Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

Niles Crane on the hit NBC sitcom Frasier for which he won four Emmy Awards during the series' run. In a deliberate in-joke he voiced Cecil the brother of Kelsey Grammer-voiced Sideshow Bob in The Simpsons episode "Brother from Another Series" in which the two characters parallel the Frasier-Niles relationship. On May 28 2009 while a guest on The View he publicly announced his marriage to Hargrove and expressed his anger over the approval of Proposition 8.

Niles Crane on the hit NBC sitcom Frasier for which he won four Emmy Awards during the series' run. David Hyde Pierce (born April 3 1959) is an American actor and comedian.