<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Daniel Zelman (m . 2000; div. 2016) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Debra Lynn Messing (born August 15, 1968) is an American actress . She is known for her many television roles, most notably Grace Adler on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace . </P> <P> Following her graduation from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Messing had short lived tenures on the Fox sitcom Ned & Stacey (1995--1997) and the ABC sci - fi Prey (1998). She rose to prominence in her role as interior designer Grace Adler on Will & Grace (1998 - 2006), earning both commercial and critical success throughout the series' original run . Her performance earned her five Emmy nominations, six Golden Globe nominations, and seven Screen Actors Guild nominations, ultimately winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2003 and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2001 . As of 2017 she is reprising the role of Grace Adler in NBC's reboot of the show . </P>

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