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Profile of Debra Winger
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16th May 1955 |
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Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress. Born Mary Debra Winger in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to a Jewish family, she spent several years in Israel, and served in the Israeli Armed Forces. After returning to the United States, she was involved in an automobile accident and suffered a cerebral haemorrhage as a result. She was left partially paralyzed and blind for ten months, although she was initially told that she would never see again. With time on her hands to think about her life, she decided that, if she recovered, she would move to California and become an actress.
Her first acting role was as Princess Diana's younger sister Drusilla (Wonder Girl) in the Wonder Woman television series. She got her first starring role in Urban Cowboy in 1980, opposite John Travolta. In 1982 she starred opposite Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment in 1984 and Best Actress for Shadowlands in 1993. She has also won an Emmy nomination for her performance in Dawn Anna in 2005.
Other films include Made in Heaven, Everybody Wins, The Sheltering Sky, Leap of Faith, Black Widow, Wilder Napalm and A Dangerous Woman.
Also the voice of ET.
She has been married to actors Timothy Hutton and Arliss Howard. She dated then-Gov. Bob Kerrey while filming Terms of Endearment; eyebrows were raised when she was a frequent overnight guest at the Nebraska governor's mansion. (When asked, Kerrey, who lost much of a leg in Vietnam, commented: "What can I say? She swept me off my foot.")
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