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Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955) is an American actor, producer, and singer. He gained fame for his role as the psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1984–1993) and its spin-off Frasier (1993–2004, and again from 2023 to 2024). With more than 20 years on air, this is one of the longest-running roles played by a single live-action actor in primetime television history. He has received numerous accolades, including a total of six Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Tony Award. Grammer, having trained as an actor at Juilliard and the Old Globe Theatre, made his professional acting debut as Lennox in the 1981 Broadway revival of Macbeth. The following year, he portrayed Cassio acting opposite Christopher Plummer and James Earl Jones in Othello. In mid-1983, he acted alongside Mandy Patinkin in the original off-Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sunday in the Park with George. He has since starred in the leading roles in productions of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, My Fair Lady, Big Fish, and Finding Neverland. In film, he is known for his role as Dr. Hank McCoy / Beast in the superhero films X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and The Marvels (2023). His other roles include Down Periscope (1996), The Pentagon Wars (1998), and Swing Vote (2008). He is also known for his voice roles in Anastasia (1997), Toy Story 2 (1999), and as Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons (1990–present). He took guest roles in the sitcoms 30 Rock (2010–2012), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2016), and Modern Family (2017). For his performance as the corrupt mayor in the Starz political series Boss (2011–2012), he received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama. In early 2010, Grammer returned to Broadway in the musical revival of La Cage aux Folles, where he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. In mid-2016, Grammer won a Tony Award for Best Musical as producer of a musical revival of The Color Purple. In early 2019, he starred as Don Quixote in a production of Man of La Mancha at the London Coliseum. In late 2023, The Telegraph described Grammer as one of "the finest actors" of his generation. He was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May 22, 2001. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kelsey Grammer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Kelsey Grammer
Cliff Hargrove
for Cliff Hargrove in Signs Preceding the End of the World
Suggested by sepanta_kazemi
Makina is a young woman who moves with quiet precision and sharp instincts. When word reaches her that her brother vanished somewhere in the United States, she steps into the desert with a single mission: cross the border and bring him home. The journey pulls her into a world built on whispers, debts, and shifting loyalties. She slips through cartel safe zones, rides with a coyote who may or may not be trustworthy, and survives a landscape where every shadow hides a threat. The border is not a line. It’s a maze. A test. A place where people vanish without a sound. On the other side, the world feels familiar and foreign at the same time. New streets, new rules, and a language that cuts off pieces of her identity. Makina is forced to navigate neighborhoods where migrants live in the cracks, where authority watches from behind dark glass, and where the wrong move can send someone back across the desert… or worse. But Makina doesn’t break. She observes. She adapts. She pushes forward. As the search draws her deeper into this strange new world, the trail toward her brother becomes more tangled, and Makina must decide how far she is willing to go — and how much of herself she is willing to lose — to bring her family together again. A tense, atmospheric journey through borders seen and unseen. A story about survival, identity, and the quiet strength of someone who refuses to disappear.
