’90s Sitcom Star Set to Return to MCU in ‘Avengers’ Movie
March 28, 2025
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Kelsey Grammer has clawed his way back to the MCU.
On Wednesday, March 26, Marvel Entertainment posted a livestream, revealing the cast for the highly anticipated 2026 superhero flick Avengers: Doomsday. The livestream was over five hours long and showed each cast member’s name on a director’s chair, which included the 70-year-old Fraiser alum.
The sitcom actor first made his Marvel debut in the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand for 20th Century Fox. Grammar portrayed the blue mutant Beast (Dr. Henry Philip “Hank” McCoy).
Joe Russo, Anthony Russo and Kevin Feige, President, Marvel Studios speak onstage during the Marvel Studios Panel in Hall H at SDCC in San Diego, California on July 27, 2024. Joe Russo, Anthony Russo and Kevin Feige, President, Marvel Studios speak onstage during the Marvel Studios Panel in Hall H at SDCC in San Diego, California on July 27, 2024. Jesse Grant/Getty Images
The franchise opted to cast a younger version of Beast, played by Nicholas Hoult, for subsequent movies, X-Men: First Class, which came out in 2011, and X-Men: Days of Future Past, which premiered in 2014.
In December 2023, Grammer reflected on getting recast, telling Entertainment Tonight, “I thought, ‘This is it. I’ve made it. I’m finally in a franchise movie — and they said that they were gonna go back in time and Beast was gonna be younger. Then I slowly deduced that I was not included.”
However, the Cheers alum reprised his role as Beast in the 2023 film The Marvels, appearing in a post-credits scene.
The six-time Emmy Award winner told Entertainment Tonight he was happy to be back.
“It’s a great feather in my cap now that to have him come back and have people still be interested in seeing who was arguably the greatest Beast ever,” he joked.
Kelsey Grammer attends a special screening of Paramount+’s “Frasier” Season 2 at Bluma Appel Theatre on September 19, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. Kelsey Grammer attends a special screening of Paramount+’s “Frasier” Season 2 at Bluma Appel Theatre on September 19, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. Mathew Tsang/Getty Images
After the livestream reveal, fans took to X, formerly Twitter, to express their excitement about the comedian’s return.
“Rebecca Romijn coming back as Mystique ?! Patrick Stewart?! Ian McKellen?! Kelsey freaking Grammar [sic] as BEAST MARVEL YALL got it right,” someone commented.
Another person wrote, “we’re watching the marvel stream at work the way i jumped up and down at kelsey grammar [sic] I LOVE X-MEN.”
“KELSEY F***ING GRAMMAR [sic] IS BEAST?! OH MY GOD MARVEL IS SO BACK,” a third fan posted on the app.
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