Debra Messing Bio | Wiki
Debra Messing is an American actress. After graduating from college, she received short-lived roles on television series such as Ned and Stacey on Fox from 1995 to 1997 and Prey on ABC in 1998.
Debra achieved her breakthrough role as Grace Adler, an interior designer, on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace. 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.
Debra Messing Age
Debra was born on August 15, 1968, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. She is 54 years old.
Debra Messing Height
She is a woman of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in (Approx. 1.73 m).
Debra Messing Family
She was born in Brooklyn, New York, to her parents Sandra and Brian Messing. Debra’s mother worked as a professional singer, banker, and travel and real estate agent, and her father was a sales executive for a costume jewelry packaging manufacturer.
She is Jewish and had a Bat Mitzvah ceremony. Debra’s Jewish ancestors emigrated from Poland and Russia. When she was three, she moved with her parents and her older brother, Brett, to East Greenwich, Rhode Island.
Debra Messing Husband
Debra met Daniel Zelman, an actor, and screenwriter, on their first day as graduate students at New York University in 1990. The couple was married on September 3, 2000, and lived in Manhattan.
On April 7, 2004, Debra gave birth to their son, Roman. In December 2011, she and her husband separated after 11 years of marriage. She filed for divorce on June 5, 2012, and the divorce became official on March 1, 2016. Debra dated her Smash co-star Will Chase from the end of 2011 to October 2014.
Debra Messing Education
During her high school years, she acted and sang in a number of high school productions at East Greenwich High School, including the starring roles in the musicals Annie and Grease. Debra took lessons in dance, singing, and acting. In 1986, she was Rhode Island’s Junior Miss and competed in Mobile, Alabama, in America’s Junior Miss scholarship program.
Later, she attended Brandeis University. During her junior year, Debra studied theater at the prestigious British European Studies Group of London (BESGL) program, an experience that solidified her desire to act.
In 1990, after graduating summa cum laude from Brandeis with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Arts, she gained admission to the elite Grad Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, which accepts 16 new students annually. She earned a Master of Fine Arts after three years.
Debra Messing Lucille Ball | Lucy
During the 2020 episode of the Will & Grace revival titled “We Love Lucy”, Messing’s character imagines herself as Lucille Ball which gave the actor a chance to bring her beloved character Lucy to life.
In 2005, along with Megan Mullally, Debra was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.
Debra Messing Movies And Tv Shows
2004 Garfield
2005 The Wedding Date
2006 Open Season
2007 Purple Violets
2007 Lucky You
2008 The Women
2008 Nothing like the Holidays
2014 Like Sunday, Like Rain
2016 Albion: The Enchanted Stallion
2018 Searching
2020 Irresistible
2020 The Dark Divide
2022 13
2022 Bros
Debra Messing Kim Kardashian
Debra wrote on Twitter in 2021 that she didn’t understand why Kardashian had been selected to host Saturday Night Live. On her new Hulu show, The Kardashians, which premiered on April 14, 2022, and is basically a continuation of the family’s previous reality show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kardashian gave viewers a look at how she really felt about Debra’s tweet.
She reacted, saying: “A girl from Will & Grace came out and said she has no idea why I would be chosen as a host, but it’s like, why do you care?”
Debra Messing Seinfeld
Debra appeared as Beth Lookner, Jerry Seinfeld’s romantic interest in two episodes of the series Seinfeld: “The Wait Out” in 1996 and “The Yada Yada” in 1997. Seinfeld is an American television sitcom created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, over nine seasons and 180 episodes. It stars Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself and focuses on his personal life with three of his friends.
Debra Messing Will And Grace
In 1998 her agent approached her with the pilot script for the television show Will & Grace. Debra was inclined to take some time off, but the script intrigued her, and she auditioned for the role of Grace Adler, beating Nicollette Sheridan, who later guest-starred on the show as Grace’s romantic rival. Will & Grace became a rating success, and Messing received critical acclaim for her performance.
In 2002, Debra was named one of the “50 Most Beautiful People in the World” by People. TV Guide picked her as its “Best Dressed Woman” in 2003. And her trademark curls on Will & Grace won her five Crown Awards from voters at the celebrity hair site Super-Hair.Net between 2000 and 2008.
Debra Messing Broadway
Debra made her Broadway debut in John Patrick Shanley’s play Outside Mullingar alongside Tony Award winner Brían F. O’Byrne. It began previews at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on January 3, 2014. Outside Mullingar was nominated for Best Play for the 2014 (68th Annual) Tony Awards. Debra appeared as Broadway playwright Julia Houston on the NBC musical drama Smash (2012–2013).
Debra Messing Net Worth
She earns her wealth from her career, therefore, she has amassed a fortune over the years. Debra’s estimated net worth is $25 million.
How Old Debra Messing
She is 54 years old. Debra was born on August 15, 1968, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.