school and eventually been released.

According to an interview Grammer gave to the Cayman Compass in 2019, he identified himself as “a Caribbean boy” who was “born in St. Thomas, USVI, and I’ve been back and forth a lot, I’ve been in the Bahamas, in St. . John and the Virgin Islands and the BVI.

Kelsey Grammer Career

Grammer made his professional acting debut as Lennox in the 1981 Broadway version of Macbeth after receiving acting training at Juilliard and the Old Globe Theater.

The following year, he played the role of Cassio in Othello alongside James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer. In 1983, he starred alongside Mandy Patinkin in Sunday in the Park with George, the first Off-Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim musical.

He has since starred in performances of My Fair Lady and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

In the hit film “X-Men: The Last Stand” (2006), he played Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast, which made him famous in the world of cinema. His other acting credits include Down Periscope (1996), The Pentagon Wars (1998) and Swing Vote (2008).

He is particularly known for voicing Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons and Anastasia (both 1997 films) and Toy Story 2 (1999). He has had appearances in the comedies Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Modern Family and 30 Rock.

He won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Television Series Drama for his portrayal of the dishonest mayor in the political drama Boss (2011–2012).

In 2010, Grammer made a return to Broadway in the revival of the musical La Cage aux Folles, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

Grammer produced a musical version of The Color Purple in 2016 and received a Tony Award for Best Musical. At the London Coliseum in 2019 he played Don Quixote in a performance of Man of La Mancha.

As psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane says in the NBC sitcoms Frasier (1993-2004) and Cheers (1984-1993) gained Grammer popularity.

It is one of the longest-running live-action roles ever played by a single actor in American television history, spanning nearly 20 years.

He has received numerous honors, including a total of five Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Tony Award. In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

How much is Kelsey Grammer worth?

Kelsey Grammer has an estimated net worth of around $80 million.