Debra Messing

Acting

Born 1968-08-15 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 71 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Screen Actors Guild Awards 5 TV Guide Award 2 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Lucy Award 1 Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy 1

Awards

Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

2003 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Won Will & Grace

Screen Actors Guild Awards 5 won

2004 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Won Will & Grace
2003 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Won Will & Grace
2002 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Won Will & Grace
2001 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Won Will & Grace
2000 Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Won Will & Grace

TV Guide Award 2 won

2016 TV Guide Award Won
2012 TV Guide Award Won Smash

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Lucy Award 1 won

2005 Lucy Award Won

Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy 1 won

2003 Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy Won Will & Grace

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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. Thereafter, she appeared as Broadway playwright Julia Houston on the NBC musical drama Smash (2012–2013) and as homicide detective Laura Diamond on the NBC police-procedural comedy The Mysteries of Laura (2014–2016). From 2017 to 2020, Messing reprised her role as Grace Adler on NBC's three season revival of Will & Grace, garnering a ninth Golden Globe nomination for her performance. Messing's film work includes A Walk in the Clouds (1995), Jesus (1999), The Mothman Prophecies (2002), Hollywood Ending (2002), Along Came Polly (2004), The Wedding Date (2005), Lucky You (2007), The Women (2008), Nothing Like the Holidays (2008), Searching (2018), and 13: The Musical (2022). She has also lent her voice to animated films such as Garfield (2004) and Open Season (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Debra Messing, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.