Deborah Kara Unger Biography
Born: May 12, 1963
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, 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, Unger starred as a Canadian activist working to free a wrongfully imprisoned championship boxer (Denzel_Washington). Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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