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Born 17 May 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio, Debra Winger was six years old when her family moved to California.. Graduating from high school at age 15, she went to Israel for a year and, a child of Orthodox Jews, applied for Israeli citizenship, worked on a collective, and joined the Israeli army for three months before returning to Los Angeles and attending California State University to pursue a degree in sociology. A near-fatal auto accident in 1973 left her in a coma. For several months she was blind in one eye and partially paralyzed. Once recovered, she embarked on an acting career, signing up for Michael Gazzo's acting workshop.
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At 17 Debra Winger was a troll at the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. One day, while changing into costume in the back of a truck, the truck unexpectedly moved, landing Winger on her head and in a coma for three days. Upon waking, she was partially paralyzed and in the opinion of doctors, permanently blind, but over the next ten months Winger's sight and bodily functions slowly returned.
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Those surveyed chose Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger's enduring relationship as Aurora Greenway and Emma Horton in "Terms of Endearment" (1983) as the best portrayal of the relationship between a mother and child. In fact 1997 rentals of "Terms of Endearment" increased 250 percent during the month prior to Mother's Day.
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