| BIOGRAPHY
Bearing talent and cool, sophisticated beauty in equal measure,
Deborah Kara Unger is one of Canada's most visible actresses.
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, where she was born in
1966, Unger first distinguished herself as the first Canadian-born
actress to be accepted to the prestigious Australian National
Institute of Dramatic Art. While in Australia, she made her professional
debut on the television miniseries Bangkok Hilton (1989), in which
she co-starred with Nicole Kidman and Denholm Elliott.
On the screen, Unger, who had been appearing in films since 1990,
first made an impression on audiences with her role as a hyper-sexual
patient who reveals more than just her neuroses to her psychiatrist
(Annabella Sciorra) in Whispers in the Dark (1992).
She earned an additional dose of notoriety when she again revealed
all in David Cronenberg's controversial Crash (1996), which cast
her as the wife of car crash survivor and fetishist James Spader.
Roles in such films as David Fincher's psychological thriller
The Game (1997) and the made-for-TV The Rat Pack (1998) -- which
featured Unger as Ava Gardner -- followed, and in 1999 the actress
could be seen in no less than three major motion pictures.
In Payback, Kara Unger played Mel Gibson's double-crossing girlfriend;
István Szabó's historical epic Sunshine cast her
as the wife of a Communist party official, while in Norman Jewison's
The Hurricane, Debra starred as a Canadian activist working to
free a wrongfully imprisoned championship boxer (Denzel Washington).
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FILMOGRAPHY
• White Noise (2005)
• A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
• Stander (2004)
• Hollywood North (2003)
• Thirteen (2003)
• Leo (2002)
• The Salton Sea (2002)
• Signs & Wonders (2001)
• Ten Tiny Love Stories (2001)
• Luminous Motion (2000)
• Sunshine (2000)
• The Weekend (2000)
• The Hurricane (1999)
• Payback (1999)
• Crash (1997)
• The Game (1997)
• Keys to Tulsa (1997)
• No Way Home (1996)
• Highlander 3: The Final Dimension (1994)
• Whispers in the Dark (1992)
• Till There Was You (1990) |
