Daphne Crane (née Moon; born September 1964) is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Frasier, played by Jane Leeves.

[1] An English immigrant from Manchester, Daphne is employed by Frasier as a live-in housekeeper and physical therapist for his father, Martin.

At an undisclosed time, she migrates to America to live in Seattle, seeking a new life free of her domineering family.

In the third season finale, "You Can Go Home Again", it is revealed that before being interviewed and hired by the Cranes, she had a chance encounter with them at Cafe Nervosa.

Daphne's apparent psychic abilities are often treated with ambiguity on the show, and her various "visions" are sometimes shown to have come true, sometimes in a roundabout way and sometimes very accurately.

In the season 8 episode "The Wizard and Roz", Niles hires a paranormal expert to assess whether or not Daphne truly has any psychic abilities.

One of the running gags of the show is her terrible culinary skill as she is known to cook awful and outright strange dishes.

Heartbroken to discover that he had, on impulse, married his girlfriend Mel, Daphne intends to go ahead with her own marriage to Niles's divorce lawyer Donny Douglas (Saul Rubinek), until Frasier intervenes.

In a four-part episode closing Season 7 and opening Season 8, Niles finally confesses his feelings to her, and although she initially tells him both of them are better off staying with their current partners (each having made a serious commitment), Daphne changes her mind by the next morning, abandoning Donny at the altar, to Niles' delight.

During the episode "It Takes Two to Tangle" in which she did not appear while at the resort, Niles tells Roz that Daphne had lost 9 pounds, 12 ounces (the weight of Leeves's baby in real life).

Although they are frequently mentioned, the first time one of her family members appears on the show is in the season 7 episode "Dark Side of the Moon", in which Donny surprises Daphne with a visit from her brother, Simon (Anthony LaPaglia), not knowing that she dislikes him.

In the episode "An Affair to Forget", she mentions she had an ancestor who served on HMS Bounty who took Fletcher Christian's side in the mutiny.

LaPaglia, an Australian actor, adopted a Cockney accent playing Simon, while Robbie Coltrane, who is Scottish, played Daphne's brother Michael with a muddled Brummie (Birmingham) accent—which had a distinct Scottish lilt to it—explained away by Niles as being a result of his being dropped as a baby.

Writing for The Guardian, Lucy Mangan criticized Daphne's adopted Manchester accent as the show's only "weak link".