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Debra Messing (born on August 15, 1968), is an United States actor. She is married to screenwriter Daniel Zelman, and on April 7, 2004, gave birth to their son, Roman Walker Zelman. She became widely known as interior designer Grace Adler in the sitcom Will & Grace. In 2003 she won an Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for the role.
Early Life
Debra Messing was born into a Jewish family in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on August 15, 1968. When she was three she moved with her parents and her older brother, Brett, to a quiet town outside Providence, Rhode Island. Her father, Brian Messing, is a sales executive for a jewelry manufacturer; her mother, Sandy Messing, has worked as a professional singer, banker, travel agent, and real estate agent. As a youngster Messing took lessons in dance, singing, and acting. . While Messing¡¯s parents encouraged her dream of becoming an actress, they also urged her to get a liberal-arts education before deciding on acting as a career. Heeding their advice, she attended Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts. During her junior year she studied theater at the prestigious British European Studio Group of London program, in England, an experience that fueled her desire to act. After graduating summa cum laude from Brandeis, in 1990, with a bachelor¡¯s degree in theater arts, Messing gained admission to the elite Graduate Acting Program at New York University (NYU), which accepts only about 15 new students annually. Three years later she earned a master¡¯s degree in fine arts from NYU.
Career
Later in 1993 Messing won praise for her acting in the pre-Broadway workshop production of Tony Kushner's much-lauded play Angels in America: Perestroika. Before long she broke into television, playing the part of Dana Abandando - the conniving sister of one of the main characters - in three episodes of the award-winning television series NYPD Blue; those installments aired in late 1994 and early 1995...
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