Trivia: For better or worse, leading actor Kelsey Grammer's name will probably forever be associated with the pompous, garrulous, and self-absorbed but lovable psychiatrist Frasier Crane, a character Grammer has played on television since he first appeared on the NBC sitcom Cheers, in 1984, as a love interest for Shelley Long. Though Frasier was not intended to become a series regular, Grammer's performance of the blowhard neurotic charmed audiences and he remained with Cheers through its 1993 demise. At the beginning of the 1993-1994 television season, Grammer's character was resurrected in his own show and moved from Boston to Seattle, where he became a radio psychologist and faced a whole slew of folks just waiting to poke metaphorical pins in his hot air balloon. Thanks to excellent performances and top-notch writing, Frasier became as big a hit as its predecessor. Grammer won three Emmy awards and was nominated for seven more (twice for Cheers, once for his guest appearance on a 1992 episode of Wings, four times for Frasier) for playing the character. Born on St. Thomas, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Grammer knew extreme tragedy in youth. Following the shooting death of his father when he was a boy, he was raised in New Jersey and then Florida, by his mother and grandfather. His grandfather died before Grammer became a teen. When he was 20, his sister was abducted and violently murdered. Five years later, he lost two half brothers in a diving accident. As a young man, Grammer found comfort in Shakespeare; with his acting debut in a high school production of The Little Foxes came an interest in pursuing drama as a career. He enrolled in Juilliard, but dropped out after two years to work at San Diego's Old Globe Theater, where he gained three years' invaluable experience performing in Shakespearean and classical dramas; afterward, Grammer performed in productions across the country. He eventually made it to Broadway, where he appeared in various productions, including Othello. Prior to playing Frasier, Grammer appeared occasionally on television and had regular roles in three soap operas, including One Life to Live. He continues to occasionally guest star on other series. Fans of the animated satire The Simpsons will recognize his periodic voice characterization as the venomous Sideshow Bob. Miniseries and telemovies in which he has appeared include London Suite and Beyond Suspicion. Grammer made his feature film debut with a small role in Top of the Hill (1989) and had his first starring role in the much-panned comedy Down Periscope (1996). In addition to his Emmy kudos, Grammer has received an American Comedy Award, two Golden Globes, and a People's Choice Award. In 1995, he published his autobiography So Far.Grammer would spend the following years taking on TV roles on shows like Back to You and Boss, but would find even more success as a producer, helping bring shows like The Game, Girlfriends, Hank, Medium, and World Cup Comedy to fruition. In 2014, he returned to acting in a big way, making a cameo appearance in X-Men: Days of Future Past, reprising his role as Beast, playing the bad guy in Transformers: Age of Extinction, and returning to television in the FX series Partners.

Trivia: In 1991, received an Ian Charleson Award commendation for her role in The Seagull. Released a cover of the Exciters' "Tell Him" alongside co-star Leslie Ash in 1996. Won the 2004 Best Comedy Actress award at the British Comedy Awards, for her role in Von Trapped. Is the president of the Campaign for National Parks. Is a patron of Coeliac UK.

Trivia: Never one to have scrounged for work while biding her time toiling away at odd jobs, British actress Tara Fitzgerald was one of those fortunate few who found success straight out of drama school. Reveling in the discipline and the "hard graft" that goes along with being an actress, she admits that her positive view of the industry may be idealistic, though is quick to mention that she takes nothing for granted.Born in London, England, the actress of stage and screen (and grand-niece of actress Geraldine Fitzgerald) acknowledges that her cinematic blessing was her screen debut in the old-fashioned romantic comedy Hear My Song (1991), which earned the actress positive notice. Avoiding the Hollywood trappings that shattered her youthful illusions of Tinseltown, Fitzgerald resides in Barnes, West London, with her fiancé, actor Dorian Healy.An actress with a penchant for roles in costume period dramas, Fitzgerald is equally comfortable on the small screen and the silver screen, often juggling the two between her stage roles. Fitzgerald appeared as Ophelia opposite Ralph Fiennes' Hamlet in the 1995 Broadway production, and her other stage work includes roles in Antigone (1999) and A Streetcar Named Desire (2000) (in the role of Blanche Dubois at the Bristol Old Vic).Fitzgerald gained wide recognition in 1995 in another romantic comedy, the exhaustingly titled The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, and appeared the next year as the flugelhorn-wielding muse opposite Ewan McGregor in Brassed Off. Following a series of lavish, made-for-television costume dramas, Fitzgerald returned to feature films with another eccentric small-town comedy, Conquest (1998).