The quintessential downtown girl, Debi Mazar was born in Queens and raised on Manhattan's Lower East Side. She launched her showbiz career in the early 1980s, working as a hip-hop dancer and makeup artist, and becoming friends with a little-known club singer called Madonna. From there it was on to Hollywood, where she found herself in demand as a character actress for feature films (GoodFellas, The Doors, Batman Forever) and TV (L.A. Law, Friends). Best known these days for her supporting role o