Megan Mullally Biography

Megan Mullally (born November 12, 1958, in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress.

Megan Mullally 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.

Megan Mullally 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, Megan Mullally 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 the announcement that Will & Grace' will end in May 2006, Megan Mullally has signed a talk show deal to begin in Fall 2006.

Megan Mullally Biography

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)

Facts

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.
Megan 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 bis--ual 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.
Megan Mullally has appeared in ads for M&M's candies and the website cheaptickets.com.
Mullally lives in West Hollywood, California with her two poodles, Wilma and Elmo.

Film List

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 S-- (2001)
Monkeybone (2001)
Stealing Harvard (2002)
Teacher's Pet (2004) (voice)
Rebound (2005)