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AKA: Debra Lynn Messing
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 08/15/1968
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

biography

A vivacious redhead with a knack for verbal and physical comedy, Debra Messing was a Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actress who dominated the sitcom scene for eight years as lovelorn interior designer Grace Adler on “Will and Grace” (ABC). It was during this masterful run as the ditzy Adler that Messing received the ultimate compliment for any comedienne – an oft-cited comparison to Lucille Ball. During and after the show’s run, Messing also found time to appear in the feature films “Hollywood Ending” (2002) and “The Wedding Date,” as well as the popular USA summer miniseries, “The Continued

Credits

Nothing Like the Holidays
Sarah Rodriguez
2008
The Starter Wife
(TV Show)
2008-2008
Woman Over The Influence
Executive Producer
2008
Woman Over The Influence
Molly Kagan
2008
Her Old Man And The Sea
Executive Producer
2008
Her Old Man And The Sea
Molly Kagan
2008
Look Who's Stalking
Executive Producer
2008
Look Who's Stalking
Molly Kagan
2008
The French Disconnection
Executive Producer
2008
The French Disconnection
Molly Kagan
2008
The Ex-Files
Executive Producer
2008
The Ex-Files
Molly Kagan
2008
Das Booty Call
Executive Producer
2008
Das Booty Call
Molly Kagan
2008
Mollywood
Executive Producer
2008
Mollywood
Molly Kagan
2008
The Remains Of The Snow Day
Executive Producer
2008
The Remains Of The Snow Day
Molly Kagan
2008
The Diary of a Mad Ex-Housewife
Executive Producer
2008
The Forty-Year-Old Virgin Queen
Executive Producer
2008
The Forty-Year-Old Virgin Queen
Molly Kagan
2008
The Diary of a Mad Ex-Housewife
Molly Kagan
2008
+(15 More)
The Rachel Zoe Project
(TV Show)
2008-2008
Award Season, That's Bananas!
Herself
2008
The Women
Edie Cohen
2008
The Starter Wife
(TV Show)
2007-2007
Finale (Hour 6)
Molly Kagan
2007
Hour Five
Molly Kagan
2007
Hour 4
Molly Kagan
2007
Hour 3
Molly Kagan
2007
Premiere (Hour 1 and Hour 2)
Molly Kagan
2007
Lucky You
Suzanne Offer
2007
Open Season
Voice of Beth
2006
Will & Grace
(TV Show)
1998-2006
The Finale
Grace Adler
2006
Whatever Happened to Baby Gin?
Grace Adler
2006
Partners in Crime
Grace Adler
2006
The Mourning Son
Grace Adler
2006
Blanket Apology
Grace Adler
2006
Buy Buy Baby
Grace Adler
2006
Cowboys and Iranians
Grace Adler
2006
Grace Expectations
Grace Adler
2006
The Definition of Marriage
Grace Adler
2006
I Love L Gay
Grace Adler
2006
Cop to It
Grace Adler
2006
Forbidden Fruit
Grace Adler
2006
Bathroom Humor
Grace Adler
2006
Von Trapped
Grace Adler
2006
A Little Christmas Queer
Grace Adler
2005
Swish Out of Water
Grace Adler
2005
Birds of a Feather Boa
Grace Adler
2005
Love is in the Airplane
Grace Adler
2005
The Hole Truth
Grace Adler
2005
Steams Like Old Times
Grace Adler
2005
The Old Man and the Sea
Grace Adler
2005
I Second That Emotion
Grace Adler
2005
Live Season Premiere
Grace Adler
2005
Friends With Benefits
Grace Adler
2005
Kiss and Tell
Grace Adler
2005
From Queer to Eternity
Grace Adler
2005
It's a Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad World
Grace Adler
2005
The Blonde Leading the Blind
Grace Adler
2005
Sour Balls
Grace Adler
2005
The Fabulous Baker Boy
Grace Adler
2005
The Birds and the Bees
Grace Adler
2005
Dance Cards and Greeting Cards
Grace Adler
2005
Bully Woolley
Grace Adler
2005
Partners
Grace Adler
2005
Board Games
Grace Adler
2005
Christmas Break
Grace Adler
2004
Queens for a Day
Grace Adler
2004
Saving Grace Again (Part 2)
Grace Adler
2004
Saving Grace Again (Part 1)
Grace Adler
2004
Will & Grace & Vince & Nadine
Grace Adler
2004
The Newlydreads
Grace Adler
2004
Key Party
Grace Adler
2004
Company
Grace Adler
2004
One Gay at a Time
Grace Adler
2004
Back Up Dancer
Grace Adler
2004
FYI: I Hurt, Too
Grace Adler
2004
I Do. Oh, No, You Di-In't (Part 1 and 2)
Grace Adler
2004
Speechless
Grace Adler
2004
I Never Cheered for My Father
Grace Adler
2004
Fred Astaire and Ginger Chicken
Grace Adler
2004
No Sex 'N' The City
Grace Adler
2004
Courting Disaster
Grace Adler
2004
East Side Story
Grace Adler
2004
Flip-Flop (Part 2)
Grace Adler
2004
Flip-Flop (Part 1)
Grace Adler
2004
Looking For Mr. Good Enough
Grace Adler
2004
Ice Cream Balls
Grace Adler
2004
A Gay/December Romance
Grace Adler
2004
The Accidental Tsuris
Grace Adler
2004
Fanilow
Grace Adler
2003
Strangers With Candice
Grace Adler
2003
Swimming From Cambodia
Grace Adler
2003
Nice in White Satin
Grace Adler
2003
Heart Like a Wheelchair
Grace Adler
2003
A-Story, Bee-Story
Grace Adler
2003
Me and Mr. Jones
Grace Adler
2003
Home Court Disadvantage
Grace Adler
2003
Last Ex to Brooklyn
Grace Adler
2003
Dames at Sea
Grace Adler
2003
24
Grace Adler
2003
23
Grace Adler
2003
May Divorce Be With You
Grace Adler
2003
Dolls and Dolls
Grace Adler
2003
Guest Star Clip Show
Grace Adler
2003
Leo Unwrapped
Grace Adler
2003
Sex, Losers and Videotape
Grace Adler
2003
Fagmalion Part Four: The Guy Who Loved Me
Grace Adler
2003
Fagmalion Part Three: Bye Bye Beardy
Grace Adler
2003
Women and Children First
Grace Adler
2003
Homojo
Grace Adler
2003
Fagmalion Part Two: Attack of the Clones
Grace Adler
2003
Fagmalion Part One: Gay It Forward
Grace Adler
2003
Field of Queens
Grace Adler
2003
All About Christmas Eve
Grace Adler
2002
The Honeymoon's Over
Grace Adler
2002
Marry Me a Little, Marry Me a Little More
Grace Adler
2002
The Needle and the Omelet's Done
Grace Adler
2002
Boardroom and a Parked Place
Grace Adler
2002
It's the Gay Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Grace Adler
2002
Humongous Growth
Grace Adler
2002
The Kid Stays Out Of The Picture
Grace Adler
2002
Bacon & Eggs
Grace Adler
2002
...And The Horse He Rode In On
Grace Adler
2002
Artificial Insemination (Part 1)
Grace Adler
2002
Artificial Insemination (Part 2)
Grace Adler
2002
A Bunch of White Chicks Sittin' Around Talkin'
Grace Adler
2002
Hocus Focus
Grace Adler
2002
Fagel Attraction
Grace Adler
2002
Wedding Balls
Grace Adler
2002
He Shoots, They Snore
Grace Adler
2002
Went To A Garden Potty
Grace Adler
2002
Cheatin' Trouble Blues
Grace Adler
2002
Something Borrowed, Someone's Due (Part 2)
Grace Adler
2002
Someone Old, Someplace New (Part 1)
Grace Adler
2002
A Chorus Lie
Grace Adler
2002
Dyeing Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard
Grace Adler
2002
Grace In The Hole
Grace Adler
2002
Whoa, Nelly
Grace Adler
2002
Jingle Balls
Grace Adler
2001
Stakin' Care of Business
Grace Adler
2001
Moveable Feast (Part 1)
Grace Adler
2001
Moveable Feast (Part 2)
Grace Adler
2001
Star-Spangled Banter
Grace Adler
2001
Bed, Bath, and Beyond
Grace Adler
2001
Rules Of Engagement
Grace Adler
2001
Loose Lips Sink Relationships
Grace Adler
2001
Prison Blues
Grace Adler
2001
Crouching Father, Hidden Husband
Grace Adler
2001
Past And Presents
Grace Adler
2001
The Third Wheel Gets The Grace
Grace Adler
2001
Sons & Lovers
Grace Adler
2001
Last Of The Really Odd Lovers
Grace Adler
2001
Alice Doesn't Lisp Here Anymore
Grace Adler
2001
The Young And The Tactless
Grace Adler
2001
An Old-Fashioned Piano Party
Grace Adler
2001
Poker? I Don't Even Like Her
Grace Adler
2001
Mad Dogs and Average Men
Grace Adler
2001
Cheaters
Grace Adler
2001
My Uncle The Car
Grace Adler
2001
Brothers, A Love Story
Grace Adler
2001
Crazy In Love
Grace Adler
2001
Swimming Pools...Movie Stars
Grace Adler
2001
Coffee & Commitment
Grace Adler
2001
Three's A Crowd, Six Is A Freak Show
Grace Adler
2000
Lows In The Mid-Eighties
Grace Adler
2000
Gypsies, Tramps and Weed
Grace Adler
2000
Love Plus One
Grace Adler
2000
Grace 0, Jack 2000
Grace Adler
2000
Girl Trouble
Grace Adler
2000
Fear And Clothing
Grace Adler
2000
Husbands and Trophy Wives
Grace Adler
2000
New Will City
Grace Adler
2000
Ben? Her?
Grace Adler
2000
My Best Friend's Tush
Grace Adler
2000
There But For The Grace Of Grace
Grace Adler
2000
Girls, Interrupted
Grace Adler
2000
An Affair To Forget
Grace Adler
2000
Sweet & Sour Charity
Grace Adler
2000
The Hospital Show
Grace Adler
2000
Hey La, Hey La, My Ex-Boyfriend's Back
Grace Adler
2000
Advise And Resent
Grace Adler
2000
Acting Out
Grace Adler
2000
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, He's Kept Me In The Closet And I'm So Sad
Grace Adler
2000
He's Come Undone
Grace Adler
2000
Seeds Of Discontent
Grace Adler
2000
Tea And A Total Lack Of Sympathy
Grace Adler
2000
I Never Promised You An Olive Garden
Grace Adler
1999
Terms Of Employment
Grace Adler
1999
Homo For The Holidays
Grace Adler
1999
To Serve And Disinfect
Grace Adler
1999
Polk Defeats Truman
Grace Adler
1999
Whose Mom Is It Anyway?
Grace Adler
1999
Das Boob
Grace Adler
1999
Election
Grace Adler
1999
Guess Who's Not Coming To Dinner
Grace Adler
1999
Object of My Rejection
Grace Adler
1999
Alley Cats
Grace Adler
1999
Saving Grace
Grace Adler
1999
Will Works Out
Grace Adler
1999
Grace, Replaced
Grace Adler
1999
Secrets & Lays
Grace Adler
1999
Yours, Mine or Ours
Grace Adler
1999
Big Brother is Coming (Part 2)
Grace Adler
1999
Big Brother is Coming (Part 1)
Grace Adler
1999
The Unsinkable Mommy Adler
Grace Adler
1999
My Fair Maidy
Grace Adler
1999
Will on Ice
Grace Adler
1999
The Big Vent
Grace Adler
1999
The Truth About Will & Dogs
Grace Adler
1998
The Buying Game
Grace Adler
1998
Where There's a Will There's No Way
Grace Adler
1998
William, Tell
Grace Adler
1998
Boo! Humbug
Grace Adler
1998
Between a Rock and Harlan's Place
Grace Adler
1998
Head Case
Grace Adler
1998
A New Lease on Life
Grace Adler
1998
Pilot
Grace Adler
1998
+(182 More)
The Wedding Date
Kat Ellis
2005
Garfield
Arlene
2004
Along Came Polly
Lisa Kramer
2004
Hollywood Ending
Lori
2002
The Mothman Prophecies
Mary Klein
2002
Mchale's Navy
Lt Penelope Carpenter
1997
Seinfeld
(TV Show)
1996-1996
The Wait Out
Beth
1996
A Walk in the Clouds
Betty Sutton
1995
Purple Violets
Kate Scott

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Raised in East Greenwich, RI
 
Gained attention of entertainment industry as Harper Pitt in student workshop production of "Angels in America: Perestroika"
 
Made professional stage debut in production of "The Importance of Being Earnest" at Seattle's Intiman Theatre
1994 
Appeared Off-Broadway in "Four Dogs and a Bone" and "The Naked Truth"
1994 
Had recurring role of scheming Dana Abandando on "NYPD Blue" (ABC)
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