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Debra Monk (born February 27, 1949) is an American actress, singer, and writer, best known for her performances on the Broadway stage. Monk has received a Tony Award and Emmy Awards.
Monk was born in Middletown, Ohio. She was voted “best personality” by the graduating class at Wheaton High School in Silver Spring,Maryland. She graduated from Frostburg State University in 1973. In 1975, Monk received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Monk garnered first attention in theatrical circles as one of the co-writers and co-stars of the 1982 musical Pump Boys and Dinettes. She has won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for performance in Redwood Curtain (1993). She also was nominated an Tony Award for roles in Picnic (1994), Steel Pier (1997), and Curtains (2007). In 2000, she has won Obie Award for The Time of the Cuckoo. Monk has appeared in over 30 films as of early 1990s. She made her film debut in the movie version of Prelude to a Kiss, playing Aunt Dorothy. She later appeared in The Bridges of Madison County and The Devil’s Advocate. On television, she has won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for recurring performance as Katie Sipowicz in the ABC series, NYPD Blue. She also guest-starred on Law & Order, Desperate Housewives, The Closer, and Girls. Monk had a recurring roles in A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001-2002), Grey’s Anatomy (2006-2011), and Damages (2007-2012).
Debra Monk Biography / Wiki
| Name | Debra Monk |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Middletown – Ohio – USA |
| Date of Birth | 1949-02-27 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 73 |
| Deathday |
Debra Monk Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Redwood Curtain | Geneva, Laird’s Sister | 1995-01-01 | Geri Riordan is adopted, half-Vietnamese, eighteen, and a piano prodigy. She also feels as if she doesn’t know who she really is, and when her adopted… |
| The Music Man | Mrs. Paroo | 2003-02-16 | Con man “Professor” Harold Hill arrives in River City, Iowa, promising that he can teach the small town’s children how to play in a magnificent marchi… |
| Eloise at Christmastime | Maggie | 2003-11-23 | Eloise is a precocious but lovable six-year-old girl who lives in New York’s Plaza hotel. The owner of the hotel’s daughter is getting married, but El… |
| Ellen Foster | Aunt Nadine | 1997-12-14 | After her mother’s death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to f… |
| Knitwits | Catherine | 1997-01-01 | Saturday afternoon in a knitting store in New York City…. |
| Knitwits Revisited | Catherine | 1999-01-01 | KnitWits Revisited brings us back to the KnitWits’ knitting store…. |
| Bed of Roses | Lewis’ Mom | 1996-01-26 | The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies c… |
| Milwaukee, Minnesota | Edna Burroghs | 2003-01-21 | Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for himself when an unidentified automobile suddenly k… |
| Plain Dirty | Officer Avon | 2003-01-20 | Inez Macbeth is a pretty young woman married to Edgar, a moody and unstable felon. When Inez becomes interested in the sensitive and wealthy lawyer Dr… |
| Eloise at the Plaza | 2003-01-01 | Eloise is a precocious but loveable six-year-old girl who lives in New York’s Plaza hotel. Eloise’s long-suffering nanny has her hands full trying to … | |
| The Other Woman | Laura Greenleaf | 2010-10-28 | Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief followi… |
| Palindromes | Mama Sunshine | 2004-09-03 | Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper fr… |
| Good Luck Charlie, It’s Christmas! | Petunia | 2011-12-08 | Teddy Duncan’s middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs… |
| Extreme Measures | Dr. Judith Gruszynski | 1996-09-27 | Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency roo… |
| Mrs. Winterbourne | Lieutenant Ambrose | 1996-04-19 | Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. Th… |
| Demolition | Davis’ Mom | 2016-04-06 | An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets…. |
| The Bridges of Madison County | Madge | 1995-05-28 | Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s…. |
| The Great Buck Howard | Doreen | 2008-01-18 | When a law school dropout answers an advertisement to be a personal assistant he unknowingly signs on to work for a belligerent has-been magician stru… |
| Dark Water | Young Dahlia’s Teacher | 2005-07-08 | Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York’s Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceeding… |
| One for the Money | Mrs. Plum | 2012-01-26 | An unemployed lingerie buyer convinces her bail bondsman cousin to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former … |
| Standing Up, Falling Down | Jeanie Rollins | 2020-02-21 | An unlikely friendship kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A.—forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island with his tail betwee… |
| The Devil’s Advocate | Pam Garrety | 1997-10-17 | Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that… |
| Prelude to a Kiss | Aunt Dorothy | 1992-07-10 | A couple fall in love despite the girl’s pessimistic outlook. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happen… |
| The Producers | Lick Me-Bite Me | 2005-12-25 | After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick sc… |
| The Savages | Nancy Lachman | 2007-01-19 | A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father…. |
| Jeffrey | Mom | 1995-08-18 | Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect … |
| The Brass Teapot | Trudy | 2012-09-08 | When a couple discovers that a brass teapot makes them money whenever they hurt themselves, they must come to terms with how far they are willing to g… |
| The Substance of Fire | Martha Hackett | 1996-09-11 | Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the gr… |
| Center Stage | Nancy | 2000-05-12 | A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals wit… |
| Reckless | Therapist | 1995-11-17 | On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters…. |
| For Love or Money | Mrs. Wegman | 1993-10-01 | New York concierge Doug Ireland wants to go into business for himself and refurbish a hotel on Roosevelt Island, N.Y., but he needs an investor. With … |
| Fearless | Alison | 1993-10-15 | After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike an… |
| This Is Where I Leave You | Linda Callen | 2014-09-10 | When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested — with an admonition — to stay ther… |
| My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies | Self – Performer | 1999-12-01 | On Sept. 28, 1998, some of the greatest divas in musical theater — including Marin Mazzie, Judy Kuhn and Audra McDonald — took the stage at New York… |
| Bulworth | Helen | 1998-05-15 | A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecti… |
| The First Wives Club | Jilted Lover | 1996-09-20 | After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the tr… |
| Quiz Show | Kintner’s Secretary | 1994-08-25 | Lawyer Richard Goodwin discovers that ‘Twenty-One’, a successful TV quiz show, is rigged and decides to expose the team behind the show…. |
| In & Out | Mrs. Lester | 1997-09-10 | A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards…. |
Credit: TMDB
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