Debra won the role over a then-unknown Michelle Pfeiffer and gave a star-making performance as John Travolta 's wife. Her handling of the mechanical bull made her a new kind of sex symbol. She would always remain grateful to her director James Bridges for threatening to quit the film if the studio didn't cast her. However, she followed it up with a flop, Cannery Row But, she became part of one of the top-grossing films of all time by providing her deep, throaty voice to the title character of E.
She also appeared in the film for a few seconds in the Halloween scene, where she is wearing a zombie mask and carrying a poodle. She received her first Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for the huge hit, An Officer and a Gentleman , where her on-screen love scenes with Richard Gere became just as legendary as her off-screen fights with him and with director Taylor Hackford.
Debra's reputation as a great talent, as well as her reputation as a difficult actress grew with her next film, Terms of Endearment , which not only earned her a second Oscar nomination as Best Actress but also won the Best Picture as well.
Debra was at the top of her game and was the most sought-after actress in Hollywood, but she turned down quality roles and lucrative offers for three years. Some speculated that the reason was her romantic involvement with Bob Kerrey , then-governor of Nebraska, while others have stated it was her back problems. Whatever her reasons were, her career lost its heat. Her long-delayed film Mike's Murder , reuniting her with her "Urban Cowboy" director James Bridges, didn't help matters either when it became a critical and financial flop.
Debra tried to revive her career by starring in the big-budget comedy Legal Eagles , but she disliked the film so much that she publicly stated that the director, Ivan Reitman , was one of the two worst directors she worked with, the other director being Taylor Hackford An Officer and a Gentleman She also walked out on her agency, CAA, but returned several years later.
Her personal life made headlines when she left Bob Kerrey and eloped with Oscar-winning actor Timothy Hutton in In , she gave birth to their son, Noah Hutton. She also starred in Black Widow , which wasn't a hit, and acted alongside Hutton as a male angel in Made in Heaven which flopped.
She followed that up by starring in another flop, Betrayed , which featured a fleeting cameo by Hutton. She separated from Hutton in and they divorced in , at which time she had two more bombs, Everybody Wins and The Sheltering Sky However, she relished the experience on The Sheltering Sky so much that she stayed in the Sahara desert long after filming wrapped.
But, she found love on the set of her next film, Wilder Napalm when she co-starred opposite Arliss Howard , who became her next husband. The film flopped but their marriage lasted. She received good notices for A Dangerous Woman , but it was Shadowlands which finally brought her renewed respectability and her third Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. She followed that up with a forgettable comedy, Forget Paris Then, she signed to do "Divine Rapture" with Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp in a small village in Ireland, but two weeks into filming, financing fell apart, and the film was never completed.
Winger was never paid for her work, and neither were the poor villagers, and Winger said she was devastated for them. Now 40, Debra felt that there were no good roles for her and she concentrated on motherhood by having a second son, Babe Howard , in Her six-year absence from films inspired a documentary by Rosanna Arquette titled Searching for Debra Winger , which is about sexism and ageism in Hollywood.
In , she returned to acting in her husband's film, Big Bad Love , which she also co-produced. It renewed her love for acting, and she has ventured out into television as well by earning her first Emmy nomination as Best Actress for Dawn Anna , directed by her husband.
In , she wrote a well-written book, based on her personal recollections, titled "Undiscovered". Her television exposure reignited her feature film career, and she was cast in her first romantic lead in 22 years in The Lovers And she had also mellowed with age, presenting an award to Richard Gere in and saying kind things about director Taylor Hackford in , after having fought with both of them during An Officer and a Gentleman Nobody can deny that Debra Winger is one of the best American actresses ever.
Her fans hope that Hollywood will finally reward her talent with a long-overdue Academy Award. Sign In. Edit Debra Winger. Showing all 70 items. Daughter of Robert and Ruth Winger. June 15, with husband Arliss Howard.
James L. Brooks wrote Broadcast News 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 television series Wonder Woman but quickly became disillusioned and spent all her salary from the series to hire an attorney to get her out of her contract.
Reportedly didn't like working on Wonder Woman but the series's star Lynda Carter said the two hadn't had any problems and that she had been like a big sister to Winger. She was given the choice of the two roles in Black Widow ; 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 turned down Karen Allen 's role in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark , which turned out to be one of the highest grossing films of all time. She was originally signed to play Peggy Sue Bodell in Peggy Sue Got Married but was forced to withdraw after her back was severely injured in a bicycle accident.
Debra missed out on other roles, due to the many months it took her to fully recover. Ward and Richard Attenborough. When she was 14, her father had installed a burglar alarm for the celebrated director George Cukor and told him that his daughter wanted to be a actress.
Cukor looked at Winger and told her, "That voice, and you got no walk and you got no class! Cukor was still alive when Winger became a star with Urban Cowboy but he didn't get a chance to know about her first Oscar nomination as Best Actress for An Officer and a Gentleman , since the nomination was announced a few days after he died. She spent a good part of the s 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 was ever made.
They met in person two years later, in , for a film that they were supposed to be cast in, called 'Road Show'. But it was revamped and made with different actors a decade later under a new title, Medicine Man Hutton later said they talked for six hours about everything at that first meeting, and Winger said there was so much electricity between them that they got scared and ran in opposite directions. They kept running into each other once every six months, and Hutton later described these encounters "like turning magnets around.
Almost immediately, they started living together and married just three months later. Despair followed the happy occasion. Her orthodox Jewish grandmother stopped talking to her, because Hutton wasn't Jewish. Worse, Winger later miscarried after getting pregnant on her wedding night. She got pregnant again and gave birth to their son, Noah Hutton , in , but just a year later, they separated and divorced two years later. During their short marriage, they appeared together in two films Made in Heaven and Betrayed that flopped at the box office, as well as a "Life" magazine cover.
A decade after their divorce, Winger married to her second husband Arliss Howard said there was "no bad blood" between them. In , she and Howard invited their ex-spouses to spend Thanksgiving with them, and she said there was no awkwardness or tension anymore.
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