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Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is
an Emmy Award-winning 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.
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She moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and began appearing in bit parts in films
and television. She made her series debut in The Ellen Burstyn Show 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,
eccentric assistant in the NBC sitcom Will & 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. 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 in character as Karen, alongside Donald Trump.
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. |
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