Debra Winger
{{short description|American actress (born 1955)}}
{{Infobox person
| image = Debrawinger1984.jpg
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| caption = Winger in 1984
| name = Debra Winger
| birth_name = Debra Lynn Winger{{Cite web|url=https://www.pressreader.com/usa/closer-weekly/20200511/282084868951188|title=My Life in 10 Pictures|via=PressReader}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|5|16}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s90MD22wtA4C&q=debra+winger+may+1955 |isbn=9781857430219 |title=The International Who's Who: 1996-97 |year=1996 |publisher=Europa Publications}}
| birth_place = Cleveland Heights, Ohio, U.S.
| education = California State University, Northridge
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1976–present
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Timothy Hutton|1986|1990|reason=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Arliss Howard|1996}}
}}
| children = 2
}}
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. 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 Dangerous Woman (1993).
Winger's other films include Urban Cowboy (1980), Legal Eagles (1986), Black Widow (1987), Betrayed (1988), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Forget Paris (1995), and Rachel Getting Married (2008). In 2012, she made her Broadway debut in the original production of David Mamet's play The Anarchist. She received a lifetime achievement award at the Transilvania International Film Festival in 2014,{{cite news| url=http://www.filmneweurope.com/festivals/item/108308-debra-winger-recipient-of-the-lifetime-achievement-award-at-transilvania-iff |work=Film New Europe |title=Debra Winger – Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at Transilvania IFF |date=May 20, 2014 |access-date=February 20, 2019}} and starred in the Netflix original television series The Ranch (2016–2020).
Early years
Winger was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, into a Jewish family, to Robert Winger, a meat packer, and Ruth (née Felder), an office manager.{{cite news|author=Jan Hoffman|title=FILM; Debra Winger: Caught on a Winter Afternoon|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/09/movies/film-debra-winger-caught-on-a-winter-afternoon.html|work=The New York Times|date=January 9, 1994|page=211|access-date=December 27, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113040438/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/09/movies/film-debra-winger-caught-on-a-winter-afternoon.html|archive-date=November 13, 2013|df=mdy-all}}{{cite news|author=Naomi Pfefferman|title='Big Bad' Debra|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/big_bad_debra_20020308|work=The Jewish Journal|date=March 7, 2002|access-date=December 27, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417120317/http://www.jewishjournal.com/arts/article/big_bad_debra_20020308|archive-date=April 17, 2009|df=mdy-all}} Over the years, she told many interviewers that she volunteered on an Israeli kibbutz, sometimes even saying she had trained with the Israel Defense Forces,
- {{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/12/13/debra-winger-coming-to-terms/9b5b12f7-8436-4a06-9d81-cded54754157/ |title=Debra Winger, Coming to Terms |first=Henry |last=Allen |author-link=Henry Allen (journalist) |date=December 13, 1983 |newspaper=The Washington Post |quote=She tried studying criminology and sociology at Cal State-Northridge, and went to Israel to spend time on a kibbutz, but by 17, she'd moved away from home and she was making it in commercials. |access-date=June 24, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818001320/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/12/13/debra-winger-coming-to-terms/9b5b12f7-8436-4a06-9d81-cded54754157/ |archive-date=August 18, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}
- {{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19831225&id=hsYxAAAAIBAJ&pg=7043,3204088 |title=Don't Try to 'Type' Debra Winger |first=Bob |last=Thomas |author-link=Bob Thomas (reporter) |date=December 25, 1983 |work=The Gainesville Sun |agency=The Associated Press |quote=After high school, she worked on an Israeli kibbutz, trained with the Israeli army, and then returned to the United States to study sociology at California State University at Northridge. |access-date=June 24, 2016 }}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086744,00.html |title=Debra Winger |date=December 26, 1983 |work=People |quote=At 16, she ran off to a kibbutz and did her basic training in the Israeli Army. |access-date=June 24, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828180025/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20086744,00.html |archive-date=August 28, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/on-her-own-terms-1.193028 |title=On Her Own Terms |first=Uri |last=Klein |date=July 14, 2006 |work=Haaretz |quote=Exaggerated reports about her also concern her biography. For example, at one of the Internet sites devoted to her it is stated that she spent part of her youth on a kibbutz in Israel and even served for several months in the Israel Defense Forces. Winger laughs. Indeed, when she was 17, she spent four months at Kibbutz Beit Zera, but she never enlisted in the IDF. She took part in Gadna (youth cadet) activities, and apparently once told this to someone who told it to