| Debra Messing  AKA Debra Lynn Messing
Born: 15-Aug-1968
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Grace on Will & Grace Debra Messing was born in Brooklyn, but the family moved to Rhode Island when she was three. She earned degrees in Theater Arts from Brandeis and Drama from New York University, and also studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her first professional acting gig came in a Seattle stage production of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Her first two TV shows came and went largely unnoticed -- she played Stacey to Thomas Haden Church's Ned in Ned & Stacey, and an anthropologist in the odd sci-fi series Prey -- before success arrived in the form of Will & Grace. During that show's long run, Messing has made several movies, none of which have been particularly memorable or successful.
Father: Brian Messing (jewelry sales executive)
Mother: Sandra (real estate agent)
Brother: Brett Messing (stockbroker)
Husband: Daniel Zelman (screenwriter, b. 1967, dated 1992-2000, m. 3-Sep-2000, one son)
Son: Roman Walker Zelman (b. 7-Apr-2004)
University: BA Theater Arts, Brandeis University (1990, summa cum laude)
University: MA Drama, New York University (1993)
Hillary Clinton for President
Joe Lieberman for President
Beauty Contest Junior Miss Rhode Island 1986
Russian Ancestry
Risk Factors: Former Smoker
TELEVISION
Ned and Stacey Stacey Colbert (1995-97)
Will & Grace Grace Adler (1998-2006)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Nothing Like the Holidays (8-Nov-2008)
The Women (12-Sep-2008)
Lucky You (1-May-2007)
Open Season (29-Sep-2006) [VOICE]
The Wedding Date (4-Feb-2005)
Garfield (11-Jun-2004) [VOICE]
Along Came Polly (12-Jan-2004)
Hollywood Ending (3-May-2002)
The Mothman Prophecies (25-Jan-2002)
Jesus (25-Dec-1999)
Celebrity (7-Sep-1998)
McHale's Navy (18-Apr-1997)
A Walk in the Clouds (27-May-1995)
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