27 Facts About Debi Mazar

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Deborah Anne Mazar Corcos is an American actress and television personality who plays sharp-tongued women.

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Debi Mazar portrayed press agent Shauna Roberts on the HBO series Entourage.

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Debi Mazar starred as Maggie Amato on TV Land's longest running original series, Younger, and alongside her husband Gabriele Corcos in the Cooking Channel series Extra Virgin.

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Debi Mazar was born in Queens, New York City, the daughter of Nancy and Harry Debi Mazar.

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Debi Mazar's father was born in German-occupied Latvia to a Jewish family.

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Debi Mazar had no knowledge of her father's ancestry until her twenties as he practiced Catholicism.

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Debi Mazar's parents annulled their marriage shortly after she was born, and she spent her early life in the country in upstate New York with her mother.

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Debi Mazar worked various odd jobs, including selling jewelry at Fiorucci with Linda Ramone and Joey Arias, later as a dental assistant, and at a nightclub.

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Debi Mazar originated the hair and makeup for the play Speed-the-Plow.

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Debi Mazar began her career as a hip hop b-girl in New York City.

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Debi Mazar has played a number of minor supporting roles in a variety of films, including Sandy, a friend of Henry Hill's mistress in Goodfellas ; The Doors ; a small role in Spike Lee's Malcolm X ; Bullets Over Broadway ; and as Spice in Batman Forever.

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Debi Mazar gained her first real following from playing a character on Civil Wars in the early 1990s.

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Debi Mazar played the villain Regina, a modern-day Cruella de Vil, in the family film Beethoven's 2nd.

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Debi Mazar has appeared in independent films Inside Monkey Zetterland and Nowhere and her short-lived sitcom, Temporarily Yours.

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Debi Mazar appeared as the genie in the Space Monkeys' music video, "Sugarcane".

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Debi Mazar appeared on a Friends episode in its eighth season.

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Debi Mazar played "Doreen, the Evil Bitch," a crazed pregnant woman who shares a hospital room with Rachel.

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Debi Mazar provided the voice of Maria Latore in the video games Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

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Debi Mazar had a recurring role on the sitcom Living with Fran, as Merrill, the cousin of Fran Drescher's character.

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Debi Mazar did a two-episode stint on the television series Ugly Betty as fraudster Leah Stillman.

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Debi Mazar was a contestant on the ninth season of Dancing With the Stars.

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Debi Mazar was partnered with Maksim Chmerkovskiy and finished in twelfth place, eliminated in the third week.

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In 2012, Debi Mazar played Jessica, a glamorous, leather-clad villainess in Home Alone: The Holiday Heist.

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From 2015 to 2021, Debi Mazar starred in Younger with Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff as Maggie Amato.

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Debi Mazar appeared in the second season of The $100,000 Pyramid reboot on ABC on August 6,2017.

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Reubens has since credited Debi Mazar with ending his depression resulting from his 1991 arrest.

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Debi Mazar married Gabriele Corcos on March 16,2002, in a ceremony officiated by Ellen Burstyn.