Debi Mazar Movies, Early Life, Background, Career Highlights, Personal Life, Husband and Net Worth

American actress and television personality, Debi Mazar movies have earned her wide recognition and net worth, but the credit goes to her astounding acting skills and performance.

Synopsis

Born in 1964, Debi Mazar is best known for her Jersey Girl-type roles as well as a sharp tongued woman in the films. Debi Mazar movies appearances started from Goodfellas (1990) where she landed a role as a supporting actress. She and her husband began her cooking show, Extra Virgin in 2014. Additionally, she garnered fame for her role as press agent in HBO series Entourage. Currently, she is starring as Maggie Amato in TV Land’s Younger.

Early Life and Background

Debi Mazar was born on August 13, 1964 in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York. She is an American born to Nancy and Harry Mazar. Though her father was born in Soviet Union to a Jewish family, he grew up as a Roman Catholic.

Mazar grew up in upstate New York with her mother. Later, she relocated to Long Island where she lived with her godparents. Before Debi Mazar movies appearances, she worked odd jobs like selling jewelry, as a dental assistant and at nightclub.

Professional Career Highlights

Debi Mazar was working at Daceteria where she met Madonna. Instantly, Madonna hired Mazar to do her makeup for music video pf “Everybody”. Afterwards, Debi Mazar made her appearance in television through a hip hop dance show Graffiti Rock in 1984. Gradually, she appeared in Madonna’s music videos for “Papa Don’t Preach”, “True Blue”, “Justify My Love” and a couple of others.

Debi Mazar movies appearances started in 1990 during which she played a supporting role in Goodfellas. She also got supporting roles for The Doors (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Bullet Over Broadway (1994) as well as Batman Forever (1995). Later, she landed a recurring role in TV drama L.A. Law during 1993-94.

Some of her remarkable roles are Regina in Beethoven’s 2^nd (1993) and in independent films Inside Monkey Zetterland and Nowhere. Furthermore, she landed the role of “Doreen, the Evil Bitch” in an episode of popular show Friends. Her other roles include Debi in The Insider (1999) and Jackie in That’s Life (2000-02).

From 2004 to 2011, Debi Mazar made an appearance as a press agent, Shauna Robert, in Entourage. She gained recurring role in sitcom Living with Fran and Ugly Betty as Leah Stillman.

Mazar’s prominence gained a new height as she appeared as a contestant in ninth season of Dancing with the Stars where she partnered with Maksin Chmerkovskiy. Later, she began appearing on a Cooking Channel during 2011. The show also featured her family who showcased their own recipes. She and her husband, Gabriele Corcos, initiated another show Extra Virgin Americana. For the show, they travelled the US in search of great food.

Personal Life and Family

Debi Mazar dated actor Paul Reubens for many years starting from 1993. She married Gabriele Corcos in 2002 with whom she has 2 daughters, Giulia and Evelina. They currently reside in Brooklyn, New York and has opened a café/restaurant, Tuscan Gun. The family divides their time between Brooklyn and Florence, Italy where they own a 15^th century home. Mazar’s in-laws had gifted them the house as their wedding present.

The couple hosted an internet show, Under the Tuscan Gun, and hosted their cooking show, Extra Virgin in 2011. They even released a cookbook, Recipes & Love From Our Tuscan Kitchen in 2014. Mazar and Gabriele appeared on an episode of ABC show The Chew in 2014 to promote their show, Extra Virgin.

They had several dogs among which, Delores, was featured in the first season of Extra Virgin until his death.

Salary and Net Worth

The prominent actress and show host, Debi Mazar movies appearances and television enthusiasm has garnered her $7.5 million. Still one of the well recognizable personalities, Debi Mazar has a growing net worth through her cooking show.