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- Debra's reputation as a great talent, as well as her reputation as a difficult actress grew with her next film, Terms of Endearment (1983), which not only earned her a second Oscar nomination as Best Actress but also won the Best Picture as well. She also earned the Best Actress Award from the National Society of Film Critics.
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Oct 21, 2022 · Debra Winger takes her work seriously and has been recognized for her efforts. A three-time Academy Award nominee in the 1980s, she became one of Hollywood's shining stars.
Jun 21, 2018 · Oh, Debra Winger. There probably wasn't a more reliable and familiar actress in the '80s. But since then, she's more or less disappeared from the film industry.
- She Became An Actress After A Truck Accident Temporarily Blinded Her
- She Was The Original Voice of E.T.
- She Hated Working with Shirley Maclaine on Terms of Endearment
- Michael Douglas Claims Winger Bit Him at An Audition Gone Wrong
- She Rejected The Female Lead in Fatal Attraction
- She “Slugged Tequila” to Prep For Her Role in Urban Cowboy
- She called Officer and A Gentleman Co-Star Richard Gere A “Brick Wall”
- She Turned Down The Role of Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of The Lost Ark
- She Went on A Six-Year Acting Hiatus After Falling Out of Love with Hollywood
- She Taught at Harvard on Her Break from Acting
Winger loved acting as a teenager, but she was secretive about it, and never seriously considered it as a career. [rtk_adunit_top] Winger decided against drama school and began studying Criminology at California State University, Northridge after finishing high school. One day, at her part-time job in an amusement park, Winger fell from a truck and...
Winger’s close friend Steven Spielbergasked her to provide the voice of ET for the movie’s rough cut. [rtk_adunit_top] Winger’s voice has been described by People as “five pounds of walnuts being cracked underwater” – making her the perfect fit for the otherworldly ET. In the final cut of the film, however, veteran actress Pat Welsh voices the frie...
While love may have blossomed between Winger and politician Bob Kerrey on the set of Terms of Endearment, tension abound between the actress and her co-star Shirley MacLaine. [rtk_adunit_top] While Winger was more rebellious and outspoken, MacLaine was more conservative and quiet – leading to the two to spectacularly clash. The cattiness between th...
When Michael Douglas was producing Romancing the Stone, he hoped to cast Winger opposite him as Joan, an adventurous romance novelist. [rtk_adunit_top] Douglas met with Winger in a Mexican restaurant to discuss the role, but the interview went awry. According to Kathleen Turner, who eventually played Joan, Douglas claimed that Winger had sunk her t...
Already a household name by 1987, Winger was among the top choices for the part of Alex Forrest, the scorned lover in Fatal Attraction. [rtk_adunit_top] The role of Forrest ultimately went to Glenn Close, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. Melanie Griffith, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Saran...
Winger’s breakthrough role came in 1980 with the neo-Western film Urban Cowboy, where she starred as waitress Sissy. [rtk_adunit_top] Winger didn’t have much previous acting experience, but she took a very hands-on approach when it came to getting into character. Back in 1980, Peopleclaimed that Winger spent time “slugging tequila” at Gilley’s bar ...
Winger famously feuded with her co-star Richard Gere on the set of 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. [rtk_adunit_top] Having publicly called the award-winning actor a “brick wall”,Winger also reportedly hated every minute of making the film largely due to the tension between herself and Gere. It’s fair to say that Gere was also resentful of Win...
Winger knows her own mind and has always been very particular about what roles she takes on – even if her decisions can seem arbitrary from an outside perspective. [rtk_adunit_top] Most notably, she turned down the chance to play Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The film was a huge success and won a whopping five Academy Awards, seven S...
The early days of Winger’s career saw the talented actress go from strength to strength. [rtk_adunit_top] However, despite the fact that becoming an actress had been a childhood dream, Winger soon fell out of love with the vocation. By 1995, she had decided that it was time to take a step back from appearing on the silver screen. She wouldn’t appea...
During her break from acting in the late 90s, Winger joined Harvard University as a Teaching Fellow. [rtk_adunit_top] Winger herself was the one to approach Harvard with her teaching application. She taught a course named The Literature of Social Reflection. During this acting hiatus Winger also wrote a book called Undiscovered, which was published...
Debra Lynn Winger (born May 16, 1955) 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.
May 19, 2017 · After memorable performances in An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Urban Cowboy, Debra had found herself in the top tier of American actresses, but she shocked everyone by turning her back on the industry in 1995. It was an extremely personal decision, spurred by her growing disillusionment with the movie business.
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May 10, 2024 · Oscar-nominated Debra Winger is one of the most enigmatic actresses of her generation. She burst onto the film scene in 1980 with “Urban Cowboy” and in the course of the next three years, she...
May 3, 2017 · It’s an exciting prospect: a starring role for a true independent in Hollywood, an actress who for a decade and a half animated stories of women seeking independence, self-realization or respect in some form or another in otherwise traditional institutions.
