Attended Northwestern University
Auditioned for the role of Elaine on "Seinfeld" (1990). (According to the Seinfeld special, aired on 25 November 2004.)
Before she was cast to appear with Debra Messing on "Will & Grace" (1998), Megan Mullally appeared on an episode of Messing's previous series "Ned and Stacey" (1995).
Close friend is "ER" (1994) actress Laura Innes. The two met at Northwestern University in the late 70s and have been friends ever since.
First cast member of "Will & Grace" (1998) to win an Emmy. She won in 2000 for Outstanding performance by an actress in a supporting role comedy. Her co-star, Sean Hayes, also won that year.
Graduated from Casady High School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Has won 3 consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) for Outstanding performance by an actress in a comedy, and has a total of 4 SAG Awards and 2 Emmy Awards.
Her father, Carter Mullally Jr., who died in 1992, was a contract player with Paramount in the 1950s. Her mother, Martha, was formerly a model.
Irish-American.
Lives in West Hollywood, California with her poodles, Willa and Elmo.
Megan announced her engagement to actor Nick Offerman in September 2002.
Originally auditioned for "Grace" on "Will & Grace" (1998), but was later cast as "Karen".
She appeared in an episode of "Ned and Stacey" (1995), although she didn't have a single scene with future "Will & Grace" (1998) co-star Debra Messing.
She is the lead singer in the LA band, The Supreme Music Program.
She starred in and directed an original performance art piece, The Sweetheart Break-In. The band released a CD of some of the songs in the show, called 'The Supreme Music Program: The Sweetheart Break-In'. They have released two other CDs called 'Big As A Berry' and 'Free Again'.
She studied ballet and was a soloist with Oklahoma City's Ballet Oklahoma. She also studied at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet.
She was nominated for a 1979 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Musical for her performance in "Bagtime" at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
Starred as Beverly in the acclaimed production of Adam Bart's "The Receptionist" at the Odyssey Theatre (notably, the longest sold-out run of a show in that theater's history), for which she was awarded the 2010 Backstage West Garland Award for Best Performance by an Actress.
Was featured in "Theater Week" as one of six "New Faces of 1995," alongside Rufus Sewell, Jude Law, Jennifer Dundas, Justin Kirk, and Billy Crudup. Ironically, she stated in that issue that she was done with television, and in five years would like "to be doing plays and musicals [in New York], and also film work."
Withdrew from the Broadway production of "Lips Together, Teeth Apart", due to difficulties with the director, Joe Mantello.