Debra Winger

At 69 years old, Debra Winger has this physical status:

Debra Lynn Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress.

She appeared in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for Best Actress.

She received the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endeavor (1993) and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman (1993).

Urban Cowboy (1980), Legal Eagles (1986), Black Widow (1987), Betrayed (1988), Forget Paris (1995), and Rachel Getting Married (2008).

In 2012, she made her Broadway debut in The Anarchist, the David Mamet play.

She received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Transilvania International Film Festival in 2014. She now appears in the Netflix original television series The Ranch as a series regular.

Early years

Winger was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, into an Orthodox Jewish family, Robert Winger, a meat packer, and Ruth (née Felder), an office manager. She told many interviewers that she participated on an Israeli kibbutz, occasionally mentioning that she had served with the Israel Defense Forces, but that she was simply on a typical youth tour visiting the kibbutz in 2008. She was involved in a car accident and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, and as a result, she was partially paralyzed and blind for ten months, and she was told she would never see again at age 18. With time on her hands to think about her personal life, she decided that if she recovered, she'd go to California and become an actress.

Personal life

In 1980, Winger's three-year relationship with actor Andrew Rubin came to an end. She dated Bob Kerrey, who was governor of Nebraska at the time, whom she encountered when filming Terms of Endearment in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nick Nolte, the Cannery Row and Everybody Wins co-star, has also dated her.

Winger was married to actor Timothy Hutton from 1986 to 1990, with whom she had a son, Noah Hutton, a documentary filmmaker born in 1987. The union came to an end in divorce.

Arliss Howard, a director who met on the set of the film Wilder Napalm, married her in 1996. Gideon Babe Ruth Howard (known as Babe) Howard Howard, the boy's uncle, was born in 1997. Sam Howard, Arliss's son from his previous marriage, is her stepmother.

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Career

In the 1976 slumber Party '57, Winger's first acting role was as "Debbie" in the sexploitation film Slumber Party. In three episodes of ABC's television series Wonder Woman, Diana Prince's younger sister Drusilla (Wonder Girl). The producers wanted her to appear more often, but she refused, afraid that this would jeopardize her fledgling career. In 1978, a guest appearance was followed by a guest appearance in Season 4 of the television drama Police Women. In Willard Huyck's 1979 come-of-age film French Postcards, Winger played a supporting role.

Winger's first big role was in Thank You It's Friday, followed by Urban Cowboy in 1980, for which she received a BAFTA nomination and two Golden Globe awards (for Best Performance by an Actress and Best New Star). She appeared in Cannery Row and with Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman in 1982, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress twice more, including for Terms of Endearance (1983, which was also given to her co-star Shirley MacLaine, who starred her mother in the film) and Shadowlands (1993, for which she received her second BAFTA nomination). A Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress went to A Dangerous Woman.

Winger earned a reputation for being outspoken and difficult to work with over the years. She has voiced her dissatisfaction with An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she refused to do any publicity, and several of her other films, and has dismissed several of her co-stars and directors. "I see a great deal of myself in Debra Winger," Barbara Walters said when Barbara Walters interviewed Bette Davis in 1986.

Peggy Sue Got Married was supposed to be starring Peggy Sue in the film Peggy Sue Got Married, but she was forced to pull her back after crashing her back in a bicycle accident. Kathleen Turner took over the role. Winger's ability to work for many months was hindered by the injury. She was cast in A League of Their Own, but Geena Davis came to replace her as a result. Winger dropped out of the film because she refused to work with Madonna, whom Winger did not consider as a serious actress. During this period, Legal Eagles, Made in Heaven, Everybody Wins, The Sheltering Sky, Leap of Faith, Black Widow, Betrayed, Wilder Napalm, and A Dangerous Woman were among the main actors.

In 1995, Winger took a break from acting. "I wanted out for years," she said in 2002. I got sick of hearing myself say I wanted to leave. It's like starting a conversation with the 'I hate interviews!'

Well, get out!

I stopped reading scripts and instead started caring. 'We miss you so much,' people remarked.' But tell me a film that I shouldn't have seen in the last six years. The actress was so flawless, one of the few I can recall. She was off the screen for six years before returning in 2001 with Big Bad Love, written and directed by her husband Arliss Howard, after making Forget Paris in 1995. It was also Winger's first appearance as a producer.

Winger was the female lead in Anton Chekhov's stage production of Ivanov from November 1999 to January 2000 during her film hiatus.

Searching for Debra Winger, Rosanna Arquette's first documentary film since Winger returned to film acting in 2002. In April, Winger appeared in the films Radio, Eulogy, and Occasionally, and she received praise for portraying Anne Hathaway's estranged mother in Rachel Getting Married.

In the 2005 television film Dawn Anna, directed by Arliss Howard, Winger received an Emmy Award for her role as the mother of a Columbine shooting survivor. In 2010, she returned to television, making a guest appearance as a high school principal in an episode of Law & Order. As one of the three patients on HBO's In Treatment, she also appeared as one of the three patients in the third season.

In 2013, Winger appeared in three episodes of In the Woods, Jennifer Elster's first installment of Jennifer Elster's multimedia, experimental film series The Being Experience, as well as Terrence Howard, Dave Matthews, Rufus Wainwright, Liya Kebede, Questlove, Famke Janssen, Moby, Rosie Perez, Aubrey de Grey, and Alan Cumming.

In the Netflix multi-cam comedy The Ranch, Winger starred opposite Sam Elliott and Ashton Kutcher from 2016 to 2020.

In 2017, Winger appeared in The Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in the TV miniseries When We Rise. She appeared in her first romantic role after many years in The Lovers the same year. She has continued to work in other film franchises, such as Tiger City, which was released in 2018.

In 1995, Winger appeared in The Wizard of Oz, a television musical version of the iconic 1939 MGM film, at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The narrator and the Wicked Witch of the West were among the "Cyclone" narrator and the Wicked Witch of the West's featured characters in this special. Both TBS and TNT had it on television at the time.

Winger spent a semester at Harvard University as a teaching fellow during her film career. Undiscovered, a book based on her personal recollections, was published in 2008. She has expressed her support for Israel's reconciliation between Arabs and Jews by visiting the bilingual Hand in Hand schools (Galilee Jewish-Arab School, Gesher al HaWadi School), where she said she will "dedicate the next few years of my life to these schools" in 2008.

Winger, president of the 2009 Zurich Film Festival, joined many others in condemning Swiss authorities for "philistine collusion" in detaining a 13-year-old girl as he was en route to attend the Zurich festival.

Winger, a co-executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland, released in 2010. Bel Borba Aqui, a Brazilian graphic artist, was also the executive producer of the 2012 documentary Bel Borba Aqui about Bel Borba Aqui's life and works.

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