David Hyde Pierce Biography

David Hyde Pierce has received three Emmy Awards a Golden Globe Award two Screen Actors Guild Awards seven American Comedy Awards and five Viewers for Quality Television Awards for his portrayal of the snobbish psychiatrist Niles Crane brother to the title character on “Frasier.” “His relationship with Frasier is a mix of sibling rivalry condescension passive aggression and brotherly love” says Pierce.
Pierce was born in Saratoga Springs New York. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Yale with a double major in English and theater arts.
In 1981 Pierce went to New York City and quickly got a job selling ties in Bloomingdale’s while he studied acting. He landed his first professional acting job in “Beyond Therapy” on Broadway followed by stints off-Broadway and in regional theater. Between 1983-85 he worked in various productions at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis before returning to appear in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of “Hamlet.” He interrupted his stage work for a role in his first feature film “Bright Lights Big City” before departing on a tour of the Soviet Union and Japan in “The Cherry Orchard” from 1988-89.

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