Rosalinda “Roz” Doyle is a principal character on Frasier. She is portrayed by Peri Gilpin.
Rosalinda Doyle (born May 5, 1963 or 1964) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier. Roz is the producer of Frasier Crane's Dr.
The pair never got together because Frasier and Roz were fundamentally different people with radically opposite interests. Frasier delighted in the high-society pursuits of opera and great literature, while Roz partook in the less sophisticated pastimes of bars and Bruce Springsteen concerts.
This was primarily because they didn't want viewers to think that Frasier was simply riffing off with what Cheers did with Vera, Norm's (George Wendt) wife, who was often mentioned but never made it on screen. They planned on debuting Maris in episode 3, but the gag became too funny that they stuck with it.
Maris was famously kept offscreen for the entire run of Frasier - but she technically still "appeared" on the show twice. Maris was the wife of Niles Crane (David Hyde Pierce), but despite the Crane men making jokes about her aloof nature and appearance, the show also made it clear that Niles genuinely loved her too.
Maris Crane is Niles Crane's wife for much of the series, though she is never fully seen onscreen (much like Norm Peterson's wife, Vera, on Cheers). She is the most notable of the show's never-seen characters, and often the subject of many jokes. Her family is not revealed on the series.
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.
As a member of the Church of Scientology, Alley chose not to, though was never asked to, reprise her role as Rebecca Howe on any episode of Frasier, because the series was centered on the field of medical psychiatrists; she was the only former Cheers regular not to do so.
Now, Grammer has said in a new interview that Niles will not be in the series. “David basically decided he wasn't really interested in repeating the performance of Niles,” Grammer told People .
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.
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.
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.
In the first episode of Season 10, Daphne and Niles marry in a small, private ceremony in Reno, Nevada. The rest of Season 10 and early Season 11 show Daphne and Niles adjusting to their new life as a wedded couple.
Unlike many other series where characters' pregnancies were written in to accommodate the actress becoming pregnant in real life, this was not the case with Roz. Hers was purely a storyline invention, Peri Gilpin was not pregnant in real life.
The Frasier sequel series at Paramount+ casts an actor to play David Crane, Niles and Daphne's son who was born during the series finale.
David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is an American actor. He starred as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1993 to 2004, and won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award for the role.
While divorcing his wife Maris Crane, he suffers from stress-induced narcolepsy.
The Crane family keeps a tense vigil while Niles has open-heart surgery, each remembering various experiences they've had in hospitals. The Crane family keeps a tense vigil while Niles has open-heart surgery, each remembering various experiences they've had in hospitals.
Frasier's offscreen investments, his negotiated radio salary, and savings from high psychiatrist salary were lucrative enough to sustain himself, his costly tastes, and responsibilities.
John Lithgow was originally chosen by Cheers producers for the role, but turned it down. Grammer believed that he had failed the audition because no one laughed, but was chosen because of the quality of his performance with Danson.
During the first half of the tenth season, Sam and Rebecca try to conceive a child, but they realize they have no feelings for each other and then decide to stay friends. Towards the end of the show, Rebecca does little work, often mentioned by Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman).
In the season finale, "I Do, Adieu" (1987), Diane was offered the chance to fulfill her dream of becoming a writer, causing Sam and Diane to halt their wedding. Diane left Boston, promising Sam that she would return in six months.
When Jane Leeves got pregnant - just as Niles and Daphne were getting it on - the writers deftly penned Daphne a weighty storyline. Wardrobe ordered a fat suit and, lo, her pregnancy was veiled in foam.
By the start of the eighth season, Leeves was pregnant, and the writers incorporated her pregnancy into shows as weight gain due to her character's stress from her relationship with Niles (portrayed by David Hyde Pierce).
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.