| Intro | American actress | ||||||
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| From | United States of America | ||||||
| Type | Film, TV, Stage & Radio | ||||||
| Gender | female | ||||||
| Birth | 9 October 1983, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA | ||||||
| Age: | 36 years | ||||||
| Star sign | Libra | ||||||
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Spencer Karen Grammer (born October 9, 1983) is an American actress best known for her roles as the voice of Summer Smith in the Adult Swim animated science fiction series Rick and Morty and as Casey Cartwright in the ABC Family college comedy-drama series Greek.
Early life
Grammer, born in Los Angeles, California, is the child of comedian and actor Kelsey Grammer and Doreen Alderman, and was named after her paternal aunt, who was murdered in 1975. She has six paternal half-siblings: three half-sisters (the actress Greer Grammer, Mason, and Faith) and three half-brothers (Jude, Gabriel, and James). She also has a maternal half-sister named Madison. She attended Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.
Career
Grammer’s first role was as a child, appearing uncredited on the show Cheers.
Grammer played the female lead, Casey Cartwright, in the ABC Family series Greek. The show followed the life of a sister (Grammer) and her geeky brother, Rusty Cartwright, played by Jacob Zachar, as they navigate college and life within the world of the Greek system sororities and fraternities in a midwestern Ohio college town.
In late 2012, she was cast in an independent thriller originally titled 2br/1ba. Directed by Rob Margolies, it was scheduled to be released in May 2015 as Roommate Wanted.
In 2013, Grammer starred opposite Blair Underwood in Ironside, the remake of the popular 1960s television series of the same name. On the show, she plays the female lead, Holly, part of detective Robert Ironside’s (Underwood) hand-picked team to solve the most difficult cases in the city after he is left paralyzed following a shooting. The show was canceled after three episodes aired. Since 2013 Spencer also lent her voice to the character of Summer Smith on the well-reviewed Adult Swim animated science fiction series Rick and Morty.
Personal life
Grammer married James Hesketh, a firefighter, on February 11, 2011. On October 10, 2011, she gave birth to their son, Emmett Emmanual Hesketh. In November 2017, Hesketh filed for divorce from Grammer.
In the fall of 2017, Grammer began her graduate studies at Columbia University, studying film screenwriting and directing.