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Debra Ansa
Debra is a feminine given name. Debra may refer to: People * Debra Adelaide (born 1958), Australian writer * Debra Allbery (born 1957), American poet * Debra R. Anderson (1949-2022), American politician * Debra Austin (dancer), Debra Austin (born 1955), American ballerina * Debra Berger (born 1957), American actress, artist and designer * Debra Bermingham, American artist * Debra Bloomfield (born 1952), American photographer * Debra Bowen (born 1955), American politician, Secretary of State of California from 2007 to 2015 * Alton Coleman, Debra Brown, serial killer * Debra M. Brown (born 1963), American judge * Debra Burlingame (born 1954), American lawyer and political activist * Debra Byrd, American vocalist * Debra Byrne (born 1957), Australian pop singer, actress and entertainer * Debra Cafaro (born 1957) American business executive * Debra Chasnoff (1957 – 2017), documentary filmmaker and activist * Debra Christofferson, American actress of film and TV * Debra Crew (born 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Adelaide
Debra Adelaide (born 1958) is an Australian novelist, writer and academic. She teaches creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney. Biography Adelaide was born in Sydney and grew up in the Sutherland Shire. A contemporary of writers Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey, she attended Gymea High School and then via a teacher's scholarship, she completed a BA (Honours) and MA (Honours) in English literature at the University of Sydney. She then completed a PhD in Australian women’s literature in 1991, and in the process completed her first book, a bibliography of Australian women's literature. While studying, Debra Adelaide worked as a university tutor and research assistant, and afterwards became a freelance editor, author and book reviewer. She commenced writing fiction in the early 1990s and her first novel, ''The Hotel Albatross'', was published in 1995. She was married until 2003 and has three children, Joe (b 1989), Ellen (b 1992) and Callan (b 1997). She is curre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Daley
Debra Daley is a New Zealand author. Daley was born in New Zealand and is of Irish heritage. She grew up in the west of Auckland and graduated from the University of Auckland with an MA in English Literature. She currently lives in the Bay of Plenty. Daley has worked as journalist, in public health, and as a screenwriter, working on the television dramas ''Universal Drive'', ''The Shadow Trader'', ''At the End of the Day'', ''Pristine''. Daley has published three novels, ''The Revelations of Carey Ravine'' (2016), ''Turning the Stones'' (2014), and ''The Strange Letter Z'' (1996). ''The Revelations of Carey Ravine'' and ''Turning the Stones'' are both historical fiction, set in 18th-century England and Ireland. Her first novel, ''The Strange Letter'' Z, takes place in Mexico and New Zealand in the 1980s. She has also published a number of short stories. In 1992 she won the Lilian Ida Smith Award. She received the Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellowship Frank Sargeson () (born Norr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Gauthier
Debra Gauthier is a former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department lieutenant who chronicled in a book her 21-year police career as a woman on a predominantly male police force. Education Gauthier graduated with a bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1979 and a master's in public administration in 1990 from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Career She joined the Las Vegas police force in 1980 as the first woman in the department to be placed on street patrol. In 1986, she arrested Mafia lieutenant Herbert Blitzstein during a multi-agency task force called “Operation Chutzpah.” She implemented the department's first bicycle patrol unit, which she oversaw as a sergeant. Afterward, in 1994, she was promoted to lieutenant. She appeared as a cast member on Fox's TV series '' Cops'' while still a bike patrol sergeant. Gauthier claimed discrimination against the department while working in what she claimed was a male-dominated environment under unsafe conditions. After she was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Fordham
Debra Fordham is an American television producer and writer. She is best known for her work on the sitcom ''Scrubs''. Early life Fordham is a graduate of Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia, where she studied theatre under the direction of Dr. Randy Wheeler. In early 2008 she was in Valdosta again to see VSU's production of her play ''Holler Me Home'', centered on the lives of a family of Okefenokee swampers. ''Holler Me Home'' was accepted into WaterTower Theatre's 2008 Out of the Loop Festival in Addison, Texas. Career She wrote sixteen episodes of ''Scrubs'', two of which, "My Life in Four Cameras" and " My Musical", are considered to be among the best ''Scrubs'' episodes. Fordham also appears briefly at the end of the ''Scrubs'' episode "My Full Moon", where she plays a doctor who gets over-excited at a cup of coffee and performs an action described by Dr. Todd Quinlan as the "low arm pump". Fordham's other television credits include ''Army Wives'' and '' Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Fox
Debra Fox is the founder and CEO of Fox Learning Systems. She was previously a television reporter and anchor with WTAE-TV Pittsburgh (1976–1986). WTAE television career Fox was named "Best Pittsburgh Newscaster" seven years in a row by the ''Pittsburgh Tribune Review''. During her ten-year television career, she was able to interview many prominent national figures such as Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter (during the Iran Hostage Crisis), Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Governor Michael Dukakis, Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Joe Biden, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Walter Mondale and Gary Hart. She also covered the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. After having her first child in 1986, she retired from WTAE. ''The Golden Land'' In 1990, Fox took over for Wolf Blitzer in PBS's series "The Golden Land". This was a documentary about the history of Israel in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Fox Learning Systems In 1997, Debra founded Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Jo Fondren
Debra Jo Fondren (born February 5, 1955) is an American model and actress. She was ''Playboy'' magazine's Playmate of the Month for the September 1977 issue and Playmate of the Year for 1978. Her pictorial was photographed by Robert Scott Hooper. Career Fondren, who lived in Lumberton, Texas, and was working as a waitress at Gallagher's in Beaumont, Texas, was discovered on a visit to Las Vegas by photographer Robert Scott Hooper, who also photographed her centerfold, featuring her very long, almost knee-length blonde hair. Fondren had guest-starring roles on television series such as '' Mork & Mindy'' and ''Fantasy Island''. She also appeared in movies such as ''Spit Fire''. In 2007, she returned home to the Lumberton/Silsbee, Texas, area, having stated she had enough of the California lifestyle and now operates a beauty school in her home area. TV appearances *'' Mork & Mindy'' *'' Knots Landing'' *''Fantasy Island ''Fantasy Island'' is an American fantasy drama televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |