From 1999 to 2006, she played Grace Adler's theatrical mother, Bobbi Adler, on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, which earned Reynolds her only Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2000.
In the 11th season, Grace discovers that she is pregnant, the result of a one-night stand while on vacation, having hooked up with Leo on an airplane bathroom when she saw him while Will and Grace were flying to London. She decides to raise the child with Will, who is also having a child via surrogate.
In the series finale (May 2006), however, Leo tells a heavily pregnant Grace that he loves her. They subsequently raise their daughter, Lila, together.
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Was Grace really pregnant on Will and Grace?
Messing got pregnant during Will & Grace's sixth season in 2003. Though the show tried to hide her baby bump with towels and bags, the New York native skipped the final four episodes at 8-months pregnant. She welcomed son Roman with Daniel Zelman in 2004.
Grace goes with him to Cambodia but returns soon after she realizes her marriage is in trouble. During Karen and Lyle's wedding, Leo returns to New York and admits to having a one-night stand with another doctor while in Cambodia. Grace tries to forgive him but they divorce soon after and she moves back in with Will.
Grace died, but she also didn't deliver her child. But Grace left behind her Na'vi avatar, which was kept in stasis by Neytiri, Jake Sully, and her other scientist friends, as per media reports. Grace's avatar gives birth to Kiri, and Jake adopts her. Jake describes Juri's conception as a total mystery.
Will feels betrayed, and stops speaking to her. Two years later, Grace moves with Leo to Rome and lives there for a year. They then move back to New York City, where they raise their daughter, Laila. Will and Vince D'Angelo (Bobby Cannavale) have since reconciled, and are raising a son, Ben.
After seeing each other over a few months, Grace and Leo spontaneously get married while strolling down Central Park. They later find out that the wedding was invalid and soon get married officially in a synagogue.
In a new interview, perhaps her most forthcoming yet, the 82-year-old speculates why her marriages failed. “My three husbands all left me for another woman and obviously I wasn't a very sexual lady,” Reynolds tells The Express. “My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing—that I was not a very passionate woman.”
She was a multi-millionaire thanks to her marriage to Stanley Walker (an unseen character), until it was discovered that all of his money was loaned after their divorce in the series finale.
Megan Mullally hurt her ankle while dancing at home, so Karen's part had to be re-written to accommodate her inability to walk without crutches. Jack and Grace have a lot of interaction in this episode.
Leo. Given the trajectory of this last season was the same as the last season of the original run, it's almost guaranteed Leo is the father. In the original series, Grace and Leo join the mile high club, which results in her first pregnancy story.
The original series finale, which aired in 2006, ended with a rift between Will and Grace, who didn't rekindle their friendship until 20 years later when their grown kids meet at college.
In the episode, Karen started a new chapter with an old flame, Jack saw his career dreams come true, and Will and Grace packed up their New York City apartment to move to their new house in the suburbs, where they plan on raising their two babies together.
Riley leaves. Grace assures Morgan that Athena will unite everyone. Grace goes into labor. Morgan delivers the baby, but much to their devastation, she is stillborn.
In that moment of Grace's death she said she was with the deity, we can assume that at that point, Eywa planted her own seed into the living avatar of Grace, thus conceiving Kiri.
Grace reluctantly decides to tell Leo that she's pregnant with his child. Menawhile, a blissful Will settles in with James... until he discovers something unexpected about him. Grace reluctantly decides to tell Leo that she's pregnant with his child.
