Debra Lynn Winger was born on 16 May 1955, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA. She is an actress, best known for films such as “Terms of Endearment”, “An Officer and a Gentleman” and “Shadowlands”, which all earned her Academy Award nominations. She also won a Tokyo International Film Festival Award for her performance in “A Dangerous Woman”; all of her efforts have helped put her net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Debra Winger? As of mid-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $16 million, mostly earned through a successful career as an actress. Aside from films, she’s also known for her on stage performances and for her parts in various television shows. Winger has also tried her hand at production work, so as she continues her career it’s likely that her wealth will also increase.
Debra Winger Net Worth $16 Million Dollars
At a young age, Debra suffered in a car accident that left her blind and partially paralyzed for ten months. During recovery, she had resolved that she would try her hand at becoming an actress.
One of her first films was “Slumber Party ’57” in 1976, considered a sexploitation film, a genre identified to be a precursor to pornographic films. She then appeared in a few episodes of the television show “Wonder Woman”, and made a guest appearance in “Police Woman”. Her first major role came in “Thank God It’s Friday”, and this opened an opportunity for her to be a part of “Urban Cowboy” alongside John Travolta, in which her performance would earn her several nominations. In 1982, she was cast in “Cannery Row” and then in “An Officer and a Gentleman” with Richard Gere, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, and this would continue with a string of nominations for her performances in “Terms of Endearment”, “Shadowlands” and “A Dangerous Woman”. Her voice was also used for the Steven Spielberg film “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial”. Her net worth was well established by now.
After numerous films, Winger started to earn notoriety for her difficult attitude towards co-stars. She was supposed to be cast for “Peggy Sue Got Married”, but had a bike accident which forced her out of the film. She was then cast for “A League of Their Own” but dropped out before production started. Despite this, she continued to take parts in various films such as “Black Widow”, “Leap of Faith”, “Everybody Wins”, and “Wilder Napalm”.
Eventually she took a hiatus from acting in the late ’90s, and didn’t appear on the screen until 2001 in “Big Bad Love”. Prior to appearing in the film, she had tried her hand in various stage productions such as “Ivanov”. “Big Bad Love” also marked the first time that she would become a producer. A documentary film about her entitled “Searching for Debra Winger” was released soon after, and she then officially returned to acting, with parts in “Radio”, “Eulogy”, “Sometimes in April”, and “Rachel Getting Married” as Anne Hathaway’s mother. She started earning nominations once again, and then appeared in “Dawn Anna”, “Law & Order” and “In Treatment”, and “Boy Choir” in 2015. One of her latest projects is “The Ranch” which stars Ashton Kutcher and Sam Elliot, scheduled for a 2016 release.
For her personal life, it is known that she had a relationship with Andrew Rubin which lasted for three years. She also dated former Governor of Nebraska Bob Kerrey from 1983 to 1985. She was reported to have dated Nick Nolte who was her co-star in “Cannery Row” and “Everybody Wins”. She then married actor Timothy Hutton in 1986 and they had a son who became a documentary filmmaker. They eventually divorced in 1990, and she then married actor Arliss Howard six years later. They have two sons, one of whom is from Arliss’ previous marriage.
