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Name: |
Debra Winger |
| DOB: |
16, May 1955 |
| Birth Place: |
Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
| Height: |
5' 4" |
| Also Credited: |
Mary Debra Winger |
| Profession: |
Actress |
| Spouse: |
Not Available |
| AT A GLANCE |
Debra Winger is well known for her best acted film "Urban Cowboy". Her roles in Shadowlands, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment all garnered Winger Academy Award nominations as well as praise from critics and others.
She
spent her youth in Israel then she moved to California, where she decided to pursue a serious acting career following a severe accident at a local
pleasure park.
She started her acting carrier after completing college education, then she began
to take acting lessons, which led to local workshop productions. After few
days later she made her feature film debut in "Thank God It's Friday".
Winger went on to co-star with Nick Nolte in Cannery Row, and worked again with her long time friend and mentor James Bridges in Mike's Murder before winning an Oscar nomination for her performance opposite Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman. Her second Oscar nomination came for her role in Terms of Endearment.
After performing on stage she co-starred in "Big Bad Love", which was written and directed by Arliss Howard.
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