Debra Winger was born May 16, 1955, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Prior to acting, she spent three months serving in the Israeli Army. A 1977 debut in the teen sex comedy Slumber Party '57 and her regular role on TV's "Wonder Woman" garnered no attention, but riding a mechanical bull in her breakthrough film Urban Cowboy (1980) certainly did.Winger's natural style was most appealing in An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, earning her back-to-back Oscar nominations. Her third nomination came as C.S. Lewis's cancer-stricken American wife in Shadowlands (1993).
Winger's other roles, both comic and dramatic, include Cannery Row, Legal Eagles, The Sheltering Sky and Forget Paris. She took a break from studio films in the late 1990s, returning in 2003 for Radio. She also provided some of the vocals for the title character in E.T.: The Extraterrestrial.
AddTerms of EndearmentJames L. Brooks directs this Academy Award-winning drama that follows widowed Aurora (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter, Emma (Debra Winger), through the years as they support each other through relationships with various men -- and deal with heartbreaking tragedy. This warm, offbeat adaptation of... Read More
AddAn Officer and a GentlemanDreams of being a Navy pilot prompt Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) to enroll in officer training school, where he runs afoul of a drill instructor (Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr.) who senses the cadet's loner instinct and aims to school him on the importance of teamwork -- or break him in the process. In... Read More
AddSometimes in AprilDebra Winger co-stars in this heart-wrenching HBO drama that focuses on the horrifying 1994 Rwandan massacre in which Hutu nationalists systematically slaughtered nearly a million of their Tutsi countrymen. At the center of the story are two Hutu brothers torn apart by the conflict: a reluctant... Read More
AddUrban CowboyJohn Travolta trades in his polyester disco duds for a cowboy hat in this love story about Bud, a working stud whose whirlwind marriage to Sissy (Debra Winger) breaks up over fears of infidelity. Their relationship turmoil plays out inside a huge honky-tonk hangout called Gilley's. Kitschy and fun,... Read More
AddForget ParisAs Mickey's (Billy Crystal) and Ellen's (Debra Winger) friends wait in a restaurant for the couple to arrive, the story of their relationship unfolds in a series of flashbacks. From their unusual meeting in France -- Mickey's traveling to bury his father, Ellen's an airline employee -- to their... Read More
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