---
name: "Deb Lacusta"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/deb-lacusta"
fi1m_id: "deb-lacusta"
imdb_id: "nm0480354"
tmdb_id: 1216627
wikidata_id: "Q2018704"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "15 March 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:40:26.396523+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Deb Lacusta

## Identity

Deb Lacusta

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/deb-lacusta
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** deb-lacusta
- **IMDb ID:** nm0480354
- **TMDB ID:** 1216627
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2018704
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Lacusta, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2018704, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0480354/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216627

Writer. Born 15 March 1958 in Detroit.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 15 March 1958, Detroit
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_Lacusta, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2018704, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0480354/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216627

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88)

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## Biography

Deb Lacusta is an American television writer and actress. She has written numerous episodes of the animated series *The Simpsons* (1989), often in collaboration with her husband, voice actor Dan Castellaneta.

Lacusta was born on 15 March 1958 in Detroit. With Castellaneta, she co-wrote *The Simpsons* episodes including "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" (2000), "Gump Roast" (2002), "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" (2004), "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore" (2006), "The Fight Before Christmas" (2010), "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" (2011), "Havana Wild Weekend" (2016) and "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" (2018). The pair received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore" in 2007.

She has also contributed to *The Tracey Ullman Show* and written for Simpsons comics, and has appeared as an actress in several television series and films.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, simpsonswiki.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Long Isolation* (2021), Director
- *Forget Paris* (1995), as Nurse
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as Isabella (voice) · Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/deb-lacusta