someone and it developed into an urban legend, according to which Debra Winger was once a soldier in the IDF. |access-date=June 24, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810030707/http://www.haaretz.com/on-her-own-terms-1.193028 |archive-date=August 10, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/israel_at_60/article/debra_winger_explores_jewisharab_day_schools_20080425 |title=Debra Winger Explores Jewish/Arab Day Schools |first=Orit |last=Arfa |date=April 24, 2008 |work=The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles |quote=Raised in a secular Jewish household in Cleveland, Winger volunteered on a kibbutz in 1972 and has maintained her connection ever since. |access-date=June 24, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919013328/http://www.jewishjournal.com/israel_at_60/article/debra_winger_explores_jewisharab_day_schools_20080425 |archive-date=September 19, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} but in a 2008 interview she said she was merely on a typical youth tour that visited the kibbutz.{{cite web |url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/56245-debra-winger-on-life-beyond-hollywood/ |title=Debra Winger on Life Beyond Hollywood |first=Leonard |last=Lopate |author-link=Leonard Lopate |date=June 10, 2008 |work=The Leonard Lopate Show |publisher=WNYC |access-date=June 24, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917204625/http://www.wnyc.org/story/56245-debra-winger-on-life-beyond-hollywood/ |archive-date=September 17, 2016 |df=mdy-all }} At age 18, after returning to the U.S., she was involved in a car crash and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage; as a result, she was left partially paralyzed and blind for 10 months, initially being 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.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/06/movies/where-there-s-smoke-there-s-a-fiery-actress-named-debra-winger.html |newspaper=The New York Times |title=Where There's Smoke, There's A Fiery Actress Named Debra Winger |first=Stephen |last=Farber |date=July 6, 1986 |access-date=May 1, 2010}}
Career
= Acting =
File:Debra Winger - St Louis Post Dispatch (1978).jpg
Winger's first acting role was as "Debbie" in the 1976 sexploitation film Slumber Party '57. Her next role was as Diana Prince's younger sister Drusilla (Wonder Girl) in three episodes of ABC's TV series Wonder Woman. The producers wanted her to appear more often, but she refused, fearing that the role would hurt her fledgling career. This was followed by a guest role in season 4 of the TV drama Police Woman in 1978.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0676403/|title=Battered Teachers|date=January 1, 2000|via=IMDb|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031053231/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0676403/|archive-date=October 31, 2017|df=mdy-all}} Winger played a supporting role in Willard Huyck's 1979 comic coming-of-age film French Postcards.
Winger's first major role was in Thank God It's Friday, followed by Urban Cowboy in 1980, 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). In 1982 she 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. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress twice more: for Terms of Endearment in 1983 (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. Her performance in A Dangerous Woman earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.{{cite web|url=http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/node/947|title=Debra Winger bio|publisher=American Repertory Theater|access-date=October 8, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718182812/http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/node/947|archive-date=July 18, 2011|df=mdy-all}}
Over the years Winger acquired a reputation for being outspoken and difficult to work with.[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979989,00.html Debra Winger : Dangerous Woman] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091102062231/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979989,00.html |date=November 2, 2009 }}, Time, article by Richard Corliss and Elizabeth L. Bland, January 24, 1994[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3850372/Debra-Winger-a-star-is-re-born.html Debra Winger: a star is re-born] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171203141306/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3850372/Debra-Winger-a-star-is-re-born.html |date=December 3, 2017 }}, Daily Telegraph, December 19, 2008{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/06/movies/where-there-s-smoke-there-s-a-fiery-actress-named-debra-winger.html|title=Where There's Smoke, There's A Fiery Actress Named Debra Winger|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125042933/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/06/movies/where-there-s-smoke-there-s-a-fiery-actress-named-debra-winger.html|archive-date=January 25, 2017|url-status=live|work=The New York Times|first=Stephen|last=Farber|date=July 6, 1986}} She has expressed her dislike of An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she refused to do any publicity, and several of her other films, and has been dismissive of some of her co-stars and directors. When Barbara Walters interviewed Bette Davis in 1986, 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."
