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Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958 in Los
Angeles, California, USA) is a three-time SAG and two-time Emmy Award-winning
Irish-American actress, talk show host, singer and comedian, best known for her
role as Karen Walker on Will & Grace.
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Born November 12, 1958 (1958-11-12) (age 48)
Los Angeles, California
Spouse(s) Michael A. Katcher
(1992-1996)
Nick Offerman
(2003-present)
Official site meganmullally.net
Notable roles Karen Walker on Will and Grace
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
2000 and 2006 Will and Grace
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Best Actress in a Comedy Series
2001 – 2003 Will and Grace
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Early
life
Born in Los Angeles, Mullally moved to Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, at the age of 7. Her father, Carter Mullally, Jr., was a
contract player with Paramount Pictures during the 1950s and her mother was a
model. She studied ballet from the age of six and performed in a ballet company
during high school. She revealed on a March 2006 episode of NBC's The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno that she spent her summers in Los Angeles because of her
mother's work.
Following her graduation from Casady School, she
attended Northwestern University, where she majored in English Literature and
Art History. She became active in local theater and eventually left college
without graduating. She worked in Chicago theater for six years.
Career
Television
Mullally moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and, after
just two weeks as a client with the William Morris Agency, she began appearing
in bit parts in films and television, such as Murder She Wrote with Angela
Lansbury. Megan made her series debut in The Ellen Burstyn Show and guest
starred in popular sitcoms such as Seinfeld, Frasier, Wings, Ned and Stacey
(with future Will & Grace castmate Debra Messing), Mad About You, and Just Shoot
Me!
In 1998, she landed the role of Karen Walker, Grace
Adler's shrill-voiced, pill-popping, eccentric assistant in the NBC sitcom Will
& Grace. She won Emmy Awards in 2000 and 2006 for Outstanding Supporting Actress
in a Comedy Series (and was also nominated in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005),
and she has also won three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Although she did not win
the Emmy in 2005, she did, based on votes from viewers, win the "Emmy Idol"
award for singing the Green Acres theme song, in character as Karen, alongside
Donald Trump. Although her own voice has a fairly high range, she developed an
exaggerated high voice (nearly falsetto) for the Karen Walker character.
However, in the pilot episode of the series, she used her real voice. Will &
Grace ended in May 2006.
Mullally subsequently hosted her own talk show, The
Megan Mullally Show, which was launched in September 2006. The talk show was
canceled in early 2007 due to poor ratings. [1] [2]
Mullally was the host of the 2006 TV Land Awards.
She has also been featured in advertisements for M&M's candies and the website
cheaptickets.com. Mullally also had a voice cameo as the mother of Neil Patrick
Harris' character's mother on a November 2006 episode of the CBS sitcom How I
Met Your Mother, and guest starred on Campus Ladies. She is slated to be
featured in several episodes of the dramedy Boston Legal in 2007.
Theater
and music
She made her Broadway debut in 1994 in a revival of
Grease in the role of Marty, with Rosie O'Donnell and later appeared in How to
Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Matthew Broderick. She is heard
in the cast albums of both productions. She opened in her own one-woman show,
Sweetheart, in Los Angeles in 1999.
Mullally has performed at the Orange County
Performing Arts Center as part of their 2006 Cabaret series. She will return to
the Broadway stage in Mel Brooks' new musical Young Frankenstein, in which she
will play Elizabeth, the prissy fiancée to Dr. Frankenstein. Young Frankenstein
is expected to open at the St. James Theatre in November, 2007.
Mullally is also a singer and performs in her own
group called The Supreme Music Program. The band has released two albums, The
Sweetheart Break-In and Big as a Berry. She also recorded a duet with Carly
Simon on the track The Right Thing To Do for the Will & Grace: Let the Music
Out! soundtrack.
Film
Her feature film debut was as a call girl in Risky
Business and has parts in Stealing Harvard and the Martin Lawrence comedy
Rebound. She also is a voice actress who has done work on several cartoons, such
as the 1990s version The Flintstones, Batman: The Animated Series, King of the
Hill and the Disney feature film Teacher's Pet.
Personal life
Mullally commented in a 1999 interview in The
Advocate magazine, "I consider myself bisexual, and my philosophy is, everyone
innately is."
Her first marriage, in the mid-1990s, was to talent
agent Michael Katcher. In 2003, she married actor Nick Offerman (who
guest-starred on Will & Grace during its fourth season). She currently lives in
West Hollywood, California, with her husband and two poodles, Willa and Elmo.
Trivia
Mullally discovered comedian and actor Bill Hader
while he was with the troupe Animals from the Future.
Mullally admitted that she dated actor William H.
Macy while in college, during an interview with Macy's current wife, Felicity
Huffman, on The Megan Mullally Show.
Awards
Emmy
Awards
2000 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Series - Will & Grace - (Won)
2001 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Series - Will & Grace - (Nominated)
2002 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Series - Will & Grace - (Nominated)
2003 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Series - Will & Grace - (Nominated)
2004 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Series - Will & Grace - (Nominated)
2005 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Series - Will & Grace - (Nominated)
2006 - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Series - Will & Grace - (Won)
Screen
Actors Guild Awards
2000 - Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Will &
Grace - (Nominated)
2001 - Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Will &
Grace - (Won)
2002 - Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Will &
Grace - (Won)
2003 - Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Will &
Grace - (Won)
2004 - Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Will &
Grace - (Nominated)
2005 - Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Will &
Grace - (Nominated)
2006 - Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Will &
Grace - (Nominated)
Filmography
Risky Business (1983)
Once Bitten (1985)
Last Resort (1986)
About Last Night... (1986)
Queens Logic (1991)
The Pact (1998)
Anywhere But Here (1999)
Best Man in Grass Creek (1999)
Everything Put Together (2000)
Speaking of Sex (2001)
Monkeybone (2001)
Stealing Harvard (2002)
Teacher's Pet (2004) (voice)
Rebound (2005)
Bee Movie (2007) (voice)
Third Rock From the Sun (special guest star)
References
Megan Mullally, Biography Resource Center Online.
Gale Group, 1999.
Jamie Painter Young, Clowning Glory. Back Stage. 19
Dec. 2003: B-38.
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