She appeared in five of Madonna's music videos – ' Papa Don't Preach', ' True Blue' (both 1986), ' Justify My Love' (1990), ' Deeper and Deeper' (1992) and ' Music' (2000). Her first television appearance was on the pilot for a hip hop television dance show, Graffiti Rock in 1984. Mazar began her career as a hip hop b-girl in New York City. Mazar also originated the hair and makeup for the play Speed-the-Plow. While working at Danceteria, Mazar met Madonna, who hired Mazar to do her makeup for the music video for ' Everybody'. Mazar worked various odd jobs, including selling jewelry at Fiorucci with Linda Ramone and Joey Arias, later as a dental assistant, and at a nightclub. As a teenager, she relocated to Long Island, where she lived with her godparents. Mazar's parents annulled their marriage shortly after she was born, and she spent her early life in the country in upstate New York with her mother. She had no knowledge of her father's ancestry until her twenties as he practiced Catholicism. Her father was born in German-occupied Latvia to a Jewish family. Mazar was born in Queens, New York City, the daughter of Nancy and Harry Mazar (Harija Fogelmanis ). Mazar has had a long term friendship with Madonna. She also starred as Maggie Amato on TV Land's longest running original series, Younger, and alongside her husband Gabriele Corcos in the Cooking Channel series Extra Virgin. She portrayed press agent Shauna Roberts on the HBO series Entourage. She began her career with supporting roles in Goodfellas (1990), Little Man Tate (1991) and Singles (1992), followed by lead roles on the legal drama series Civil Wars and L.A.

Deborah Anne Mazar Corcos ( / ˈ m eɪ z ɑːr/ born August 13, 1964) is an American actress and television personality who plays sharp-tongued women.

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