Winger was to play Peggy Sue in the film Peggy Sue Got Married but was forced to back out just before production began after injuring her back in a bicycle accident. The role went to Kathleen Turner. The injury affected Winger's ability to work for several months. She was cast in A League of Their Own but dropped out and was replaced by Geena Davis. It was later reported that Winger dropped out of the film because she refused to work with Madonna, whom Winger did not consider a serious actress.{{cite web|url=http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/09/04/penny-marshall-debra-winger-dropped-out-of-league-because-of-madonna|title=Penny Marshall: Debra Winger Dropped out of "League" Because of Madonna|date=September 4, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021065012/http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/09/04/penny-marshall-debra-winger-dropped-out-of-league-because-of-madonna|archive-date=October 21, 2013|df=mdy-all}} Other starring roles during this period included Legal Eagles, Made in Heaven, Everybody Wins, The Sheltering Sky, Leap of Faith, Black Widow, Betrayed, Wilder Napalm, and A Dangerous Woman.
In 1995, Winger decided to take a hiatus from acting. In 2002, she said, "I wanted out for years. I got sick of hearing myself say I wanted to quit. It's like opening an interview with 'I hate interviews!' Well, get out! I stopped reading scripts and stopped caring. People said, 'We miss you so much.' But in the last six years, tell me a film that I should have been in. The few I can think of the actress was so perfect".[https://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/features/5708/ Does Debra Winger Still Have Legs?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225125603/http://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/features/5708/ |date=February 25, 2009 }}, New York, article by Holly Millea, February 25, 2002 After making Forget Paris in 1995, she was absent from the screen for six years before returning in 2001 with Big Bad Love, written and directed by her husband, Arliss Howard. The film was also Winger's debut as a producer.{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2002/03/15/bad-love-portrays-a-writers-anguish/|title='Bad Love' portrays a writer's anguish|last=Wilmington|first=Michael|date=March 15, 2002|work=Chicago Tribune|access-date=July 28, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120728160135/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2002-03-15/entertainment/0203150390_1_big-bad-love-arliss-howard-debra-winger|archive-date=July 28, 2012|df=mdy-all}}
During her film hiatus, Winger had the female lead in the American Repertory Theater's stage production of Anton Chekhov's play Ivanov from November 1999 to January 2000.{{cite web|url=http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/ivanov|title=Ivanov|work=Experience the A.R.T.|publisher=American Repertory Theater|access-date=October 8, 2009|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202062531/http://www.americanrepertorytheater.org/events/show/ivanov|archive-date=December 2, 2010|df=mdy-all}}
Rosanna Arquette made a critically acclaimed documentary film, Searching for Debra Winger, that was released in 2002 after Winger returned to film acting. Winger subsequently starred in the films Radio, Eulogy, and Sometimes in April, and received positive reviews for portraying Anne Hathaway's estranged mother in Rachel Getting Married.{{cite news | url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/movies/03rach.html | work=The New York Times | title=Out of Rehab, Wreaking Havoc | first=A. O. | last=Scott | date=October 3, 2008 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301152448/http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/movies/03rach.html | archive-date=March 1, 2010 | df=mdy-all }}
File:Debra Winger at Transilvania International Film Festival.jpg
Winger earned an Emmy Award nomination for her title role as the mother of a Columbine shooting victim in the 2005 television film Dawn Anna, directed by Arliss Howard. In 2010 she returned to television, making a guest appearance as a high school principal in an episode of Law & Order.{{cite web|url=http://allthingslawandorder.blogspot.com/2010/01/law-order-boy-on-fire-episode.html|title=Law & Order "Boy on Fire" Episode Information|date=January 12, 2010|work=All Things Law and Order|publisher=blog|access-date=July 28, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120730221757/http://allthingslawandorder.blogspot.com/2010/01/law-order-boy-on-fire-episode.html|archive-date=July 30, 2012|df=mdy-all}} She also joined the cast of HBO's In Treatment as one of the three patients featured in the third season.{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/Cheers-Jeers-Debra-1024628.aspx |title=Cheers & Jeers: Debra Winger Gets the VIP Treatment |last=Fretts |first=Bruce |date=October 22, 2010 |publisher=TVGuide.com |access-date=October 29, 2010 }}
In 2013, Winger starred in three episodes of In the Woods,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780541/|title=The Being Experience: The Prologue|work=IMDb}} the first installment of Jennifer Elster's multimedia, experimental film series The Being Experience, also including Terrence Howard, Dave Matthews, Rufus Wainwright, Karen Black, Will Shortz, Liya Kebede, Questlove, Famke Janssen, Moby, Gale Harold, Paz de la Huerta, Jorgen Leth, Rosie Perez, Aubrey de Grey, and Alan Cumming.Matheson, Whitney, [https://www.usatoday.com/story/popcandy/2013/06/17/being-experience/2431175/ "Moby, Questlove, others endure puzzling 'Experience'"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415070531/https://www.usatoday.com/story/popcandy/2013/06/17/being-experience/2431175/ |date=April 15, 2018 }}, "USA TODAY", June 17, 2013
From 2016 to 2020, Winger starred opposite Sam Elliott and Ashton Kutcher in the Netflix multi-cam comedy The Ranch.
