Personal life. Leeves is married to Marshall Coben, a CBS Paramount Television executive. Peri Gilpin, Leeves's co-star on Frasier, is her neighbor and close friend and was in the delivery room when Leeves's first child was born.
The cast of Frasier were notably close. Grammer calls Pierce the brother he never had. Along with the late John Mahoney, who played their dad, Martin, Pierce is godfather to Leeves's son. “David is a very easy person to love,” emails Leeves.
Staying close with the Frasier cast
Gilpin is still close friends with several of the main cast members, considering Jane Leeves, who played Daphne Moon, to be one of her best friends.
Daphne Moon is a beloved character that receives some of Frasier's best storylines, but Kelsey Grammer initially objected to Jane Leeves' role. Daphne Moon (Jane Leeves) is a beloved character and integral part of Frasier, but she was originally rejected by star Kelsey Grammer.
Paramount+ confirmed Tuesday that Peri Gilpin is returning for its upcoming “Frasier” reboot. Gilpin will reprise her role as Roz Doyle, Frasier's producer, as a guest star.
Kelsey Grammer has only 2 minutes and 46 seconds of screen time in this episode, making it the only time he appears in the form of a cameo, as he was being treated for his addiction problems. As result, it was re-written and entirely centered around Niles (David Hyde Pierce).
Jane Leeves does not appear in this episode. Daphne is returning home from the weight spa after her recent struggles with weight.
Jane Leeves' pregnancy
The baby that Niles and Daphne have at the end of the show is not a result of a real life pregnancy of Jane Leeves, the actress who plays Daphne. However, she was pregnant earlier in the show. In season 8 the actress got pregnant and it was simply written into the show as a weight gain.
Daphne Sported An Actual Baby Bump
So much so that she put on weight and even sported a bulging tummy for the majority of Season 8. In real life, Jane Leeves was pregnant at the time, and Daphne getting fat was written into the show to explain her baby bump.
Role in Frasier
My wife had left me, which was very painful. Then she came back to me, which was excruciating. ... So I ended the marriage once and for all, packed up my things, and moved back here to my home town of Seattle. Actress Bebe Neuwirth reprises the role of Lilith in several episodes of Frasier.
Despite these prompts, however, Roz and Frasier remained only friends, and since neither of them found a lasting relationship by the show's end, one wonders why they didn't at least give it a try. The pair never got together because Frasier and Roz were fundamentally different people with radically opposite interests.
Rather than tell him she can't see a future for them, she pretends to be married to Niles. Daphne's ex-fiancé Clive visits her in Seattle to declare that he still loves her. Rather than tell him she can't see a future for them, she pretends to be married to Niles.
That worked out to $14.4 million before taxes. Over the final two season's 48 episodes, she earned $24 million.
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A man of merit he remains to this day." "John was a kind man, and the world cannot afford to lose a kind man at any time," Grammer added of his late friend.
While Grammer does not have a history of heart trouble, he has had well-chronicled problems with drug and alcohol addiction.
Jane Leeves was pregnant twice during Frasier. While her second pregnancy was written into the final season, her first wasn't and the writers gave Daphne a storyline where she gains weight instead.
Niles was never mentioned, simply because he literally didn't exist, as just as part of Frasier's backstory on Cheers. He also didn't exist for Frasier until a casting director noticed David Hyde Pierce's resemblance to Kelsey Grammer.
“Daphne has a Manchester accent,” Leeves told the Los Angeles Times in 1995. “That's because the character is a working-class character and it sounds more working class. If I did Daphne the way I talk, it wouldn't be right. It wouldn't give her that working-class edge.”
She has a brief fling with a co-worker, Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe (much to her later chagrin). Early in the fifth season, Roz discovers that she is pregnant with the child of a 20-year-old college student with whom she had a brief fling.
4 Jane Leeves - $16 Million
Jane Leeves is best known in America for her role as Daphne Moon on Frasier. The role earned her many Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Award nominations.
According to Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce decided not to return as Niles on Paramount+'s revival of Frasier because he didn't want to repeat his performance of the character.
He sues Daphne for emotional distress and breach of contract.
Daphne is pregnant, and she and Niles are keen to make an official announcement to the family over dinner.