Debra Winger
Debra Winger
Debra Lynn Wingeris an American actress. She has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress; for An Officer and a Gentleman, Terms of Endearment, and Shadowlands. She 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. Her other film roles include Urban Cowboy, Legal Eagles, Black Widow, Betrayed, Forget Paris, and Rachel Getting Married. In 2012,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth16 May 1955
CityCleveland Heights, OH
CountryUnited States of America
I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good.
I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.
I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.
I do admit to being challenging, but it's always for the work, it's never personal. I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.
Ultimately, however, the script an actor enlivens is someone else's words.
If you want to get a facelift, get a facelift. Don't sit there and talk about why you got it because of the pressure.
I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.
You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week.
I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.
I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.
People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
I tend to wear outfits that match the walls.