Debra Messing went for a Queen-like look as she hosted a glitzy awards ceremony in LA.

Appearing on the red carpet in a tiara, the Will & Grace star was asked if she was styling herself on the British Royal Family.

“You know I’ve never worn a tiara before and now I get it – you Brits really have something! And I feel like everyone should bow to me,” she said.

“And I feel like perhaps I should sleep in this and wear it to the market. There’s something about it that makes you walk a little taller.”

Debra was also donning a glamorous nude-coloured jewelled gown and she revealed she had several outfit changes planned during the event, the 11th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards.

The actress said the importance of costumes in her job was “really kind of magical.”

“I don’t know who I am until I have the clothes on. It’s – literally – it changes the way you walk, the way you breathe, the way you stand, they way you speak”.

She said one of the most memorable outfits she wore as Grace was a “squirting water bra.”

“I mean until I actually had that on and was working with it, it was just an idea, and then they made it happen and then it was like, oh my gosh, this is gonna be remembered forever”.