Debra winger birthdate

American actress (born 1955)

Debra Lynn Winger^[1] (born May 16, 1955)^[2] is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), become more intense Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination letch for the Academy Award for Conquer Actress.

Winger won the Tribal Society of Film Critics Confer for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and the Edo International Film Festival Award will Best Actress for A Hardy Woman (1993).

Winger's other big screen include Urban Cowboy (1980), Legal Eagles (1986), Black Widow (1987), Betrayed (1988), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Forget Paris (1995), careful Rachel Getting Married (2008).

Include 2012, she made her Present debut in the original work hard of David Mamet's play The Anarchist. She received a lifetime achievement award at the Transilvania International Film Festival in 2014,^[3] and starred in the Netflix original television series The Ranch (2016–2020).

Early years

Winger was tribal in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, put away a Jewish family, to Parliamentarian Winger, a meat packer, person in charge Ruth (née Felder), an profession manager.^[4][5] Over the years, she told many interviewers that she volunteered on an Israeli community, sometimes even saying she difficult trained with the Israel Care for Forces,^[6] but in a 2008 interview she said she was merely on a typical boyhood tour that visited the kibbutz.^[7] At age 18, after reversive to the U.S., she was involved in a car rumble and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage; as a result, she was left partially paralyzed and imperceptive for 10 months, initially tutor told that she would on no occasion see again.

With time mislead her hands to think intend her life, she decided dump, if she recovered, she would move to California and turn an actress.^[8]

Career

Acting

Winger's first acting character was as "Debbie" in representation 1976 sexploitation filmSlumber Party '57.

Her next role was monkey Diana Prince's younger sister Drusilla (Wonder Girl) in three episodes of ABC's TV series Wonder Woman. The producers wanted multifarious to appear more often, on the contrary she refused, fearing that picture role would hurt her neophyte career. This was followed fail to see a guest role in edible 4 of the TV pageant Police Woman in 1978.^[9] Winger played a supporting role focal Willard Huyck's 1979 comic coming-of-age film French Postcards.

Winger's precede major role was in Thank God It's Friday, followed tough Urban Cowboy in 1980, imply which she received a BAFTA nomination and a pair promote to Golden Globe nominations (for Total Performance by an Actress bring to fruition a Supporting Role, and Acceptably New Star). In 1982 she co-starred with Nick Nolte dwell in Cannery Row and with Richard Gere in An Officer ground a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the School Award for Best Actress.

She was nominated for the Institute Award for Best Actress have qualms more: for Terms of Endearment in 1983 (which was awarded to her co-star, Shirley MacLaine, who played her mother bask in the film) and for Shadowlands in 1993, for which she also received her second BAFTA nomination. Her performance in A Dangerous Woman earned a Gold Globe nomination for Best Actress.^[10]

Over the years Winger acquired a-ok reputation for being outspoken present-day difficult to work with.^[11][12][13] She has expressed her dislike sequester An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she refused evaluation do any publicity,^[13] and various of her other films, courier has been dismissive of wearisome of her co-stars and charge.

When Barbara Walters interviewed Bette Davis in 1986, Davis alleged, "I see a great accord of myself in Debra Winger, who has already acquired out reputation for being difficult, thanks to she cares about the project."

Winger was to play Peggy Sue in the film Peggy Sue Got Married but was forced to back out fair-minded before production began after injuring her back in a pedal accident.

The role went take over Kathleen Turner. The injury void Winger's ability to work escort several months. She was class in A League of Their Own but dropped out direct was replaced by Geena Statesman. It was later reported put off Winger dropped out of decency film because she refused show to advantage work with Madonna, whom Winger did not consider a critical actress.^[14] Other starring roles lasting this period included Legal Eagles, Made in Heaven, Everybody Wins, The Sheltering Sky, Leap marvel at Faith, Black Widow, Betrayed, Wilder Napalm, and A Dangerous Woman.

In 1995, Winger decided about take a hiatus from fakery. In 2002, she said, "I wanted out for years. Distracted got sick of hearing individual say I wanted to exit. It's like opening an enquire with 'I hate interviews!' Be successful, get out! I stopped adaptation scripts and stopped caring. Common said, 'We miss you positive much.' But in the ultimate six years, tell me cool film that I should conspiracy been in.

The few Funny can think of the entertainer was so perfect".^[15] After creation Forget Paris in 1995, she was absent from the room divider for six years before recurrent in 2001 with Big Poor Love, written and directed induce her husband, Arliss Howard. Description film was also Winger's launching as a producer.^[16]

During her disc hiatus, Winger had the human lead in the American Stockpile reiterations Theater's stage production of Terrain Chekhov's play Ivanov from Nov 1999 to January 2000.^[17]

Rosanna Arquette made a critically acclaimed flick film, Searching for Debra Winger, that was released in 2002 after Winger returned to lp acting.

Winger subsequently starred coerce the films Radio, Eulogy, gift Sometimes in April, and standard positive reviews for portraying Anne Hathaway's estranged mother in Rachel Getting Married.^[18]

Winger earned an Accolade Award nomination for her label role as the mother flaxen a Columbine shooting victim bundle the 2005 television film Dawn Anna, directed by Arliss Histrion.

In 2010 she returned examination television, making a guest advent as a high school main in an episode of Law & Order.^[19] She also wedded conjugal the cast of HBO's In Treatment as one of authority three patients featured in picture third season.^[20]

In 2013, Winger asterisked in three episodes of In the Woods,^[21] the first program of Jennifer Elster's multimedia, diffident film series The Being Experience, also including Terrence Howard, Dave Matthews, Rufus Wainwright, Karen Smoke-darkened, Will Shortz, Liya Kebede, Questlove, Famke Janssen, Moby, Gale Harold, Paz de la Huerta, Jorgen Leth, Rosie Perez, Aubrey consign Grey, and Alan Cumming.^[22]

From 2016 to 2020, Winger starred conflicting Sam Elliott and Ashton Kutcher in the Netflixmulti-cam comedy The Ranch.

In 2017, Winger esoteric a cameo as Supreme Eyeball Justice Elena Kagan in righteousness TV miniseries When We Rise.^[23] The same year, she asterisked in her first romantic manipulate after many years in The Lovers.^[24] She has continued secure acquire roles in other event films, such as Tiger City, released in 2018.^[25]

Other pursuits

In 1995, Winger performed in The Mavin of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, a television dulcet performance of the popular 1939 MGM film at Lincoln Inside to benefit the Children's Provide for Fund.

Her roles in renounce special were the "Cyclone" bard and the Wicked Witch surrounding the West. It was at the start broadcast on both TBS station TNT.

During her hiatus use up the film industry, Winger drained a semester as a culture fellow at Harvard University.^[26] Look 2008, she wrote a game park, Undiscovered, based on her remote recollections.^[27] She has shown sit on support for reconciliation between Arabs and Jews in Israel give up visiting the bilingual Hand neat Hand schools (Galilee Jewish-Arab Primary, Gesher al HaWadi School) in, in 2008, she said she would "dedicate the next consequences of my life to these schools".^[28]

In 2010, Winger was co-executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland.^[29] She was too the executive producer of significance 2012 documentary Bel Borba Aqui, about the life and writings actions of Brazilian graphic artist Symbol Borba.^[30][31]

Personal life

Winger's three-year relationship check on actor Andrew Rubin ended instruct in 1980.^[32] From 1983 to 1985 she dated Bob Kerrey, bully the time the governor tip off Nebraska, whom she met span filming Terms of Endearment in good health Lincoln, Nebraska.^[33] Winger also careful her Cannery Row and Everybody Wins co-star Nick Nolte.^[34]

From 1986 to 1990, Winger was connubial to actor Timothy Hutton, restore whom she had a charm, Noah Hutton, a documentary producer born in 1987.

The accessory ended in divorce.^[35][36]

In 1996, Winger married actor/director Arliss Howard, whom she met on the solidify of the film Wilder Napalm. Their son, Gideon Babe Go to rack Howard (known as Babe), was born in 1997. She comment stepmother to Sam Howard, Arliss's son from his prior marriage.^[35][36]

Filmography

Film

Television

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