Early life

Deborah Kara Unger was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to a nuclear disposal specialist mother and a gynaecologist father. She was the first Canadian to be accepted into Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Career

Upon graduation Unger found steady work in Australian films and television series, including Bangkok Hilton with Nicole Kidman. Following her return to North America in the early 1990s she appeared in David Lynch's 1993 HBO mini-series Hotel Room, and a year later starred in Highlander III: The Sorcerer opposite Christopher Lambert.

Unger's breakthrough role came in David Cronenberg's 1996 erotic drama Crash, about a group of people who take sexual pleasure from car accidents, a notable form of paraphilia. Unger followed up her performance in Crash by starring with Michael Douglas in the psychological thriller The Game, directed by David Fincher. In 1998 she played Ava Gardner in HBO's The Rat Pack, and in 1999 she appeared in Payback with Mel Gibson, The Hurricane with Denzel Washington and the award-winning ensemble drama Sunshine.

Unger starred in many independent films in the early 2000s, such as Signs and Wonders, Ten Tiny Love Stories, Fear X, Thirteen, Stander, Hollywood North, Emile, Paranoia 1.0 and A Love Song for Bobby Long. She played a leading role opposite Sophia Loren and Mira Sorvino in the 2002 independent movie Between Strangers, about three women who confront their pasts which changes their futures, for which she was nominated on Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role.

From 2005 to 2010, Unger appeared in White Noise, Things That Hang from Trees, The Alibi, Silent Hill, 88 Minutes, Walled In, Messages Deleted and The Way. In 2011 she took a starring role in the television series Combat Hospital, and in 2012 reprised her role as Dahlia Gillespie in Silent Hill: Revelation.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Bangkok Hilton	Astra	TV mini-series
1990	Till There Was You	Anna Vivaldi
	Breakaway	Marion
	Prisoners of the Sun	Sister Littell
1992	Whispers in the Dark	Eve Abergray
1993	Hotel Room	Sasha	TV mini-series, 1 episode, "Getting Rid of Robert"
1994	State of Emergency	Sue Payton	Television film
	Highlander III: The Sorcerer	Alex Johnson/Sarah
1996	Crash	Catherine Ballard
	No Way Home	Lorraine
	Keys to Tulsa	Vicky Michaels Stover
1997	The Game	Christine
1998	Luminous Motion	Mom
	The Rat Pack	Ava Gardner	Television film
1999	Payback	Mrs. Lynn Porter
	The Weekend	Marian Kerr
	Sunshine	Maj. Carole Kovács
	The Hurricane	Lisa Peters
2000	Signs and Wonders	Katherine
2002	Ten Tiny Love Stories	Seven
	The Salton Sea	Colette
	Leo	Caroline
	Between Strangers	Catherine
2003	Thirteen	Brooke LaLaine
	Fear X	Kate
	Hollywood North	Sandy Ryan
	Stander	Bekkie Stander
	Emile	Nadia
2004	Paranoia 1.0	Trish
	A Love Song for Bobby Long	Georgianna
2005	White Noise	Sarah Tate
	Jesus of Suburbia	Saint Jimmy's mother	music video by Green Day
2006	Things That Hang from Trees	Connie Mae Wheeler
	Silent Hill	Dahlia Gillespie
	The Alibi	Dorothy
2007	Shake Hands with the Devil	Emma
	88 Minutes	Carol Lynn Johnson
2009	Walled In	Mary
	Messages Deleted	Det. Lavery
	Angel and the Badman	Temperance	Television film
2010	Transparency	Danielle
	The Way	Sarah
	Sophie	Tina Bradshaw
2011	Combat Hospital	Major Grace Pedersen	Series regular, 13 episodes
	Samuel Bleak	Roselyn Ramirez
	The Maiden Danced to Death	Lynn Court
	186 Dollars to Freedom	Consul Powers
2012	Silent Hill: Revelation	Dahlia Gillespie
	Fury	Helena
	A Dark Truth	Morgan Swinton
2015	Rehearsal	Ellen Sinclair
2015	The Hollow	Cora	Television film
2015	Dangerous Arrangement	Samantha	Television film
2015	White Lillies	Beatrice Cooper

Awards and nominations

Year	Result	Award	Category	Film
2000	Won	Seattle International Film Festival	Citation of Excellence for Ensemble Cast Performance	The Weekend
	Nominated	Genie Awards	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role	Sunshine
2003	Nominated		Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role	Between Strangers
	Won	Dubrovnik International Film Festival	Libertas Award
	Nominated	Sonoma Valley Film Festival	Imagery Honors Award
2004	Won	Method Fest	Best Actress	Emile
2005	Won	Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema	Best Actress	One Point O
2010	Won	Action on Film International Film Festival	Half-Life Award

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