David Hyde Pierce

Award-winning David Hyde Pierce portrays Dr. Niles Crane, Frasier's (Kelsey Grammer) younger, but equally neurotic, brother in the top-rated comedy series FRASIER, Grub Street Production in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC-TV. A haughty, uptight psychiatrist, Niles has a swooning crush on his father's warmhearted caregiver, Daphne (Jane Leeves). Pierce's brilliant comedic portrayal of Niles was celebrated during the 1997-1998 season as he earned his second Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Additionally, Pierce won the American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male Performer in a TV Series, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Viewers For Quality Television Award for his portrayal of the character. Pierce has emerged as one of the most impressive comedic actors and has helped create the most honored sibling relationship in television history. As Matt Roush of USA Today comments, "...They're the finest, funniest, fussiest odd  couple since Oscar Madison and Felix Unger..." 

Pierce was born on April 3 in Saratoga Springs, NY, and is graduate of Yale University where he received his bachelor's degree in English and theater arts. In 1981, with a degree in hand, he proceeded to New York City and promptly got a job selling ties at Bloomingdales while he studied acting. Pierce landed his first professional acting jog in "Beyond Therapy" on Broadway, followed by stints off-Broadway and regional theater. Between 1983 and 1985 he worked in various productions at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, MN, before returning to New York to appear in "Hamlet" with the New York Shakespeare Festival. He then traveled to the Soviet Union and Japan to perform in the stage production of "The Cherry Orchard," from 1988-1989. He also appeared on Broadway for six months in Wendy Wassertein's 'The Heidi Chronicles." 

Pierce's first feature film role was in "Bright Lights, Big City" and he has since appeared in such feature films as "Little Man Tate," "The Fisher King," "Crossing Delancy," "Sleepless In Seattle" and Mike Nichol's film "Wolf." Additionally, Pierce portrayed John Dean in Olver Stone's controversial yet critically-acclaimed feature film "Nixon." Most recently, Pierce completed a starring role in "Isn't She Great," starring Bette Midler. 

His television credits include starring in the NBC series "The Powers That Be," and guest starring roles in the series "Crime Story" and "Spenser: For Hire."  

Pierce resides in New York and Los Angeles