Andy Garcia and Forest Whitaker Join The Truth
October 24th, 2011
Eva Longoria, Kevin Durand, Kim Coates, and Deborah Kara Unger have also joined Damian Lee's action thriller.
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- Birth Date:March 31st, 1964 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Credits: Acting
Full Bio
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
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
ACTING CREDITS
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A Dark Truth (2013) ...Morgan Swinton
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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012) ...Dahlia
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The Samaritan (2012) ...Helena
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The Way (2011) ...Sarah
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Combat HospitalTV (8 episodes)-
Do No Harm...Major Grace Pedersen
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Triage...Major Grace Pedersen
Aug 30, 2011 -
Brothers in ArmsAug 30, 2011
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Shifting Sands...Major Grace Pedersen
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Reckless...Major Grace Pedersen
Aug 2, 2011 -
Inner Truth...Major Grace Pedersen
Jul 26, 2011
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The City of Gardens (2011) ...Consul Powers
HEADLINES
First Look at Radha Mitchell in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D!
March 15th, 2011The film adds Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean and Deborah Kara Unger. Get your first glimpse at the actress in the new Silent Hill sequel.