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Most Recent Role: Himself on This Week
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Saratoga Springs, New York
Birthday: 4-3-1959
Birth Name: David Hyde Pierce

Videos

This Week
June 24, 2007
Sunday 24 June 2007 on ABC

This Week speaks with Senator Jeff Sessions about immigration and the war in Iraq. Furthermore Senator Edward Kennedy defends the controversial immigration bill.

Pictures

• Simpsons rolls out guest list 2007-07-25 09:04:00
• Former Frasier TV star climbs Broadway heights 2007-04-17 15:39:00
• external: 'The Amazing Screw-On Head's' Jason Netter 2006-07-14
• external: The Tony Danza Show 2005-11-28
• external: The Jane Pauley Show 2005-07-19

While on Frasier, David appeared in 4 public service announcements for NBC's The More You Know campaign. His topics were 'stay in school', 'school support', 'designated drivers', and 'parental involvment'. (edit)

David's fear that he wasn't competitive enough also contributed to his decision to quit playing the piano as a profession. (edit)

David is no stranger to music. He's been playing the piano since childhood and used to be a church organist. (edit)

In 2005 David began to play �brave Sir Robin� in the Broadway production of Spamalot, the musical version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (edit)

One year when David was performing at the international comedy festival "Just for Laughs", he arrived in Montreal for check-in with the festival exhausted and dishevelled. He remarked to one of the festival workers how he was looking forward to resting in his hotel room. The worker replied with empathy, saying how tired they were working overtime with few breaks trying to tie up the lose ends and help the performers before the comedy routines. Moments later, Pierce returned with fresh coffee and pastries for all those working at the Festival's check-in. (edit)

David: I realised that I wasn't driven to practice [piano] eight hours a day. (edit)

David: Both my parents had a strong influence on my sense of humour and my ending up in this profession. They both had terrific and very different senses of humour. Mom had a very dry, deadpan sense of humour. My Dad has a very wet, anything-goes kind of humour. He tends toward the wild and crazy. (edit)

David: Especially in the early Frasier episodes, a lot of Niles' characteristics are pretty off-putting. He's uptight, he's snobbish, he's condescending, and he's obsessed with what most people would find pretty superficial - the best wines, the best operas. (edit)

David: I was as happy doing theatre in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue. (edit)

David: (on his never seen wife on Frasier) There will always be a Maris, because she is such a great character. In fact, I think NBC should give her a spin-off show in which she never appears. (edit)

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