Debi Mazar Corcos (; born August 13, 1964 See also:) is an American actress and television personality. She began her career with supporting roles in Goodfellas (1990), Little Man Tate (1991), Singles (1992), and Batman Forever (1995), followed by lead roles on the legal drama series Civil Wars (1991–1993) and L.A. Law (1993–1994). She portrayed press agent Shauna Roberts on the HBO series Entourage. She starred as Maggie Amato on TV Land's Younger, and alongside her husband Gabriele Corcos in the Cooking Channel series Extra Virgin.
Early life Mazar was born in Queens, New York, the daughter of Nancy and Harry Mazar. Her father was born Harija FogelmanisSearch word for Fogelmanis: Harija Aka Harry Fogelmanis Aka Mazar and Nancy Kapies, 1964, Queens, New York City, New York, United States;Marriage, Queens, New York City, New York, United States, from Reclaim the Records, The NYC Marriage Index, citing New York City Clerk's Office. to a Jewish family in German-occupied Latvia. Mazar had no knowledge of her father's ancestry until her twenties, as he practiced Catholicism. Mazar's parents annulled their marriage shortly after she was born, and she spent her early life with her mother in the country in upstate New York. As a teenager, she relocated to Long Island, where she lived with her godparents.
Mazar left home at the age of 15, and by 16 she was working as a VIP doorperson at the Mudd Club in New York City. She then went to work at Danceteria. Mazar worked various odd jobs, including selling jewelry at Fiorucci with Linda Ramone and Joey Arias, and later as a dental assistant.
In the early 1980s, Mazar was part of the downtown club scene in New York City, socializing with artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf.
Career While working at Danceteria, Mazar met Madonna, who hired Mazar to do her makeup for her first music video "Everybody" (1982). She appeared in six of Madonna's music videos: "Papa Don't Preach" (1986), "True Blue" (1986), "Justify My Love" (1990), "Deeper and Deeper" (1992), "Music" (2000) and "Danceteria" (2026). Mazar originated the hair and makeup for the 1988 play Speed-the-Plow.
As a teenager, Mazar was a b-girl in New York City. Her first television appearance was on the pilot for the hip-hop television dance show Graffiti Rock, in 1984. Her first major role was playing the legal secretary Denise Iannello on Civil Wars in the early 1990s. When that series was cancelled, her character was brought over as a recurring role during the 1993 and 1994 seasons of the TV drama L.A. Law.
Mazar has played a number of minor supporting roles in a variety of films, including Sandy, a friend of Henry Hill's mistress in Goodfellas (1990); The Doors (1991); a small role in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992); Bullets Over Broadway (1994); and as Spice (of Sugar and Spice, with Drew Barrymore as Sugar) in Batman Forever (1995).
Mazar played the villain Regina, a modern-day Cruella de Vil, in the family film Beethoven's 2nd (1993). She has appeared in independent films Inside Monkey Zetterland and Nowhere and her short-lived sitcom, Temporarily Yours. She appeared in the Space Monkeys' music video "Sugarcane".
Mazar appeared on a Friends episode in its eighth season ("The One Where Rachel Has a Baby, Part One"). Mazar played Doreen, the Evil Bitch, a crazed pregnant woman who shares a hospital room with Rachel. In the 1999 docudrama film The Insider she played character Lowell Bergman's assistant Debi. From 2000-02 she played Jackie on the television drama That's Life. She provided the voice of Maria Latore in the video games Grand Theft Auto III (2001) and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004). Also in 2004, she made a cameo appearance in the film Collateral in which she played the passenger while arguing with her boyfriend (Bodhi Elfman) while the main protagonist, Max Durocher (Jamie Foxx), is driving them to their destination.
From 2004 to 2011, she had a supporting role on Entourage as press agent Shauna Roberts. She had a recurring role on the sitcom Living with Fran, as Merrill, the cousin of Fran Drescher's character. She did a two-episode stint on the television series Ugly Betty as fraudster Leah Stillman.
Mazar was a contestant on the ninth season of Dancing With the Stars. She was partnered with Maksim Chmerkovskiy and finished in twelfth place, eliminated in the third week (October 6, 2009). In 2012, Mazar played Jessica, a glamorous, leather-clad villainess in Home Alone: The Holiday Heist.
