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Winger was born Mary Debra Winger in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, the daughter of Ruth (née Felder), an office manager, and Robert Winger, a meat packer.[1] She was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family.[2] In the early 1970s, she spent several months at Beit Zera, a kibbutz in Israel.[3][4] She has stated publicly and with amusement that the Internet has a growing "snowball" of claims that she had been part of a kibbutz in Israel, whereas she says she was merely on a typical Israeli youth program that visited the kibbutz.[5] After returning to the United States, she was involved in an automobile accident and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage as a result. She was left partially paralyzed and blind for ten months, although she was initially told that she would never see again. With time on her hands to think about her life, she decided that, if she recovered, she would move to California and become an actress.[6]

Career

Winger's first acting role was as "Debbie" in the 1976 sexploitation film Slumber Party '57[citation needed]. Her next role was as Diana Prince's younger sister Drusilla (Wonder Girl) in the Wonder Woman television series. Winger got her first starring role in Urban Cowboy in 1980, opposite John Travolta, for which she received a BAFTA award nomination. In 1982, she co-starred with Nick Nolte in Cannery Row and opposite Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Winger's acting work has received critical acclaim. Winger was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress twice more: for Terms of Endearment in 1983, and for Shadowlands 1993, for which she also received her second BAFTA award nomination. Winger was originally cast in the lead role in A League of their Own but dropped out and was replaced by Geena Davis.

In 1995, Winger turned 40 and began a hiatus from the film industry, during which she spent a semester as a teaching fellow at Harvard University. In 2001, a critically acclaimed documentary film titled Searching for Debra Winger was made by Rosanna Arquette and released in 2002 after Winger returned to performing. Other films include Legal Eagles, Made in Heaven, Everybody Wins, The Sheltering Sky, Leap of Faith, Black Widow, Betrayed, Wilder Napalm, A Dangerous Woman and Sometimes in April. She earned an Emmy Award nomination for her title role in the television film Dawn Anna in 2005, directed by her second husband, Arliss Howard.

In 1995, Winger performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a musical performance of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund. The performance was originally broadcast on Turner Network Television (TNT), and issued on CD and video in 1996.

In 2008, Winger wrote a book based on her personal recollections titled "Undiscovered."[7]

Personal life

From 1986 to 1990, she was married to actor Timothy Hutton and is currently married (since 1996) to actor Arliss Howard, and has a son from each marriage: Noah Hutton (born in 1987) and Babe Howard (born in 1997). She dated Bob Kerrey, who was Governor of Nebraska at the time, while filming Terms of Endearment in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Trivia

Daughter of a meat-packer

Born at 5:15pm-EDT

Turned down the Glenn Close role in Fatal Attraction (1987).

Graduated from Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High School, Northridge, California, in 1970.

Graduated from James Monroe High School, Sepulveda, California, in 1973.

Had a romance with then-Governor of Nebraska Bob Kerrey during the filming of Terms of Endearment (1983).

Sister-in-law of actor/writer Jim Howard.

Mother of Noah Hutton with Timothy Hutton

Measurements: 34B-23-34 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Has a second son named Babe (with Arliss Howard).

James L. Brooks wrote Broadcast News (1987) especially for her, but she turned it down because she was pregnant with her son Noah Hutton, and the role went to Holly Hunter, who was nominated for an Oscar for it.

At first, she was excited about winning the role of "Wonder Girl" on the TV series "Wonder Woman" (1976) but quickly became disillusioned and spent all her salary from the show to hire an attorney to get her out of her contract.

Didn't like working with Lynda Carter on "Wonder Woman" (1976) but Lynda said that they didn't have any problems and was like a big sister to her.

She was given the choice of the two roles in Black Widow (1987); she chose the role of the FBI agent, because she didn't understand the motivation as to why the Black Widow kills, so the title role went to Theresa Russell.

She became notorious for turning down worthy roles in quality films, such as Kathleen Turner's role in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Susan Sarandon's role in Bull Durham (1988), Michelle Pfeiffer's role in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Jessica Lange's role in Music Box (1989) and Geena Davis' role in A League of Their Own (1992).

In 1995 she appeared in London, Washington, and New York with both the London Symphony and the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, performing his composition based on the life of Anne Frank.

Her notorious off-camera clashes with equally mercurial Shirley MacLaine brought out the best in both actresses in the complexity of their on-camera contentious mother/daughter relationship during the making of their Oscar- winning film Terms of Endearment (1983). When MacLaine nabbed the Best Actress Oscar instead of fellow nominee Winger in 1984 and famously shouted, "I deserve this!," she managed to address her co-star as "dear Debra" despite the fact there was no love lost between them.

Filmography

... aka Quelques jours en avril (France)

... aka The Wizard of Oz in Concert (USA: short title)

... aka Tè nel deserto, Il (Italy)

... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title) ... aka SNL (USA: informal title) ... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title) ... aka Saturday Night (USA: second season title) ... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title) ... aka The Best of Saturday Night Live (USA: rerun title) - Debra Winger/Eric Clapton (1990) TV episode .... Host

... aka Bullseye (Australia)

... aka John Steinbeck's Cannery Row

... aka Wer geht denn noch zur Uni? (West Germany)

- Battered Teachers (1978) TV episode .... Phyllis Baxter

... aka A Special Kind of Love

- Episode dated 28 December 1977 (1977) TV episode .... Jenny

... aka The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (USA: new title) ... aka The New Original Wonder Woman (USA: first episodes title) - Wonder Woman in Hollywood (1977) TV episode .... Drusilla / Wonder Girl - The Feminum Mystique: Part 2 (1976) TV episode .... Drusilla / Wonder Girl - The Feminum Mystique: Part 1 (1976) TV episode .... Drusilla / Wonder Girl