Peri Gilpin
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Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay O'Brien on May 27, 1961, in Waco, Texas) is an actress best known for the role of Roz Doyle on the very successful U.S. television series Frasier, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Gilpin is one of the children of the late Jim O'Brien, a Baptist minister who became a musician and was later a well-known and respected radio and TV News weatherman/personality in Philadelphia until his death on September 25, 1983 in a skydiving accident. Her siblings, Marc Gilpin and April Gilpin, are also actors. Peri was known as Peri Kay Oldham before becoming an actress. She was raised in Dallas, Texas, and studied acting at the University of Texas at Austin and the British-American Academy in London. She married Christian Vincent on July 31, 1999. The couple adopted twins born via a surrogate mother in 2004.
Gilpin is the voice actress for the character Jane Proudfoot in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. She also provides the voice of Desiree in the Nickelodeon animated television series, Danny Phantom, and is the voice of Volcana in Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited. She was the voice actress for several Wells Fargo TV commercials.
She was named after the squirrel "Perri" from a Disney True-Life Adventures documentary. [1]
