Actor
Debra Messing
August 15, 1968 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Debra Lynn Messing (born August 15, 1968) is an American actress. After graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Messing starred in the shortlived television series, Ned and Stacey on Fox (1995–1997), and Prey on ABC (1998). She achieved her breakthrough role as Grace Adler, an interior designer, on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace (1998–2006, 2017–2020), for which she received seven Golden Globe Award nominations and five Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, winning once, in 2003. From 2007 to 2008, Messing starred as Molly Kagan, the ex-wife of a Hollywood film mogul, on the television miniseries The Starter Wife, for which she received two Golden Globe nominations, a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Notable work
8Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
as Alicia Harding
7.6Searching (2018)
as Detective Vick
5.7Garfield (2004)
as Arlene (voice)
6Along Came Polly (2004)
as Lisa Kramer
6.2Open Season (2006)
as Beth (voice)
8.3Seinfeld (1989)
as Beth Lukner
6.2The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
as Mary Klein
6.8The Wedding Date (2005)
as Kat Ellis
7.4A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
as Betty Sutton
7.4King of the Hill (1997)
as Mrs. Hilgren-Bronson (voice)
6.6Bros (2022)
as Debra Messing
6.9Will & Grace (1998)
as Grace Adler
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