Debra Messing
Born: Aug. 15, 1968
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Debra Messing was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 15, 1968. She graduated from Brandeis University and went on to earn her Master’s degree in drama from New York University.
Debra was first seen on the small screen in guest starring roles on Partners and NYPD Blue. Her first film role was in A Walk in the Clouds (1995) starring Keanu Reeves. That same year she won the female lead in the short-lived sitcom Ned and Stacey opposite Thomas Haden Church. Debra landed a role in the disastrous 1997 remake of McHale’s Navy (starring Tom Arnold) and the next year she played an anthropologist in Prey.
Debra made her first appearance in a Woody Allen movie when she landed a role in Celebrity in 1998. That same year, she won the role of Grace Adler in the NBC series Will & Grace, which co-starred Eric McCormack, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally.
In 1999, she played Mary Magdalene in the miniseries Jesus. She earned her first Emmy nomination for Will & Grace in 2000. In 2000, she had supporting roles in The Mothman Prophecies (with Richard Gere and Laura Linney) and Hollywood Ending opposite Woody Allen. In 2003, after four nominations, Debra won the Emmy for her performance in Will & Grace. She was the last of her co-stars to win.
She was seen in 2004’s Along Came Polly with Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston and Philip Seymour Hoffman and was unseen voicing Arlene in the movie Garfield.
Debra married Daniel Zelman in 2000. The couple had a son in 2004.
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