Peri Gilpin

Peri Gilpin is an American actress who began taking drama classes at the Dallas Children's Theater as a child and later studied drama at the University of Texas at Austin before training in London. She apprenticed for five summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where she got her first major starring part in Hawthorne Country. She joined Actors Equity in 1988 and appeared on Cheers in 1993, the same year she took the role of Roz Doyle on Frasier, a part she played until 2004; she landed the role after a casting call that attracted more than 300 actresses. The ensemble won a Screen Actors Guild Award in 1999. Gilpin later appeared on Make It or Break It, receiving a Gracie Award for her supporting work. In Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001), she voiced Jane Proudfoot, and she played Kate Corrigan in the Hellboy animated films (2006 and 2007). She reprised Roz Doyle in the 2023 Frasier reboot.