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Kelsey Grammer

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Kelsey Grammer

TV and Movie Actor


Who is Kelsey Grammer?

Kelsey Grammer is an American television and movie actor who is probably best known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC television sitcoms Cheers and Frasier. He has won a number of Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and American Comedy Awards. More recently he has won a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor in 2014.

Famous Kin

Kelsey Grammer has kinship to a few U.S. Presidents including Martin Van Buren, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford. A couple of other world leaders in his family tree are British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill and Canadian Prime Ministers Pierre and Justin Trudeau. First Lady Hilary Clinton is also a cousin through their shared French Canadian ancestors.

Kelsey Grammer has a number of fellow celebrities in his family tree including actress Hilary Swank, and actors Christopher Lloyd and James Dean. Other notable kin for Kelsey Grammer include historian Nathaniel Philbrick, Columbian Exposition serial killer Dr. H. H. Holmes, western author Louis L'Amour, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, and poet Robert Frost.


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Kelsey Grammer

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Matthew Modine

TV and Movie Actor

15th cousin 2 times removed
via Robert White

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Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

21st cousin
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Alec Baldwin

Television and Movie Actor

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Kate Brown

38th Governor of Oregon

12th cousin
via Rev. Stephen Bachiler

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Mark Gordon

33rd Governor of Wyoming

17th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Walter Hungerford

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Rome Odunze

NFL Wide Receiver

11th cousin 2 times removed
via Richard Samborne

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Keri Russell

TV and Movie Actress

11th cousin 1 time removed
via Richard Samborne

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Betty Gilpin

TV and Movie Actress

21st cousin
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Meldrim Thomson Jr.

73rd Governor of New Hampshire

14th cousin 1 time removed
via Robert White

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John W. Johnston

U.S. Senator from Virginia

14th cousin 7 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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General Joseph E. Johnston

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

13th cousin 8 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Mike Castle

69th Governor of Delaware

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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George Plimpton

Sports writer, Humorist, and Journalist

17th cousin 4 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Clare Eames

Silent Movie Actress

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Emma Eames

Opera Singer

17th cousin 4 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Francis Lightfoot Lee

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

12th cousin 9 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Richard Henry Lee

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

12th cousin 9 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Wernher von Braun

Rocket Scientist

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Ichabod Goodwin

27th Governor of New Hampshire

12th cousin 6 times removed
via Sir Walter Hungerford

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John Adams Morgan

1952 Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Movie, Television and Stage Actor

17th cousin
via Sir Robert Hungerford

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James Russell Lowell

American “Fireside” Poet

13th cousin 5 times removed
via Sir Walter Hungerford

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James Russell Lowell

American “Fireside” Poet

15th cousin 6 times removed
via John de Vere

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James Russell Lowell

American “Fireside” Poet

16th cousin 5 times removed
via Eleanor Plantagenet

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Endicott Peabody

62nd Governor of Massachusetts

15th cousin
via Robert White

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Kelsey Grammer photo by U.S. Navy Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Valerie S. Guffey