Deborah Joy Winans

Deborah Joy Imani Winans (born September 6, 1983) is an American actress and singer, and member of the musical Winans family. She starred as Charity Greenleaf-Satterlee in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf .

Winans was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Carvin and Deborah Kerr Winans.^{[1] [2]} She graduated with a BFA degree from Wayne State University.^[2] She spent a month in Moscow at the Moscow Art Theatre School for additional training, and received an MFA degree in acting from the California Institute of the Arts.^[3] In 2014, she began her acting career appearing in Fragile World, a small film. Later she was cast as her aunt CeCe Winans in the Lifetime television biographical film Whitney , directed by Angela Bassett. Winans later made her stage debut in the musical Born for This: The BeBe Winans Story.^{[4] [5] [6]}

In 2015, Winans was cast in a series regular role in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, Greenleaf .^{[7] [8]} She plays Charity Greenleaf-Satterlee, the youngest daughter in the family, who is also the Minister of Music. The series also stars Lynn Whitfield, Keith David, Merle Dandridge, and Kim Hawthorne.^[9] The series ended in 2020 after five seasons and 60 episodes. The following year, Winans played the leading role in the Lifetime Christmas film, Color of Love.^[10] She starred in the drama film Don't Waste Your Pretty alongside Keri Hilson, Jasmine Burke and Kaye Singleton,^{[11] [12]} and was lead in the Oprah Winfrey Network film, A Sisterly Christmas.^[13] In 2023, she starred in the romantic drama film The Final Say for BET+, and had a leading role in the third season of Allblk thriller anthology series, Terror Lake Drive .^[14]

Winans gave birth to her first child, son Terrence David Williams, with husband Terrence Williams in October, 2021.^[15]

• Deborah Joy Winans at IMDb

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• American television actresses
• Actresses from Detroit
• 21st-century African-American actresses
• 21st-century American actresses
• 21st-century American women singers
• Wayne State University alumni
• Musicians from Detroit
• 1983 births
• California Institute of the Arts alumni
• American stage actresses
• 21st-century American singers
• 20th-century African-American women singers
• 20th-century American women singers
• 20th-century American singers
• 21st-century African-American women singers

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