Biography

Daughter of Kelsey Grammer and Doreen Alderman.

Named after her ill-fated aunt who was raped and murdered eight years before she was born. Her middle name, Karen, is the same as her late aunt's first name.

Mother, Doreen Alderman, was a back-up dancer (dressed in green) in Steve Martin's Saturday Night Live (1975) King Tut skit.

Once had an alpaca named Frasier; now has a cat named Cookie.

She has one son name Emmett Emmanuel Hesketh (b. October 10, 2011) with her ex-husband James Hesketh.

I want to pay my mortgage and go on vacation, so I love working. I want to be able to do independent projects as well, and being on a successful TV show allows you to do some other things.

I've been learning how to shoot a gun and properly handcuff people so that on the day I need to pull someone down to the ground, it looks and feels natural for me.

I love pushing my boundaries and seeing how far I can go without, you know, dying or injuring myself too badly. On set I was like, 'Give me some stunts! Give me whatever you want. Throw it at me. I want to do it all.'

I think Mariska Hargitay on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate.

People are always going to assume I got my roles because of my father. There's not much I can do about that. He and I talk about the business sometimes, but he's my dad.