Debi Mazar

Debi Mazar (born August 15, 1964) is an actress known for her trademark Jersey Girl-type appearances, and as an edgy, sharp-tongued women in independent films. She began her career as a hip hop b-girl in New York City in the 1980s and befriended a pre-fame Madonna.

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August 15 - 1964 - Actress - Independent film - B-girl - New York City - 1980 - Madonna

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Her first television appearance was on the pilot for a hip hop telelvision dance show, Graffiti Rock in 1984.

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She also appeared in three Madonna videos - "True Blue", "Papa Don't Preach" and in "Music".

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Mazar has played a number of minor-yet-colorful supporting roles in a variety of movies, including: as Sandy, Henry Hill's girl on the side in GoodFellas (1990), The Doors, Bullets Over Broadway, and as Spice (of Sugar and Spice) in Batman Forever (1995).

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GoodFellas - The Doors - Bullets Over Broadway - Batman Forever

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She had a recurring role in the 1993-94 season of the TV drama L.A. Law.

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She has appeared in independent films like Inside Monkey Zetterland and Nowhere but has also dabbled in mainstream attempts like Batman and her short-lived sitcom "Temporarily Yours." (The sitcom was about a woman who, in an attempt to get a good apartment in New York, lies about being employed with a temp agency and then shows up at the agency begging for work.) From 2000–2002 she played "Jackie" on the television drama That's Life.

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Inside Monkey Zetterland - Nowhere - Batman - Temporarily Yours - New York - 2000 - 2002 - That's Life

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Currently, she is in a supporting actor role on Entourage, an original comedy series on HBO.

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Entourage - HBO

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Mazar's father, Harry Mazar, was born in Latvia to a Jewish family that had to hide during WWII; her mother, Nancy Kappes, is of Italian Catholic descent.

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Latvia - Jewish - WWII - Italian - Catholic

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