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Debra Winger is an American actress known for her roles in major films and television productions. She matters because her career has made significant contributions to entertainment and influenced the film industry over several decades.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Debra
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cleveland Heights
- Spouse
- Arliss Howard
- Occupation
- film producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Debrawinger1984.jpg
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- Commons category
- Debra Winger
- date of birth
- 1955-05-16
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Actress
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Mary Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winger won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman (1993).
Winger's other films include Urban Cowboy (1980), Legal Eagles (1986), Black Widow (1987), Betrayed (1988), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Forget Paris (1995), and Rachel Getting Married (2008). In 2012, she made her Broadway debut in the original production of David Mamet's play The Anarchist. Winger starred in the Netflix original television series The Ranch from 2016 to 2020. She received a lifetime achievement award at the Transilvania International Film Festival in 2014.
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