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Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actress.
She grew up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 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. Following her high school graduation from Casady High 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.
She moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and began appearing in bit parts in films. She made her television debut in the series The Ellen Burstyn Show (1986) and guest starred in popular sitcoms such as Seinfeld, Frasier, Wings, and Mad About You. In 1998, she landed the role of Karen Walker, Grace's shrill-voiced, pill-popping, extremely wealthy assistant in the NBC sitcom Will and Grace. She won an Emmy Award in 2000 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (and was nominated again in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005), and she has also won three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
She made her Broadway debut in 1994 in Grease and later appeared in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. She opened in her own one-woman show, Sweetheart, in Los Angeles in 1999.
Mullally is also a singer and performs in her own group called The Supreme Music Program. The band has released two critically heralded albums: The Sweet-Heart Break and Big as a Berry.
Mullally came out as bisexual in a 1999 interview in The Advocate magazine.
She married actor Nick Offerman (who guest-starred on Will & Grace during its fourth season) in September 2003. She was formerly married to talent agent Michael Katcher in the mid-1990s.
With Will & Grace's 8th season (2005 - 2006) presumed to be its last, Mullally has signed a talk show deal to begin in Fall 2006.
Mullally has appeared in ads for M&M's candies and the website cheaptickets.com.
Megan Mullally Filmography
Actor
• Will & Grace - Season Four (2005)
• Rebound (2005)
• Teacher's Pet (2004)
• Good Boy! (2003)
• Stealing Harvard (2002)
• Best Man in Grass Creek (2001)
• Monkeybone (2001)
• Anywhere But Here (1999)
• About Last Night (1986)
• Last Resort (1986)
Voice
• Teacher's Pet (2004)
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