Debra Messing Filmography

The Women

Actors: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Veteran producer/director Diane English (The Lathe of Heaven, Murphy Brown) helms this contemporized remake of George Cukor's beloved proto-feminist comedy drama The Women (1939), an adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's play. The English version follows the gossip, bitchy wisecracking, and overall Read More

The Starter Wife [TV Series]

Actors: Debra Messing, Joan Allen, Chris Diamantopoulos, Danielle Nicolet

Lucky You

Actors: Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Debra Messing, Horatio Sanz

Synopsis: A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer in a high-stakes emotional drama from L.A. Confidential director Curtis Hanson Read More

The Starter Wife

Actors: Debra Messing, Joe Mantegna, Judy Davis, Miranda Otto, Anika Noni Rose, Peter Jacobson

Synopsis: Based on the 2005 bestselling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, the six-part miniseries The Starter Wife starred former Will & Grace leading lady Debra Messing as Molly Kagan, an archetypal "Hollywood wife" who for ten years had enjoyed the perks and privileges of being married to powerful studio Read More

Purple Violets

Actors: Selma Blair, Patrick Wilson, Debra Messing, Edward Burns, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: An unhappy woman finds new love with her old boyfriend in this romantic comedy-drama from writer and director Edward Burns. Patti Selma Blair) is a woman in her early thirties living in New York City. For years, Patti chased after her dream of becoming a successful novelist, but recently she's had Read More

Open Season

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Gary Sinise, Debra Messing, Billy Connolly

Synopsis: A domesticated grizzly bear finds that there's more to life than being the star attraction of a mountain town nature show when a fast-talking mule deer offers him a crash course in woodland living in Sony Pictures Animation's first full-length animated feature. Raised by kindly park ranger Beth Read More

Will & Grace: Series Finale

Synopsis: See how television's most popular roommates finally part ways as the Emmy-winning sitcom Will and Grace ends a successful eight-season run with an unforgettable series finale that's sure to leave longtime fans misty-eyed. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wedding Date

Actors: Debra Messing, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: A gal who needs a date for a family function gets the best man money can buy in this romantic comedy. Kat Ellis (Debra Messing) is a woman in her mid-thirties living in New York City and has had more than her share of romantic problems -- enough so that she's gotten word that her younger Read More

Will & Grace: Season 08

Actors: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Sean Hayes

Synopsis: Will and Grace was supposed to have been cancelled at the end of its seventh season, but somehow managed to hang on for an eighth and final year. To improve its flagging ratings (the series had dropped from ninth place in 2001 to a miserable 61 five years later), NBC moved the show to a new Read More

Garfield: The Movie

Actors: Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Debra Messing, Stephen Tobolowsky, Evan Arnold

Synopsis: Jim Davis' famous cartoon cat finally makes his way to the big screen in this adaptation of the popular comic strip Garfield, which combines live action with CGI animation. Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer) is a sweet, if somewhat clueless, man who shares his home with his pet cat, Garfield (voice of Bill Murray Read More

Along Came Polly

Actors: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin, Hank Azaria, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Screenwriter John Hamburg directs his second film (since his 1998 debut Safe Men) with the romantic comedy Along Came Polly. Ben Stiller plays Reuben Feffer, a professional risk assessor who never takes chances in any aspect of his life. When his new bride Lisa (Debra Messing) leaves him for a Read More

Will & Grace: Season 07

Actors: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Sean Hayes

Synopsis: Season Seven of Will & Grace begins by tying up several loose ends from Season Six, notably the almost instantaneous breakup of nearly-weds Karen Walker (Megan Mullally) and Lyle Finster (John Cleese), while wedding singer Jennifer Lopez (as herself) hires--and fires--Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes) Read More

Will & Grace: Season 06

Actors: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, Sean Hayes

Synopsis: Picking up where Season Five of Will & Grace left off, Season Six begins as gay lawyer Will (Eric McCormack) awaken from a drunken evening on an ocean liner to find themselves naked and in the same bed--but with no recollection of how they got there. Simulatenously, Will's straight Read More

Hollywood Ending

Actors: Woody Allen, Téa Leoni, Debra Messing, Mark Rydell, Treat Williams, George Hamilton

Synopsis: A down-on-his luck auteur gets one more chance at the big time -- provided his neuroses don't swallow him whole -- in Woody Allen's 33rd feature release, Hollywood Ending. Allen plays Val Waxman, a one-time cinematic genius who's resorted to taking advertisement work to pay the bills for himself Read More

The Mothman Prophecies

Actors: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton, Debra Messing, Lucinda Jenney, Alan Bates

Synopsis: Based on a book by paranormal investigator John Keel, this spooky, X-Files-type supernatural thriller is purportedly based loosely on true events that occurred in the small town of Point Pleasant, WV, in 1966-1967. Richard Gere stars as journalist John Klein, an up-and-coming reporter devastated Read More

King of the Hill: Get Your Freak Off

Will & Grace: A Bunch of White Chicks Sittin' Around Talkin'

Actors: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally

Synopsis: Parenthood prospects fluster Will and Grace, who consider having a baby; a conjugal visit vexes Karen; a Broadway audition rattles Jack. ~ TV Guide, All Movie Guide Read More

Will & Grace: Season 05

Actors: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally

Synopsis: Fans of Will & Grace were taken aback by the series' fifth season, in which plotlines bordered on the ludicrous and the main characters became more wildly inconsistant--and much, much, more abrasive. For starters, longtime friends and roommates Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing) (he's Read More

