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Personal Details
Other Works:
"Ivanov"-a stage play by
Anton Chekhov performed with her second husband
Arliss Howard at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Publicity Listings:
1 Print Biography
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3 Interviews
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3 Articles
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10 Pictorials
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10 Magazine Cover Photos
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Alternate Names:
Emmett | Debbie Winger
Height:
5' 4" (1.63 m)
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Personal Quote:
[She earned Best Actress Oscar nominations for playing young women who died of cancer in
Terms of Endearment (1983) and in
Shadowlands (1993)] I remember walking through the living room years ago when the series
Roseanne (1988) was on.
John Goodman said, "Come on, do you want to go down to the multiplex and watch
Debra Winger cough up another lung?" It was the funniest line to me. Then I realized...
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Trivia:
She spent a good part of the 1980s trying to get the studios to cast her in a biography of torch singer
Libby Holman, and another on Isabel Eberhardt, a 19th-century mystic who became involved in fighting religious wars in the Middle East. However, she had burned too many bridges to call in any favors. Also, at that time, studios were reluctant to finance female-driven films, so neither biography...
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Trademark:
Deep throaty voice