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Debra Winger
Mary Debra Winger 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 D…
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entertainment · American actress (born 1955) · actor · television actor · film actor · film producer · also Debra Winger, Winger
Born 16 May 1955 · Q229009
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2017· 1 entry
Winger had a cameo as Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in the TV miniseries When We Rise
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2013· 1 entry
Winger starred in three episodes of In the Woods, the first installment of Jennifer Elster's multimedia, experimental film series The Being Experience, also including Terrence Howard, Dave Matthews, Rufus Wainwright, Kar
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2012· 1 entry
Winger made her Broadway debut in the original production of David Mamet's play The Anarchist
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2010· 2 entries
Winger was co-executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland
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Winger returned to television, making a guest appearance as a high school principal in an episode of Law & Order
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2008· 2 entries
Said she would "dedicate the next bit of my life to these schools"
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Wrote a book, Undiscovered, based on her personal recollections
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2002· 1 entry
After Winger returned to film acting
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1996· 1 entry
Winger married actor/director Arliss Howard, whom she met on the set of the film Wilder Napalm
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1995· 3 entries
Winger performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, a television musical performance of the popular 1939 MGM film at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund
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Winger decided to take a hiatus from acting
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Winger was absent from the screen for six years before returning in 2001 with Big Bad Love, written and directed by her husband, Arliss Howard
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1986· 1 entry
Davis said, "I see a great deal of myself in Debra Winger, who has already acquired a reputation for being difficult, because she cares about the project
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1983· 1 entry
(which was awarded to her co-star, Shirley MacLaine, who played her mother in the film), and for Shadowlands in 1993, for which she also received her second BAFTA nomination
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1982· 1 entry
Winger co-starred with Nick Nolte in Cannery Row and with Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress
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1978· 1 entry
Followed by Urban Cowboy two years later, for which she received a BAFTA nomination and a pair of Golden Globe nominations (for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, and Best New Star)
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1955· 2 entries
Born 1955-05-16.
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In Cleveland Heights, Ohio, into a Jewish family, to Robert Winger, a meat packer, and Ruth (née Felder), an office manager
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