Where Is the ‘Frasier’ Cast, 32 Years Later? All About the Stars’ Lives Now
NEED TO KNOW
- The Cheers spinoff Frasier starred Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane
- The sitcom also featured John Mahoney, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin, Jane Leeves and Bebe Neuwirth
- Frasier premiered 32 years ago on Sept. 16, 1993
It’s been 32 years since viewers first fell in love with the Frasier characters.
The Cheers spinoff sitcom, which premiered on Sept. 16, 1993, starred Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane as he returned to his hometown of Seattle to start a new life as a radio host. However, Frasier’s life gets more complicated when he reconnects with his dad, Martin (John Mahoney), and brother, Niles (David Hyde Pierce).
The series also starred Peri Gilpin as Roz Doyle, Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon and Bebe Neuwirth as Lilith Sternin. In addition, the beloved pup Eddie was played by a Jack Russell terrier named Moose.
Nearly 30 years after Frasier premiered, in October 2023, Grammer starred in the Frasier revival. The series ran for two seasons before PEOPLE confirmed in January 2025 that it had not been picked up by Paramount+ for a third season.
Here’s everything to know about where the cast of Frasier is now, over three decades since it premiered.
Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane
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Grammer joined the cast of Cheers early in his career — 1984, to be exact — growing his slightly neurotic psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane from Boston barfly to Seattle radio host on the 1993 spinoff, Frasier.
He has won a total of six Emmy Awards for his work, and hasn’t slowed down since, voicing Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons, starring in several Broadway productions and even joining daughter Spencer in a 2022 Lifetime holiday movie.
The actor — who has been touched by tragedy through the years, between murders that took his sister and father and a suspected shark attack that killed his step-brothers — is a father to seven kids and has been married to his fourth wife, Kayte Walsh, since 2011.
Grammer returned for the Frasier revival in 2023 and told the New York Post in March 2025 that he felt “very positive” about the show returning for a third season on a different network.
“There’s a better home for it,” he said.
David Hyde Pierce as Dr. Niles Crane
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Pierce had dabbled in TV and movies before joining the cast of Frasier as the doc’s younger brother, Niles, who is also a psychiatrist.
“If I turn on the television I’ll happen on it and I’m always impressed by how they hold up,” the four-time Emmy winner told Katie Couric in 2013. “It’s about the writing more than anything else, the writing was so good, and wasn’t too tied into specific events of the period. You get used to the clothes and the size of the portable phones. But people tell me all the time they’re still laughing at it and that’s a nice thing.”
Though he didn’t return for the 2023 revival — Grammer told PEOPLE Pierce “wasn’t really interested in repeating the performance” — he has been quite busy in the years since Frasier ended, starring in several Broadway productions and more recently as Julia Child‘s husband, Paul, in HBO Max’s Julia. Like Grammer, he did voice work on The Simpsons, too.
The two-time Tony Award winner has been with his husband, Brian Hargrove, since 1982.
Jane Leeves as Daphne Moon
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Leeves had roles on Seinfeld, Murphy Brown and Throb before joining Frasier as patriarch Martin’s witty live-in caretaker — and eventually Niles’ wife.
As the series wound down, she followed in her costars’ footsteps, going to Broadway for a stint as Sally Bowles in Cabaret. She later struck TV gold once again on the sitcom Hot in Cleveland, alongside Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick and Betty White.
Leeves has two children with her husband, television executive Marshall Coben.
Peri Gilpin as Roz Doyle
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Gilpin had a string of TV shows under her belt — most notably Flesh ‘n’ Blood — when she landed the role of Frasier’s colleague Roz on Frasier (a role that almost went to Lisa Kudrow!).
And like her costars, Gilpin has stayed busy on the small screen ever since, picking up voice work in addition to parts on Scorpion, Make It or Break It and Mrs. Robinson, which also starred Grammer’s daughter, Spencer.
The actress returned to the Frasier revival in 2023 as a guest star. Off-screen, Gilpin is married to artist Christian Vincent, and the pair have two children.
Bebe Neuwirth as Dr. Lilith Sternin
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Coming with Grammer from Cheers was Neuwirth, who played Lilith, his icy ex and mother of his child.
She got her start onstage, featuring in A Chorus Line, Dancin’, Little Me and Sweet Charity before Frasier took off. A two-time Tony winner, she returned to Broadway after the series, in shows including Damn Yankees, Fosse, Funny Girl, Chicago and The Addams Family, though she has kept up with TV and movie work too, on Deadline, Madam Secretary and in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
She also returned to the Frasier revival in a guest-starring role. When she’s at home, Neuwirth spends time with her second husband, Chris Calkins, whom she married in 2009.
John Mahoney as Martin Crane
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Mahoney got his start on the Chicago stage, joining the storied Steppenwolf Theatre after immigrating from England.
“The theater is my brothers, my sisters, my father, my mother, my wife,” he once said. “It is everything to me.”
His Emmy-nominated work as Niles and Frasier’s retired dad was his most notable TV role, though he did appear on several episodes each of In Treatment and Leeves’ Hot in Cleveland, in addition to voicing a Simpsons character with his TV sons.
He eventually returned to stage work, though, starring in the Broadway revival of the play Prelude to a Kiss, Better Late and The Outgoing Tide at the Northlight Theatre in Illinois.
The actor died in 2018 at age 77.
Moose as Eddie
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As much of a character as any of the humans on the series, pup Eddie — played by Jack Russell terrier Moose — lived a long life, dying in 2006 at age 16. He was “extremely mischievous,” trainer Mathilde Halberg told PEOPLE at the time.
The dog also portrayed Skip in the 2000 film, My Dog Skip.
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