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Debra Lynn Messing is an American actress best known for her role as Grace Adler in the sitcom Will & Grace. She was born in Brooklyn, New York City on August 15, 1968, to Sandra Simons, a professional singer, banker, travel and real estate agent, and Brian Messing, a sales executive for a costume jewelry packaging manufacturer. Messing is Jewish, a descendant of immigrants from Russia and Poland. When she was three, her family moved to East Greenwich, Rhode Island, where she attended East Greenwich High School and acted and sang in a number of school productions, including the musicals Annie and Grease. She also took lessons in dance, singing, and acting. In 1986, she was Rhode Island's Junior Miss and competed in Mobile, Alabama in the America's Junior Miss scholarship program. Messing then attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and during her junior year, she studied theater at the prestigious London-based British European Studio Group program. After graduating summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a bachelor's degree in theater arts, Messing gained admission to the elite Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She earned a Master's Degree in Fine Arts after three years. <br/><br/> Messing won praise for her acting in the pre-Broadway workshop production of Tony Kushner's play Angels in America: Perestroika and subsequently appeared in several episodes of the television series NYPD Blue during 1994 and 1995. She made her film debut in Alfonso Arau's A Walk in the Clouds in 1995 and was then cast as the co-star of the television sitcom, Ned & Stacey. Messing turned down a starring role in another television sitcom to appear in Donald Margulies's two-character play Collected Stories, which opened at the Off-Broadway Manhattan Theater Club. She also co-starred in the Tom Arnold vehicle McHale's Navy in 1997 and played a lead role as the bio-anthropologist Sloan Parker on ABC's dramatic science fiction television series Prey. <br/><br/> Messing was then cast as Grace Adler in the television show Will & Grace, which became a ratings success and made her a star. In 2002, she was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" by People Magazine and was picked by TV Guide as its "Best Dressed Woman" in 2003. She has since appeared in a number of films, including The Mothman Prophecies (2002), Along Came Polly (2004), The Wedding Date (2005), and Hollywood Ending (2002). Messing was also featured as a judge on the season finale of the second season of Bravo's reality show, Project Runway. She starred in the television mini-series The Starter Wife, which was nominated for ten Emmy awards including one for Messing for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. In 2008, Messing reprised her role as Molly Kagan in the television series The Starter Wife, which included 10 episodes. In early 2010, Messing will star in the new ABC comedy series Wright vs. Wrong for the 2010-2011 primetime season.