Deborah Kara Unger
Born: January 1, 1966 FULL 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, 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).
FULL FILMOGRAPHY 2005 A Love Song For Bobby Long Character played: Georgianna 2005 White Noise Character played: Sarah Tate 2003 Stander Character played: Bekkie Stander 2002 Thirteen Character played: Brooke 2003 Hollywood North Character played: Sandy Ryan 2003 Emile Characters played: Nada, Nadia 2003 One Point O Character played: Trish 2002 The Salton Sea Character played: Colette 2002 Ten Tiny Love Stories 2002 Between Strangers Character played: Catherine 2003 Fear X Character played: Kate 2002 Leo  Character played: Caroline 1999 Sunshine Character played: Carola 2000 Signs & Wonders Character played: Katherine 1999 Payback Character played: Lynn 1999 The Hurricane Character played: Lisa 1998 The Weekend Character played: Marian 1998 Luminous Motion Character played: Mom 1998 The Rat Pack Character played: Ava Gardner 1996 Crash Character played: Mrs. Catherine Ballard 1997 The Game Character played: Christine 1997 No Way Home Character played: Lorraine 1995 Keys to Tulsa Character played: Vicky Michaels Stover 1995 Highlander: The Final Dimension Characters played: Alex Johnson/Sarah, Alex Johnson, Sarah 1994 State of Emergency Character played: Sue Payton 1993 Hotel Room 1992 Whispers in the Dark Character played: Eve Abergray 1991 Prisoners of the Sun Character played: Sister Carol Littell 1991 Till There Was You Character played: Anna Vivaldi 1990 Breakaway Character played: Marion