Debra Messing was born into a Jewish family in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on August 15, 1968.
Debra Messing was born into a Jewish family in the New York City borough of Brooklyn on August 15, 1968. When she was three she moved with her parent and her older brother, Brett, to a quiet town outside Providence, Rhode Island. Her father, Brian Messing, is a sales executive for a jewelry manufacturer; her mother, Sandy Messing, has worked as a professional singer, banker, travel agent, and real-estate agent. As a youngster Messing took lessons in dance, singing, and acting. "I remember watching the television show Fame and wanting to dance on top of a taxi," Messing told Jennifer Kasle Furmaniak forCosmopolitan (February 2001). She recalled to Roz Brooks for Complete Woman(September 1999), "I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show." While Messing's parents encouraged her dream of becoming an actress, they also urged her to get a standard liberal-arts education before deciding on acting as a career. Heeding their advice, she attended Brandeis University, in Walsham, Massachusetts. During her junior year she studied theater at the prestigious British European Studio Group of London program, in England, an experience that fueled her desire to act. After graduating summa cum laude from Braneis, in 1990, with a bachelor's degree in theater arts, Messing gained admission to the elite Graduate Acting Program at New York University (NYU), which accepts only about 15 new students annually. Three years later she earned a master's degree in fine arts from NYU.
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