WINGER, Debra 1955(?)–

PERSONAL

Full name, Mary Debra Winger; born May 16, 1955 (some sources cite May 1 or 1953), in Cleveland, OH; daughter of Robert (a meat packer) and Ruth (an office manager; maiden name, Felder) Winger; married Timothy Hutton (an actor, producer, and director), March 16, 1986 (divorced, 1990); married Arliss Howard (an actor and director), November, 1996; children: (first marriage) Emmanuel Noah; (second marriage) Gideon Babe. Education: Attended California State University, Northridge.

Addresses: Agent— Rick Nicita, Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212–1804. Manager— Johnnie Planco, Parseghian & Planco, 23 East 22nd St., 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10010.

Career: Actress. Worked on a collective farm in Israel as a teenager; worked at Magic Mountain Amusement Park, 1973. Appeared in commercials. Military service: Israel Defense Forces, 1972–73.

Awards, Honors: Golden Globe Award nominations, best supporting actress in a motion picture and female new star of the year in a motion picture, and Film Award nomination, best newcomer, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, all 1981, for Urban Cowboy; Academy Award nomination, best actress, and Golden Globe Award nomination, best actress in a motion picture drama, both 1983, for An Officer and a Gentleman; ShoWest Award, female star of the year, National Association of Theatre Owners, 1983; Academy Award nomination, best actress, Golden Globe Award nomination, best performance by an actress in a motion picture drama, and National Society of Film Critics Award, best actress, all 1984, for Terms of Endearment; Academy Award nomination, best actress, and Film Award nomination, best actress, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, both 1994, for Shadowlands; Golden Globe Award nomination, best performance by an actress in a motion picture drama, and Best Actress Award, Tokyo International Film Festival, both 1994, for A Dangerous Woman.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Debbie, Slumber Party '57 (also known as Teenage Slumber Party ), Cannon, 1977.

Jennifer, Thank God It's Friday, Columbia, 1978.

Melanie, French Postcards, Paramount, 1979.

Sissy Davis, Urban Cowboy, Paramount, 1980.

Suzy DeSoto, Cannery Row (also known as John Steinbeck's Cannery Row ), Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer/United Artists, 1982.

Paula Pokrifki, An Officer and a Gentleman, Paramount, 1982.

Once of the voices of E. T., E. T. the Extra–Terrestrial (also known as A Boy's Life, E. T., E. T. and Me, and Night Skies ), Universal, 1982, longer version released as E. T. the Extra–Terrestrial: The 20th Anniversary, 2002.

Emma Greenway Horton, Terms of Endearment, Paramount, 1983.

Betty Parrish, Mike's Murder, Warner Bros., 1984.

Laura Kelly, Legal Eagles, Universal, 1986.

Alexandra "Alex" Barnes, Black Widow, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1987.

(Uncredited) Emmett Humbird, Made in Heaven, Lorimar, 1987.

Katie Phillips/Cathy Weaver, Betrayed, United Artists, 1988.

Angela Crispini, Everybody Wins, Orion, 1990.

Kit Moresby, The Sheltering Sky (also known as Il te nel deserto ), Warner Bros., 1990.

Jane, Leap of Faith, Paramount, 1992.

Vida Foudroyant, Wilder Napalm, TriStar, 1993.

Martha Horgan, A Dangerous Woman (also known as Dangerous Women ), Gramercy, 1993.

Joy Gresham, Shadowlands, Savoy Pictures, 1993.

Guest, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, Warner Bros., 1993.

Ellen Andrews, Forget Paris, Columbia, 1995.

Marilyn Barlow, Big Bad Love, IFC Films, 2002.

Linda Jones, Radio, Columbia, 2003.

Alice Collins, Eulogy, Artisan Entertainment, 2004.

Film Work:

Executive producer, Big Bad Love, IFC Films, 2002.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Sherrie Hensley, Special Olympics (also known as A Special Kind of Love ), CBS, 1978.

Herself, Searching for Debra Winger, Showtime, 2003.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Drusilla Prince/Wonder Girl, "The Feminum Mystique: Parts 1 & 2," The New, Original Wonder Woman (also known as Wonder Woman ), ABC, 1976.

Drusilla Prince/Wonder Girl, "Wonder Woman in Hollywood," The New, Original Wonder Woman (also known as Wonder Woman ), ABC, 1977.

"The Runaway," Szysznyk, CBS, 1977.

James at 16, NBC, 1978.

"Battered Teachers," Police Woman, NBC, 1978.

Host, Saturday Night Live (also known as NBC's Saturday Night, Saturday Night, and SNL ), NBC, 1990.

Guest, Late Night with David Letterman, 1990.

Guest, Late Show with David Letterman, 1993.

Guest, The View, 2002.

Also interviewee in an episode of Inside the Actors Studio.

Television Appearances; Specials:

The Best of Farm Aid: An American Event, HBO, 1986.

The Barbara Walters Special, ABC, 1987.

What Is This Thing Called Love? The Barbara Walters Special, ABC, 1993.

Narrator, In Search of Angels, PBS, 1994.

The Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (also known as The Wizard of Oz in Concert ), TNT, 1995.

In the Wild: Pandas, PBS, 1995.

Narrator, Rumi: Poet of the Heart, PBS, 1998.

Television Appearances; Awards Presentations:

Presenter, The 54th Annual Academy Awards, 1982.

Presenter, The 63rd Annual Academy Awards Presentation, ABC, 1991.

Stage Appearances:

Li'l Bit, How I Learned to Drive, American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA, 1998.

Anna, Ivanov, American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, 1999–2000.

Also appeared in a production of The Exonerated.

RECORDINGS

Albums:

The Boy Who Made Dragonfly, 1992.

The Brothers Karamazov, 1993.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Cahill, M. J., Debra Winger: Hollywood's Wild Child, 1984.

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 3: Actors and Actresses, St. James Press, 1996.

Periodicals:

American Film, July–August, 1988, pp. 20–25.

Esquire, February, 1993, p. 70.

People Weekly, March 18, 2002, p. 132.

Premiere, February, 2002, pp. 54–57, 95.