In 2017, Winger had a cameo as Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan in the TV miniseries When We Rise.{{Cite news|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/when-we-rise|title=Everything You Need To Know About 'When We Rise'|work=BuzzFeed|access-date=2017-04-23|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426152645/https://www.buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/when-we-rise|archive-date=April 26, 2017|df=mdy-all}} The same year, she starred in her first romantic lead after many years in The Lovers.{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/movies/2017/01/04/lovers-trailer-debra-winger-tracy-letts/|title=Debra Winger and Tracy Letts are 'The Lovers' in New Film's First Trailer|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=January 4, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105192806/http://ew.com/movies/2017/01/04/lovers-trailer-debra-winger-tracy-letts/|archive-date=January 5, 2017|df=mdy-all}} She has continued to acquire roles in other feature films, such as Tiger City, released in 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.in/content/louis-kahn-architect-film-iim-ahmedabad-design/|title=Brick Whisperer: Architect Louis Kahn's magnum opus now in cinemas near you|website=Architectural Digest India|date=29 November 2017|access-date=April 28, 2018|df=mdy-all}}
=Other pursuits=
In 1995, 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. Her roles in that special were the "Cyclone" narrator and the Wicked Witch of the West. It was originally broadcast on both TBS and TNT.
During her hiatus from the film industry, Winger spent a semester as a teaching fellow at Harvard University.{{cite news|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1999/9/28/winger-trades-silver-screen-for-section/|title=Winger Trades Silver Screen for Section|last=Solomon-Schwartz|first=Benjamin P.|date=September 28, 1999|work=The Harvard Crimson|access-date=23 February 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605071717/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1999/9/28/winger-trades-silver-screen-for-section/|archive-date=June 5, 2015|df=mdy-all}} In 2008, she wrote a book, Undiscovered, based on her personal recollections.{{cite web|url=http://www.blueflowerarts.com/dwinger.html|title=Debra Winger, Actor—Blue Flower Arts: An Agency Representing Poets, Authors and Speakers|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517084633/http://www.blueflowerarts.com/dwinger.html|archive-date=May 17, 2008|df=mdy-all}} She has shown her support for reconciliation between Arabs and Jews in Israel by visiting the bilingual Hand in Hand schools (Galilee Jewish-Arab School, Gesher al HaWadi School) where, in 2008, she said she would "dedicate the next bit of my life to these schools".{{cite news|url=http://www.handinhandk12.org/index.cfm?content.display&pageID=245 |title=Weighing their words with care |last=Kupfer |first=Ruta |date=March 28, 2008 |work=Ha'aretz |publisher=reprinted in Hand in Hand: Learning Together Living Together |access-date=October 8, 2009 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
In 2010, Winger was co-executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland.{{cite news|last=Koehler|first=Robert|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117941971.html|title=Gasland Movie Review from the Sundance Film Festival|date=January 25, 2010|newspaper=Variety|access-date=October 17, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101216061843/http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117941971|archive-date=December 16, 2010}} She was also the executive producer of the 2012 documentary Bel Borba Aqui, about the life and works of Brazilian graphic artist Bel Borba.{{cite news|author=Rohter, Larry|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/arts/design/bel-borba-brings-contagious-creativity-to-new-york-streets.html|title=Brazil's Pied Piper of Street Art|work=The New York Times|date=September 18, 2012|access-date=October 17, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061620/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/arts/design/bel-borba-brings-contagious-creativity-to-new-york-streets.html|archive-date=September 21, 2013|df=mdy-all}}{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000700/|title=Debra Winger|publisher=IMDb.com|access-date=October 17, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715235458/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000700/|archive-date=July 15, 2013|df=mdy-all}}
Personal life
