Mullally as Karen Walker in Will & Grace Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958, in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress. Contents 1 Early Life 2 Acting Career 3 Emmy Awards 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links Early Life 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. Mullally revealed during a March 2006 episode of NBC's The Tonight Show that her mother usually left her alone for most of the day while she worked. She recounted a day where she and her friend called up strangers culled from the classifieds of a pornographic newspaper. Both young girls then went to a French porn movie and afterward, flirted with the members of a mailman convention that was being held at the hotel that they lived in. Following her 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. Acting Career 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, Ned and Stacey,and Mad About You. She made her Broadway debut in 1994 in a revival of 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. 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 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. 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 and Mullally is set to start hosting a talk show in the fall of 2006. 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 Sweetheart Break-In and Big as a Berry. Mullally came out as bisexual in a 1999 interview in The Advocate magazine. Since 2003, she has been married to actor Nick Offerman (who guest-starred on Will & Grace during its fourth season). She was formerly married to talent agent Michael Katcher in the mid-1990s. Mullally has appeared (singing) in ads for M&M's candies and the website cheaptickets.com. She lives in West Hollywood, California, with her two poodles, Willa and Elmo. She was the host of the 2006 TV Land Awards. Most recently performed at the Orange County Performing Arts Center as part of their 2006 Caberet series. 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) Filmography Risky Business (1983) Once Bitten (1985) Last Resort (1986) About Last Night... (1986) Queens Logic (1991) Anywhere But Where (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) Preceded by: Cedric The Entertainer Host of TV Land Awards 2006 Succeeded by: TBA References Megan Mullally, Biography Resource Center Online. Gale Group, 1999. 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