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Where You Know The Rick & Morty Star

Spencer Grammer is best known for playing Summer on Adult Swim’s Rick And Morty, but here’s a guide to her other movie and television credits.


She’s probably best known for voicing Summer on rick and morty, but here’s a guide to Spencer Grammer’s other movie and TV roles. Grammer made her acting debut on a season 10 episode of sitcom Cheers, which starred her father Kelsey Grammer. Following this brief appearance, she didn’t start pursuing acting as a career until the early 2000s. She made guest appearances on shows like Third Watch and – in keeping with just about every up-and-coming actor – an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Grammer also made her film debut in the 2006 drama Beautiful Ohio starring William Hurt and Rita Wilson.

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One of her first big TV roles came in 2006 when she played Lucy Montgomery on soap opera As The World Turns. She inherited this role from Amanda Seyfried and Gotham actor Peyton List. After exiting the soap, Grammer landed her next major series with ABC comedy-drama Greek. The actor was cast in the lead role as Casey, who alongside her younger brother Rusty (Jacob Zachar) has to navigate college life and all the peer pressure and growing up that comes with it. The show received great reviews and ran for four seasons, coming to an end in 2011.

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During and after her time on GreekSpencer Grammer kept busy with other projects, including a voice acting role on Robot Chickenepisodes of ITUC – both the original series and its NY spinoff – and a lead role in the comedy-drama movie In Lieu of Flowers. Grammer’s next TV series was the 2013 reboot of Ironsidestarring Blair Underwood (L.A. Law) as the titular detective. The show faced controversy for casting Underwood as a paraplegic character, and Ironside was swiftly canceled after a few episodes. Grammer had better luck with her next series rick and mortywhich cast her as teenager Summer Smith.


Spencer Grammer’s Other Movie & TV Roles

rick and morty is Adult Swim’s anarchic animated adventure centering around the title scientist and his grandson. Spencer Grammer brought biting wit and emotional depth to Summer, who has played a major role in many episodes. The show itself is still running strong, and Grammer has kept busy outside of her commitments to it. In 2014 she made appearances on Chicago P.D. and Royal Pains and played a lead in the badly received thriller Roommate Wanted.

In 2015 Spencer Grammer joined the cast of sitcom Mr Robinsonstarring Craig Robinson (Killing It); the show lasted only a season. In recent years, the actor has jumped between appearances on shows like Grey’s Anatomy and Scorpio with films like 2017’s Boone: The Bounty Hunter and Brampton’s Own. She also joined the cast of the Nick Nolte fronted political comedy Graves during the second season. She voiced Brendar on Nickelodeon’s The Barbarian and the Troll and appeared in multiple episodes of the Kevin Williamson-created anthology Tell Me A Story.

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