Winger's three-year relationship with actor Andrew Rubin ended in 1980.{{cite web|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20077215,00.html|title=Two Sexy 'Urban Cowgirls'—One Called Debra Winger—Give Travolta a Run for His Movie – Vol. 14 No. 7|date=August 18, 1980|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022130230/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20077215,00.html|archive-date=October 22, 2013|df=mdy-all}} From 1983 to 1985 she dated Bob Kerrey, at the time the governor of Nebraska, whom she met while filming Terms of Endearment in Lincoln, Nebraska.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-12-ca-438-story.html|title=SHORT TAKES : Debra Winger Is Not for Politics|date=September 12, 1990|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 28, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120730220518/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-12/entertainment/ca-438_1_debra-winger|archive-date=July 30, 2012|df=mdy-all}} Winger also dated her Cannery Row and Everybody Wins co-star Nick Nolte.{{cite news |title=Debra Winger: The return of a class act |date=24 October 2008 |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/debra-winger-the-return-of-a-class-act-971262.html |last=Flynn |first=Gaynor}}
From 1986 to 1990, Winger was married to actor Timothy Hutton, with whom she had a son, Noah Hutton, a documentary filmmaker born in 1987. The marriage ended in divorce.Rachel Cooke [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/dec/28/1 "The interview: Debra Winger"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427171835/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/dec/28/1 |date=April 27, 2017}}, "The Observer", December 28, 2008. Retrieved June 17, 2010.
In 1996, Winger married actor/director Arliss Howard, whom she met on the set of the film Wilder Napalm. Their son, Gideon Babe Ruth Howard (known as Babe), was born in 1997. She is stepmother to Sam Howard, Arliss's son from his prior marriage.
In March 2025, Winger protested against the detention of Mahmoud Khalil at Trump Tower. She accused the Trump administration of having "no interest in Jewish safety" and "co-opting antisemitism."{{Cite web |last=Attanasio |first=Cedar |date=2025-03-13 |title=Jewish protesters flood Trump Tower's lobby to demand Mahmoud Khalil's release |url=https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-protests-khalil-trump-tower-8e2f455134a2f1b82458e32aecbb59f7 |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=AP News |language=en}} In an interview, she stated "I have a debt for what I grew up with and believed on what the state of Israel has done and what they haven’t done, and how they’re conflating Judaism with Zionism."{{Cite web |last=Kaloi |first=Stephanie |date=2025-03-16 |title=Debra Winger Protests Mahmoud Khalil Detention, Says She Has 'A Debt to Pay' After Falsehoods of Jewish Upbringing |url=https://www.thewrap.com/debra-winger-protests-mahmoud-khalil-detention-debt/ |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=TheWrap |language=en-US}}
Filmography
=Film=
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
| 1976–1977
|Drusilla / Wonder Girl |3 episodes: "The Feminum Mystique" (Parts 1 & 2), "Wonder Woman in Hollywood" |
| rowspan=2|1977
|Jenny |Episode: "Run, Jenny, Run" |
| Tattletales
|Herself |5 episodes |
| rowspan=3|1978
|Sherrie Hensley |TV movie |
| Police Woman
|Phyllis Baxter |Episode: "Battered Teachers" |
| James at 16
|Alicia |Episode: "Hunter Country" |
| 1992
|Herself |Episode 2934: "A day with Debra" |
| rowspan=2|2005
|Dawn Anna |TV movie |
| Sometimes in April
|Prudence Bushnell |TV movie |
| rowspan=2|2010
|Mrs. Woodside |Episode: "Boy on Fire" |
| In Treatment
|Frances |7 episodes |
| 2014
|Rebecca |2 episodes |
| 2016–2020
|Maggie Bennett |Main role |
| rowspan=2|2017
| |
| Comrade Detective
|Iona Anghel (voice) |Episode: "No Exit" |
| 2018
|Bernice Tavner |Main role (season 2) |
| rowspan=2|2021
|Trish McSapphire (voice) |5 episodes |
| Mr. Corman
|Ruth Corman |4 episodes |
| 2024
|Margot |Episode: "Margot's Story" |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|700}}
- {{Tcmdb name|207811%7C0}}
- [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/yy_20040129.shtml Transcript of Radio 4 interview]
- {{YouTube|AAEjVoxU9BA|Texas Monthly Talks: Debra Winger, video posted on November 3, 2008}}
{{National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress}}
{{TokyoInternationalFilmFestivalBestActress}}
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