Debra Winger was born May 16, 1955, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Prior to acting, she spent three months serving in the Israeli Army. A 1977 debut in the teen sex comedy Slumber Party '57 and her regular role on TV's "Wonder Woman" garnered no attention, but riding a mechanical bull in her breakthrough film Urban Cowboy (1980) certainly did.Winger's natural style was most appealing in An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment, earning her back-to-back Oscar nominations. Her third nomination came as C.S. Lewis's cancer-stricken American wife in Shadowlands (1993).
Winger's other roles, both comic and dramatic, include Cannery Row, Legal Eagles, The Sheltering Sky and Forget Paris. She took a break from studio films in the late 1990s, returning in 2003 for Radio. She also provided some of the vocals for the title character in E.T.: The Extraterrestrial.
Terms of EndearmentJames L. Brooks directs this Academy Award-winning drama that follows widowed Aurora (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter, Emma (Debra Winger), through the years as they support each other through relationships with various men -- and deal with heartbreaking tragedy. This warm, offbeat adaptation of... Read More
An Officer and a GentlemanDreams of being a Navy pilot prompt Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) to enroll in officer training school, where he runs afoul of a drill instructor (Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr.) who senses the cadet's loner instinct and aims to school him on the importance of teamwork -- or break him in the process. In... Read More
The Sheltering SkyDebra Winger and John Malkovich are Kit and Port Moresby, two American artists traveling through postwar Africa in this adaptation of Paul Bowles's novel. Having drifted apart, the couple seek to escape their alienation by exploring the unfamiliar -- but find much more than they bargained for.... Read More
Sometimes in AprilDebra Winger co-stars in this heart-wrenching HBO drama that focuses on the horrifying 1994 Rwandan massacre in which Hutu nationalists systematically slaughtered nearly a million of their Tutsi countrymen. At the center of the story are two Hutu brothers torn apart by the conflict: a reluctant... Read More
Urban CowboyJohn Travolta trades in his polyester disco duds for a cowboy hat in this turbulent love story about Bud, a working stud whose whirlwind marriage to Sissy (Debra Winger) breaks up over jealousy and fears of infidelity. Their relationship turmoil plays out inside a huge honky-tonk hangout called... Read More
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Sometimes in April (2005) | NR | |
Dawn Anna (2005) | NR | |
Eulogy (2004) | R | |
Radio (2003) | PG | |
NR | ||
Searching for Debra Winger (2002) | R | |
Big Bad Love (2002) | R | |
Forget Paris (1995) | PG-13 | |
Shadowlands (1993) | PG | |
Wilder Napalm (1993) | PG-13 | |
A Dangerous Woman (1993) | R | |
Leap of Faith (1992) | PG-13 | |
Everybody Wins (1990) | R | |
The Sheltering Sky (1990) | R | |
Betrayed (1988) | R | |
Black Widow (1987) | R | |
Legal Eagles (1986) | PG | |
Terms of Endearment (1983) | PG | |
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982) | R | |
PG | ||
Cannery Row (1982) | PG | |
Urban Cowboy (1980) | PG | |
French Postcards (1979) | PG | |
Thank God It's Friday (1978) | PG | |
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Wonder Woman (1975) | NR | |
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