Debra Messing BIO
Debra Messing is best known for her role on NBC's Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated comedy series "Will & Grace." This January, NBC ordered ten episodes of a "Will & Grace" revival with the entire original creative team, which is scheduled to air during the 2017-18 television season.
Messing starred in the NBC series "The Mysteries of Laura," which premiered in 2014. In 2012 and 2013, Messing starred as Julia Houston in NBC's "Smash," a musical drama about the creation of a new Broadway show.
In 2014, Messing made her own Broadway debut in the Tony Award-nominated production of John Patrick Shanley's Outside Mullingar.
Other theater credits include Donald Marguiles' Pulitzer Prize finalist Collected Stories, and Paul Rudnick's Off-Broadway play The Naked Truth.
Messing's film work includes the box office hit Along Came Polly and The Wedding Date. Messing starred in The Women and the family comedy, Nothing Like The Holidays. She also co-starred in Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending, and The Mothman Prophecies. Messing won a Best Featured Actress Award for her work in the 2015 Indie drama Like Sunday Like Rain. In 2017, Messing will star as Marjorie Houseman in ABC's three-hour remake of Dirty Dancing, premiering May 24th. Messing is the Global Health Ambassador for Population Services International (PSI) focusing on HIV/AIDS. She has traveled extensively in Africa in this role and in 2010 testified before the House Foreign Affairs sub-committee on Africa and Global Health. She was also a key speaker at the 2012 AIDS conference in DC. Other charities Messing supports include HRC (Human Rights Campaign), Everytown for Gun Safety, and Joyful Heart Foundation. She was honored with The Trevor Life Award for her contributions to the LGBT community.
Messing attended Brandeis University and received her MFA from NYU. She resides in New York.
Debra Messing Movies
A Walk in the Clouds
[ 1995 ] Betty Sutton
McHale's Navy
[ 1997 ] Lt. Penelope Carpenter
Celebrity
[ 1998 ] TV Reporter at Lupus Office
The Mothman Prophecies
[ 2002 ] Mary Klein
Hollywood Ending
[ 2002 ] Lori
Garfield
[ 2004 ] Arlene
Along Came Polly
[ 2004 ] Lisa Kramer
The Wedding Date
[ 2005 ] Kat Ellis
Open Season
[ 2006 ] Beth
Purple Violets
[ 2007 ] Kate Scott
Lucky You
[ 2007 ] Suzanne Offer
The Women
[ 2008 ] Edie Cohen
Nothing Like the Holidays
[ 2008 ] Sarah Rodriguez
Like Sunday, Like Rain
[ 2014 ] Barbara
Albion: The Enchanted Stallion
[ 2016 ] The Queen
Searching
[ 2018 ] Detective Vick
The Dark Divide
[ 2020 ] Thea Pyle
13: The Musical
[ 2022 ] Jessica
Bros
[ 2022 ] Debra Messing