Debra Lynn Messing is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Grace Adler on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. Her film work includes A Walk in the Clouds, Jesus and Hollywood Ending. Messing was named one of the Most Beautiful People in the World by TV Guide in 2002.
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Debra Lynn Messing is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Grace Adler on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. Her film work includes A Walk in the Clouds, Jesus and Hollywood Ending. Messing was named one of the Most Beautiful People in the World by TV Guide in 2002. She has also lent her voice to animated films such as Garfield and Open Season. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Bat Mitzvah ceremony. Her Jewish ancestors emigrated from Poland and Russia. She graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts in 1990. She received admission to the elite Grad Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, which accepts 16 new students annually. In 1993, Messing won acclaim for her performance as Harper in the pre-Broadway workshop production of Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America: Perestroika. She appeared in several episodes of the television series NYPD Blue during 1994 and 1995.
In 2002, she became a star of the TV show Ned and Stacey on Fox. She also co-starred in the dramatic vehicle McHale’s Navy’s Navy in 1997. In 2003, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for the role of Grace Adlers on Will and Grace. In 2007, she 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. In 2008, she appeared as Broadway playwright Julia Houston on theNBC musical drama Smash and as homicide detective Laura Diamond on the police-procedural comedy The Mysteries of Laura. From 2017 to 2020,Messing reprised her role on NBC’s three season revival of Will& Grace, garnering a ninth Golden Globe nomination for herperformance.
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