Will & Grace: ...And the Horse He Rode in On

Actors: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally

Synopsis: Harry Connick Jr. guest stars as a charming MD drawn to Grace, who's still intent on having a child with Will. ~ TV Guide, All Movie Guide Read More

Will & Grace: A.I.: Artificial Insemination, Part 1

Synopsis: Will and Grace decide to have a child together; Karen becomes enamored of a smooth-talking man-about-town (Rip Torn). ~ TV Guide, All Movie Guide Read More

Will & Grace: Season 04

Actors: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally

Synopsis: As Season Four of Will & Grace gets under way, we find interior designer Grace Adler still living with her oafish boyfriend Nathan (Will Harrelson), but before long she has gravitated back (platonically, of course) to her former roommate, gay lawyer Will Truman (Eric McCormack). Eventually, Nathan Read More

Will & Grace: Season 03

Actors: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally

Synopsis: Season Three of Will & Grace finds gay lawyer Will Truman (Eric McCormack) returning from his annual vacation to find that his straight roommate Grace Adler (Debra Messing) is torn between two lovers, Josh (Corey Parker) and Ben (Gregory Hines), the latter gentleman happening to be Will's law Read More

Jesus

Actors: Jeremy Sisto, Jacqueline Bisset, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Debra Messing, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: He was a poor carpenter who never traveled further than 50 miles from his home and died at the age of 33, but his teachings changed the world and he's still followed by hundreds of millions of people around the world, 2,000 years after his death. Jesus, originally produced as a television Read More

Will & Grace: Season 02

Actors: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally

Synopsis: Moving out of the apartment she shares with gay lawyer Will Truman (Eric McCormack), straight interior designer Grace Adler (Debra Messing) personifies the old adage "gone but not forgotten" when she moves into the apartment next door to Will's as Will & Grace begins its second season. Meanwhile Read More

Will & Grace: Season 01

Actors: Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally

Synopsis: The first season of Will & Grace begins as scatterbrained interior designer Grace Adler (Debra Messing), having broken up with the latest in a long line of boyfriends, moves in with her best friend, level-headed attorney Will Truman (Eric McCormack). The set-up is a bit unorthodox, but there can Read More

Prey

Actors: Debra Messing, Adam Storke, Vincent Ventresca, Frankie R. Faison, Larry Drake

Synopsis: In this science-fiction TV series, bio-anthropologist Dr. Sloan Parker (Debra Messing) encounters an advanced race intent on wiping out present-day humans. Problem is -- they look just like us. In the opening episode, Parker learns that Randall Lynch (Roger Howarth), who murdered her mentor, may Read More

McHale's Navy

Actors: Tom Arnold, Tim Curry, Dean Stockwell, David Alan Grier, Debra Messing

Synopsis: The most disorganized crew in the Navy returns in this updated adaptation of the once-popular TV sitcom. Lt. Cmdr. Quinton McHale (Tom Arnold) has retired from the U.S. Navy and is living on the old PT boat he used to command. He spends his days making the rounds of the Caribbean Island of San Read More

Ned and Stacey: Season 02

Actors: Thomas Haden Church, Debra Messing, Greg Germann, Nadia Dajani, Dori Brenner, Harry Goz, Ford Rainey

Synopsis: Season one of Ned and Stacey concluded as selfish ad executive Ned (Thomas Haden Church) and abrasive left-wing journalist Stacey (Debra Messing) were on the brink of divorcing, thus breaking up the "marriage of convenience" that had been brokered by Stacey's sister Amanda (Nadia Dajani) so that Read More

Seinfeld: The Yada Yada

Synopsis: Yes, this is the one in which George's current girlfriend uses the phrase "yada yada" -- and drives George (Jason Alexander) crazy by leaving out the important details between the "yadas."Tim Whatley, Jerry's dentist (played by Malcolm in the Middle's Bryan Cranston) converts to Judaism, and Jerry Read More

Seinfeld: The Wait Out

Synopsis: In his inimitable fashion, George (Jason Alexander) breaks up someone else's romantic relationship with a few ill-chosen words. Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) develops stomach trouble when Elaine starts driving again. Kramer (Michael Richards) has trouble with his too-tight jeans -- and by extension, so Read More

Ned and Stacey: Season 01

Actors: Thomas Haden Church, Debra Messing, Greg Germann, Nadia Dajani, Dori Brenner, Harry Goz

Synopsis: Here's the premise for season one of Ned and Stacey: abrasive counter-culture journalist Stacey (Debra Messing) is in desperate need of an apartment. Arrogant advertising executive Ned (Thomas Haden Church) needs a wife to improve his image at the ad firm of Kirkland and Haywood, which caters Read More

NYPD Blue: Bombs Away

Synopsis: When serial killer George Putnam (Tim de Zarn) is shot down and killed at the precinct station, the suspects range from the father of Putnam's last victim to the members of a support group. Simone (Jimmy Smits) and Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) arrest a surly Romanian immigrant (Richard Schiff) as a Read More

NYPD Blue: A Murder With Teeth in It

Synopsis: An old cop friend of Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) is the chief suspect in the murder of a pimp. Simone (Jimmy Smits) inadvertently passes this information on to his current girlfriend, a reporter. Elsewhere, Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) is put out when an former ice-skating beau of Donna's (Gail Read More

NYPD Blue: Double Abandando

Synopsis: It's an evening of togetherness as Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Sylvia Costas (Sharon Lawrence) move in together, and Donna Abandando's sister Dana (future Will & Grace star Debra Messing) moves in with Donna (Gail O'Grady) and Greg Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) -- whereupon Dana starts putting her Read More