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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. In 1995 Messing made her film debut, in the director Alfonso Arau?s love story A Walk in the Clouds, in which she had a small role as the wife of a World War II veteran (
Keanu Reeves). This exposure led the Fox network to make her the co-star of the television sitcom
Ned and Stacey; the series, about a young man and a young woman who marry for reasons other than love after knowing each other for only a week, lasted for two seasons (1995-1997). Messing appeared as Jerry Seinfeld's date in two episodes of the hit television show Seinfeld: "The Wait Out" in 1996, and "The Yada Yada" in 1997. The actress turned down a starring role in another television sitcom to appear in Donald Margulies?s two-character play Collected Stories, which opened at the Manhattan Theater Club, an Off-Broadway venue, in 1997. messing portrayed the protégé and, ultimately, literary betrayer of a famous short-story writer (Maria Tucci).
In 1998 Messing had a lead role as the bioanthropologist Sloan Parker on ABC's dramatic science-fiction television series Prey
. Meanwhile, Messing's agent had approached the actress with the pilot script for the television show Will & Grace, Messing was inclined to take some time off, but the pilot for Will & Grace intrigued her.
Messing was hand-picked by Woody Allen for a small role in his movie Celebrity (1998). In an interview later, Messing described the method Allen used to enable her to discover the essence of her character, one that resulted in nerve-racking uncertainty for the actress, who during her first four days on the set got no feedback from Allen. After he offered his first words of guidance, on the fifth day, Messing felt herself undergoing a transformation.
Messing's big-screen roles also include turns as a happily married but ill-fated wife in the supernatural thriller The Mothman Prophecies (2002), which also starred Richard Gere.
Messing met her future husband, Daniel Zelman, an actor and screenwriter, on their first day as graduate students at NYU. She and Zelman, who were married on September 3, 2000, live in Los Angeles.
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MoviesThe Women
Starring:
Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Eva Mendes
Review:
Updating a comedy classic is not a good idea. Case in point:
this misbegotten redo of Clare Booth Luce's 1936 play (and 1939
movie) about pampered Manhattan women who gossip about men who are
never seen. Think Sex and the City without the sex.
Murphy Brown creator Diane English has been trying to do
this movie since her sitcom went off the air in 1998. It's finally
here, and it's a major dud. A big-name cast of actresses gives it a
go, but everyone from Meg Ryan as the cheated-on wife to Eva Mendes
as the home-wrecking perfume girl struggles with a script that
resists being crowbarred into the 21st century. OK, the ladies do
more bonding than belittling each other, but the jokes barely
escape their lips before they wither and die. Ironically, it's
Murphy herself, Candice Bergen, in a cameo...
Rating:
1 Star
Published: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:11:12 GMT - Source: Rollingstone.Com - Read the article
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