Debra Winger Husband: Meet Arliss Howard

Arliss Howard is an American actor, screenwriter, and film director who is married to American actress and producer Debra Winger.

The couple got married in 1996, after they met on the set of the film Wilder Napalm. Their son, Gideon Babe Ruth Howard was born in 1997.

Arliss Howard began his career in films such as Full Metal Jacket, Men Don’t Leave, Ruby, and Natural Born Killers.

He won a CableACE Award for his roles in the television films Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture and The Man Who Captured Eichmann.

Arliss Howard also starred in and directed the films Big Bad Love and Dawn Anna, both of which he co-wrote with his brother, James Howard. Both films starred his wife, Debra Winger.’

Howard has a long list of stage credits, including a role in the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone in 2009.

He has appeared in several productions at Cambridge, Massachusetts’ American Repertory Theatre (ART), including Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive which he co-wrote with his wife Winger.