Daphne Moon
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Daphne Moon is a character on the American television sitcom Frasier. She is played by Jane Leeves.
Daphne is a recent immigrant from England who is employed by Frasier Crane as a physical therapist for his father, Martin. Although she is hired as a physical therapist, she soon assumes many housekeeping and cooking duties in order to justify her continued stay (and higher pay).
Biography
Daphne was born in Manchester, England, the only daughter in a large, working-class family of nine children. She thus spent much of her childhood playing nurse and housemaid to her brothers. She has a complex love-hate relationship with her domineering and ever-complaining mother, Gertrude Moon (played by Millicent Martin); her relationship with her father, Harry (played by Brian Cox), is much warmer and closer.
As a young girl, Daphne was an actor in the hit British sitcom Mind your Knickers. Her career ended at age sixteen when she became too tall and busty to play her short, pre-teen character. Daphne then took up a career as a physical therapist, working one-on-one with various invalids and shut-ins until being hired by Frasier.
Personality
Like most characters on Frasier, Daphne has many eccentricities. She often tells rambling stories about her family, cheerfully remembering rather grim or traumatic events, to the considerable discomfort of the Crane family. She is also a firm believer in the supernatural, and believes herself to be a little bit psychic. Indeed, many of her predictions come true, though often in a somewhat muddled way.
Role on the series
Daphne's most significant developing relationship over the course of the series is with Frasier Crane's younger brother, Niles Crane. Unbeknownst to Daphne, Niles falls in love with her in the second episode, when they first meet; despite the increasing obviousness of Niles' infatuation, Daphne remains utterly oblivious to Niles' feelings towards her, though they become increasingly close friends. During this time, she embarks on numerous (frequently unsuccessful) relationships with other men, each one earning Niles' envy.
Niles' feelings are ultimately, and accidentally, revealed by Frasier in Season 7. Shocked to discover Niles' true feelings towards her, Daphne finds herself falling in love with Niles in return, placing her in the position Niles had been in for many years - in love with someone unaware of her true feelings.
Heartbroken to discover that he had, on impulse, married his girlfriend Mel, Daphne intends to go ahead with her own marriage to Niles' divorce lawyer Donny, until Frasier intervenes. In a two-part episode closing Season 7 and opening Season 8, Niles finally confesses his feelings to her, and although initially rejecting him, Daphne eventually changes her mind, abandoning Donny at the altar. The guilt she suffers as a result, and the difficulties in Daphne and Niles' new relationship, cause Daphne to gain sixty pounds.
In Season 8, Daphne and Niles marry in a small, private ceremony in Reno, Nevada. In Season 11, they have their first child, David, in the final episode of the series, "Goodnight, Seattle".
Quotes
- [Upon hearing a statement made by Frasier] "So, what happens when your nibs explode?"
- [Talking about her brother, Billy] One year, he grew little boobies.
- [Treating Roz's ingury]
Daphne: I'd need a raise to get me to not enough.
| Frasier characters |
| Main characters: Frasier Crane | Niles Crane | Martin Crane | Daphne Moon | Roz Doyle Eddie the dog Recurring characters: Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe | Gil Chesterton | Maris Crane | Lilith Sternin | Bebe Glazer | Gertrude Moon | Noel Shempsky | Kenny Daley Other characters Minor characters on Frasier |
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