FrameThrower · Actors · Debra Messing
Debra Messing
3 films · 311 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2002–2025
Born 15 August 1968 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Debra Lynn Messing is an American actress. After graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Messing starred in the shortlived television series, Ned and Stacey on Fox (1995–1997), and Prey on ABC (1998). She achieved her breakthrough role as Grace Adler, an interior designer, on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace (1998–2006, 2017–2020), for which she received seven Golden Globe Award nominations and five Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, winning once, in 2003.
From 2007 to 2008, Messing starred as Molly Kagan, the ex-wife of a Hollywood film mogul, on the television miniseries The Starter Wife, for which she received two Golden…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 311 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2002–2025
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series2004
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series2003
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series2002
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series2001
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series2000
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series2003
- TV Guide Award2016
- TV Guide Award2012
- Lucy Award2005
- Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy2003
- Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy2002
- TV Guide Award2001
How their films are shot
Measured across 311 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Debra takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Debra takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 311 frames from Debra Messing's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.