Spencer Grammer

Spencer Grammer was born in Los Angeles, California.^[4] She is the daughter of actor Kelsey Grammer and Doreen Alderman, and was named after her paternal aunt, Karen, who was murdered in 1975.^[3] She has six paternal half-siblings: three half-sisters (the actress Greer Grammer, Mason, and Faith) and three half-brothers (Jude, Gabriel, and James).^[3] She also has a maternal half-sister named Madison.^[5] She attended Marymount Manhattan College in New York City.^[3] Grammer graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts in 2023 with an MFA in directing.

Grammer's first role was as a child, appearing uncredited on the show Cheers, in which her father Kelsey Grammer starred.^[3]

Grammer played the female lead, Casey Cartwright, in the ABC Family series Greek.^[6] The show followed the life of a sister (Grammer) and her brother, Rusty Cartwright, played by Jacob Zachar, as they navigate college and life within the world of the Greek system fraternities and sororities in a midwestern Ohio college town.^[7][8]

In 2013, Grammer starred opposite Blair Underwood in Ironside, the remake of the popular 1960s television series of the same name.^[9] The show was canceled after three episodes aired.^[10] Since 2013, Spencer has lent her voice to the character of Summer Smith on the Adult Swim animated science fiction series Rick and Morty.

Grammer is the lead vocalist for the band Belle and Chain.^[11]

Grammer married James Hesketh, a firefighter, on February 11, 2011.^[12] In October 2011, she gave birth to their son, Emmett.^[13][14] In November 2017, James Hesketh filed for divorce from Grammer.^[15]