Debra Monk

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Emmy, Tony, Obie and Drama Desk Award-winner Debra Monk has appeared on film in: Standing Up Falling Down; Demolition; This Is Where I Leave You; Reaching Home; One For the Money; Ass Backwards; The Great Buck Howard; The Savages; Palindromes; Center Stage; Devil's Advocate; In &...Read more

Emmy, Tony, Obie and Drama Desk Award-winner Debra Monk has appeared on film in: Standing Up Falling Down; Demolition; This Is Where I Leave You; Reaching Home; One For the Money; Ass Backwards; The Great Buck Howard; The Savages; Palindromes; Center Stage; Devil's Advocate; In & Out; Extreme Measures; The Bridges of Madison County; Jeffrey; and Fearless.

She has starred on Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Curtains (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination); Chicago; Reckless; Thou Shalt Not; Ah, Wilderness!; Steel Pier (Tony nomination); Company; Picnic (Tony nomination); Redwood Curtain (Tony Award); Nick and Nora; and Pump Boys and Dinettes (Co-Author, Tony Nomination). Off-Broadway, she was featured in the original company of Assassins, as well as appearing in Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Show People; The Seagull; The Time of the Cuckoo (Obie Award); Death-Defying Acts; Three Hotels; and Oil City Symphony (Co-author, Drama Desk Award).

On Television, she has appeared on New Amsterdam,  Mozart in the Jungle, Tell Me a Story, Diet Land, Mr. Mercedes, Grey's AnatomyDamagesGleeWhite CollarMercy StreetMadam SecretaryBlindspot, Reckless, GirlsBrothers and SistersGhost WhispererThe Closer, Notes from the UnderbellyDesperate Housewives, Law and OrderFrasier and has appeared in the TV movies: Good Luck, Charlie: It's Christmas!The Music ManEloise at the Plaza, Eloise at Christmastime, Ellen Foster, and Redwood Curtain (reviving her Tony-winning performance).

Debra won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Katie Sipowicz on NYPD Blue.

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