On January 19, 2011, Mazar and her husband Gabriele Corcos began hosting the cooking show Extra Virgin on the Cooking Channel, and released a cookbook, Recipes & Love From Our Tuscan Kitchen, in 2014. Mazar and Corcos appeared on an episode of the ABC talk show The Chew in 2014 to promote their show, Extra Virgin. Their two daughters starred in the series, which depicted their lives and showcased their own recipes. The show was scripted and lasted five seasons. In 2015, Mazar and her husband started another series on the Cooking Channel entitled Extra Virgin Americana where they travel the U.S., road trip style, with their children and family friend searching for great food.
From 2015 to 2021, Mazar starred in Younger with Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff as Maggie Amato. The series met critical acclaim and was renewed for a seventh season in 2019, making it the longest-running original series in TV Land network's history.
Mazar appeared in the second season of The $100,000 Pyramid reboot on ABC on August 6, 2017. In the main game, she helped her contestant get seven clues in 15 seconds causing host Michael Strahan to say, "I think that's the quickest round we've ever had, 15 seconds!"
In 2018 she played Ava Gardner in the Spanish period comedy-drama television series Arde Madrid, telling the story of the period which the American actress spent in Madrid during Francoist Spain.
Between 2020–2021, Mazar and her husband ran a cafe/restaurant called Tuscan Gun in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood of Brooklyn. Mazar and Corcos formerly hosted an internet show focused on Tuscan cuisine, Under The Tuscan Gun.
In 2024, Mazar played Medusa in the Netflix show, KAOS.
Also released in 2024, she appeared in the Australian drama series Ladies in Black, about Goods Department Store, playing Magda.
Personal life Mazar dated artist Kenny Scharf and graffiti artist Kel 139 in the 1980s. She dated actor Paul Reubens for several years beginning in 1993. Reubens later credited Mazar with ending his depression resulting from his 1991 arrest. According to Mazar, their relationship was platonic yet inseparable: "we were best friends, and the truth of the matter is, basically, we had a love affair that was just cerebral."
She married Gabriele Corcos on March 16, 2002, in a ceremony officiated by Ellen Burstyn. They have two daughters. The family formerly lived in Los Angeles and moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2009. They divided their time between Brooklyn and a 15th-century home outside of Florence, Italy, that was given to them as a wedding present by Mazar's in-laws. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mazar and her family relocated to their Florence villa; she has Italian citizenship.Debi Mazar in love with Italy vogue.it
Mazar has a close friendship with pop star Madonna.
Filmography
Film Year Title Role NotesRef. 1990 Goodfellas Sandy 1991 Whiskey Girl Jungle Fever Denise Little Man Tate Gina 1992 In the Soup Suzie Inside Monkey Zetterland Daphne Love Is Like That Delores Singles Brenda Malcolm X Peg Toys Nurse Debbie 1993 So I Married an Axe Murderer Susan Money for Nothing Monica Russo Beethoven's 2nd Regina 1994 Bullets Over Broadway Violet "Vi" 1995 Batman Forever "Spice" Empire Records Jane 1996 Things I Never Told You Diane Girl 6 Girl #39 Trees Lounge Crystal Red Ribbon Blues Darcy Space Truckers Cindy 1997 Meet Wally Sparks Sandy Gallo Nowhere "Kozy" She's So Lovely Georgie The Deli Teresa Casper: A Spirited Beginning Angie Lyons Direct-to-video Trouble on the Corner Ericca Rice 1998 Frogs for Snakes Simone Hush Lisa There's No Fish Food in Heaven Rosie Marry Me or Die -1999 Debbie De Luca 2000 More Dogs Than Bones Mary Held for Ransom Rita Downtown 81 Peppermint Lounge Dancer 2002 Ten Tiny Love Stories "Six" CSA Agent Steena The Groovenians Yalda / Swirly / Cuckoo Bird (voice) Short film 2003 Who Killed the Idea? Mysterious Woman Short film Deception Janet Steiner 2004 Collateral Young Professional Woman Goodnight, Joseph Parker Rita My Tiny Universe Bonnie 2005 Be Cool Marla Edmond Matron Wait Joanne Short film 2006 Lies & Alibis Detective Bryce Red Riding Hood Red's Mother 2008 Susan Tanya 2013 Lovelace Dolly Sharp Return to Babylon Gloria Swanson 2014 She's Funny That Way Vickie The Actor Bag Lady Short film 2015 Entourage Shauna Roberts 2017 The Only Living Boy in New York Anna Wonder Wheel Birthday Party Guest 2021 A Christmas Number One Colleen Porter 2022 Rainbow Party Guest 2023 The Kill Room The Kimono 2025 The Running Man Americano 2026 Confessions II Herself Short film The Housewife TBA The Last Mrs. Parrish Post-production Object Permanence CassandraPost-production
Television