Peri Gilpin
Peri Gilpin (born Peri Kay Oldham; May 27, 1961) is an American actress known for portraying Roz Doyle in the U.S. television series Frasier and Kim Keeler in the ABC Family television drama Make It or Break It.
Early life
Peri was born in Waco, Texas, as Peri Oldham, daughter of James Franklin Oldham and his wife Sandra Jo Hauck. Her parents divorced, and Sandra married secondly to Allen W Gilpin Jr in 1969. Peri then took her step-father's surname.
Peri Gilpin grew up in Dallas, where her family encouraged her acting abilities. After studying at the Dallas Theater Center, she pursued acting at the University of Texas at Austin and the British-American Academy in London. She began using the name "Peri Gilpin" (using her stepfather's surname) after becoming a professional actress.
Her father Jim became the Philadelphia weatherman and radio disc jockey under his stage name Jim O'Brien, who was a well known and respected radio and TV News weatherman/personality in Philadelphia in the '70s and early 80s. He died in a skydiving accident on September 25, 1983.