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.

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 & 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.

Facts

• 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.

• 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 in ads for M&M's candies and the website cheaptickets.com.

• Mullally lives in West Hollywood, California.

Selected filmography

• Rebound (2005)
• Teacher's Pet (2004) (voice)
• Stealing Harvard (2002)
• Anywhere But Here (1999)
• Will & Grace (1998) (TV series)
• I Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993) (TV) (voice)
• Fish Police (1992) (TV series)
• About Last Night (1986)
• Risky Business (1983)

References

• Megan Mullally, Biography Resource Center Online. Gale Group, 1999.
• Jamie Painter Young, Clowning Glory. Back Stage. 19 Dec. 2003: B-38.

External links

• Megan Mullally at the Internet Movie Database
• Official Website
• Megan Mullally UK Fansite - Includes wallpapers, interviews and multimediafr:Megan Mullally

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