Debra McGrath

Debra McGrath born July 5th 1954 is a Canadian actress and comedian She first started her career with three years as a member of The Second City in Toronto Ontario from 1983 to 1985 where she was a writer and actress and eventually a director She was best known for a takeoff of Marilyn Monroe and the song Condoms are a Girls Best Friend During the late 1980s she appeared with Second City at anniversary comedy festival and Club Soda performances In 1990 she cocreated My Talk Show with Linda Kash a sitcom featuring a talk show broadcast from the hosts basement The series ran for one year with fiftynine episodes She was also a cowriter of the Canadian Womens Television Networks Go Girl a sendup of a cable TV talk show that debuted in 1997 In 2002 she appeared in the film Expecting directed by Deborah Day which won Most Popular Canadian Film at the 2002 Vancouver International Film Festival For this role she won the award for Best Performance in a Feature Female at the 2004 Canadian Comedy Awards Alongside Paul OSullivan Rebecca Northan Lisa Merchant and Peter Oldring she received a Gemini Award nomination for Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series at the 19th Gemini Awards in 2004 for The Joe Blow Show With her husband Colin Mochrie and Deborah Day she cocreated and starred in the CBC television series Getting Along Famously 2006 about a fictional couple who star in a 1960s TV variety show The 2005 pilot show of Getting Along Famously was nominated for two Gemini Awards including Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series She also starred in the childrens series Seven Little Monsters 20002003 and in Little Mosque on the Prairie 20072012 in which she played Mayor Popowitcz In 2003 she formed a comedy troupe called Women Fully Clothed with four other Canadian comedy artists She left the troupe in the first half of 2009 She has also voiced characters in many other animated shows including The Raccoons 1991 The Busy World of Richard Scarry 19931997 Stories From My Childhood 1998 George and Martha Valerie Chuckles 19992000 Babar 2000 George Shrinks Mrs Lopez 20002001 Franklin and the Green Knight 2000 and Peep and the Big Wide World 20052007 She was formerly married to actor Dana Anderson In 1989 she married fellow comedian and Second City alumnus Colin Mochrie They have one child a trans daughter Kinley Mochrie From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia