Debra Lynn Winger was born on May 16,1955 and is an American actress.
24 Facts About Debra Winger
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Debra Winger starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Shadowlands, each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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Debra Winger received a lifetime achievement award at the Transilvania International Film Festival in 2014, and starred in the Netflix original television series The Ranch.
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Debra Winger was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, into an Orthodox Jewish family, to Robert Debra Winger, a meat packer, and Ruth, an office manager.
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Debra Winger played a supporting role in Willard Huyck's 1979 comic coming-of-age film French Postcards.
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Debra Winger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress twice more: for Terms of Endearment in 1983 and for Shadowlands in 1993, for which she received her second BAFTA nomination.
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Debra Winger has expressed her dislike of An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she refused to do any publicity, and several of her other films, and has been dismissive of some of her co-stars and directors.
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Debra Winger was to play Peggy Sue in the film Peggy Sue Got Married but was forced to back out just before production began after injuring her back in a bicycle accident.
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Debra Winger was cast in A League of Their Own but dropped out and was replaced by Geena Davis.
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In 1995 Debra Winger decided to take a hiatus from acting.
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Rosanna Arquette made a critically acclaimed documentary film, Searching for Debra Winger, that was released in 2002 after Winger returned to film acting.
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Debra Winger earned an Emmy Award nomination for her title role as the mother of a Columbine shooting victim in the 2005 television film Dawn Anna, directed by Arliss Howard.
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Debra Winger joined the cast of HBO's In Treatment as one of the three patients featured in the third season.
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In 2013 Debra Winger starred in three episodes of In the Woods, the first installment of Jennifer Elster's multimedia, experimental film series The Being Experience, including Terrence Howard, Dave Matthews, Rufus Wainwright, Karen Black, Will Shortz, Liya Kebede, Questlove, Famke Janssen, Moby, Gale Harold, Paz de la Huerta, Jorgen Leth, Rosie Perez, Aubrey de Grey, and Alan Cumming.
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From 2016 to 2020, Debra Winger starred opposite Sam Elliott and Ashton Kutcher in the Netflix multi-cam comedy The Ranch.
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In 2017, Debra Winger had a cameo as Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in the TV miniseries When We Rise.
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Debra Winger has continued to acquire roles in other feature films, such as Tiger City, released in 2018.
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In 1995, Debra Winger performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, a television musical performance of the popular 1939 MGM film at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund.
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Debra Winger has shown her support for reconciliation between Arabs and Jews in Israel by visiting the bilingual Hand in Hand schools where, in 2008, she said she would "dedicate the next bit of my life to these schools".
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In 2010, Debra Winger was co-executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland.
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Debra Winger was the executive producer of the 2012 documentary Bel Borba Aqui, about the life and works of Brazilian graphic artist Bel Borba.
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Debra Winger has dated her Cannery Row and Everybody Wins co-star Nick Nolte.
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From 1986 to 1990, Debra Winger was married to actor Timothy Hutton, with whom she had a son, Noah Hutton, a documentary filmmaker born in 1987.
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Debra Winger is stepmother to Sam Howard, Arliss's son from his prior marriage.