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Megan Mullally (born November 12 , 1958 , in Los Angeles, California , USA ) is an Emmy Award -winning American Actress . 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 while there, flirted with the members of a Mailman convention that was being held at the hotel that they lived in. 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. 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 '', 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. With the announcement that ''Will & Grace'' will end in May 2006 , Mullally has signed a Talk Show deal to begin in Fall 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 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 (singing) in ads for M&M's candies and the website cheaptickets.com. She lives in West Hollywood, California , with her two Poodle s, 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
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