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Debra Hill

Debra Hill (1950-2005) was an American film producer and screenwriter, born in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Best known as John Carpenter's collaborator on Halloween (1978), co-written and produced by her for under $400,000, and later producer of Clue and The Fisher King; the PGA's Debra Hill Fellowship honors her.

Debra Jo Rupp

Debra Jo Rupp (born 1951) is an American actress known as Kitty Forman on That '70s Show (1998–2006) and That '90s Show, Mrs. Hart in WandaVision, and her Off-Broadway stage work.

Debra Messing

Debra Messing (born 1968, Brooklyn) is an American actress known for Grace Adler on NBC's Will & Grace (1998–2006, 2017–2020), Emmy winner 2003, also The Starter Wife, Smash, and The Mysteries of Laura.

Debra Monk

Debra Monk (born 1949, Middletown, Ohio) is an American actress, singer, and writer, Tony winner for Redwood Curtain, Emmy winner for NYPD Blue, co-author of Pump Boys and Dinettes, and known for New Amsterdam and The Gilded Age.

Debra Morgan

Debra Morgan (Deb), fictional Miami Metro PD detective in Showtime's Dexter (2006-2013), played by Jennifer Carpenter; Dexter Morgan's adoptive sister who discovers his secret, kills LaGuerta, and dies in the series finale.

Debra Paget

Debra Paget (Debralee Griffin, born 1933) is an American actress of 1948–1963, star of The Ten Commandments, Broken Arrow, Fritz Lang's Indian films, and Elvis Presley's first film Love Me Tender; retired at about thirty.

Debra Ponzek

Debra Ponzek is an American chef from Morristown, New Jersey, the first female chef to win a New York Times three-star review (at Montrachet), and co-founder with Greg Addonizio of Connecticut's Aux Délices gourmet shops.

Debra Stephenson

Debra Stephenson (born 1972, Hull) is an English actress, comedian, singer and impressionist, known for Shell Dockley in Bad Girls, Frankie Baldwin in Coronation Street, The Impressions Show with Jon Culshaw, Newzoids, Dead Ringers, and voicing the 2020 deepfake Queen's Alternative Christmas Message.

Debra Wilson

Debra Wilson (born 1962), American actress and MADtv original cast member, later one of gaming's most prolific voice actors, known as Cere Junda in Star Wars Jedi, Savathûn in Destiny 2, and Amanda Waller.

Debra Winger

Debra Winger is an American actress known for strong-willed women' portrayals in the 1980s, receiving Academy Award nominations and returning to feature films in 2001.

Debrah Farentino

Debrah Farentino, born Deborah Mullowney, is an American actress and producer who played Devon Adair on NBC's Earth 2 and Beverly Barlowe on Syfy's Eureka, after starting on Capitol.

Debralee Scott

Debralee Scott (1953–2005), American actress of 1970s television comedy; played Cathy Shumway on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Hotsy Totsy on Welcome Back, Kotter; also American Graffiti and Police Academy films.

Debre Berhan Selassie

Debre Berhan Selassie, "Mount of the Light of the Trinity," is an Ethiopian Orthodox church northeast of Gondar, famed for its murals and a ceiling of winged cherub heads.

Debris (TV series)

Debris (NBC, 2021) is a science fiction drama created by Fringe showrunner J.H. Wyman, starring Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele as CIA and MI6 agents recovering alien spacecraft wreckage; cancelled after one 13-episode season.

Debt Collectors (film)

Debt Collectors (2020) is an American action sequel directed by Jesse V. Johnson, starring Scott Adkins and Louis Mandylor as collectors French and Sue, released May 29, 2020 by Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Debt of Honor

Debt of Honor (日米開戦) is Tom Clancy's 1994 techno-thriller, the seventh Jack Ryan novel, in which Japanese industrialist Razio Yamata wages economic and military war on the US; its Capitol jetliner crash predates 9/11.

Debut (Björk album)

Debut (1993) is Björk Guðmundsdóttir's first international solo album, produced mainly with Nellee Hooper on One Little Indian, fusing house, jazz and electronic pop; it went platinum in the UK before Christmas 1993 and was followed by Post (1995).

Debut (song)

"Debut" (2024) is the first single by global girl group KATSEYE, released June 28, 2024 on HYBE x Geffen; written and produced by Ryan Tedder, Tyler Spry, and Grant Boutin with Omer Fedi, ahead of the EP SIS (Soft Is Strong).

Debut novel

Debut novel: the first novel a writer publishes, also called a first novel; a publishing event marking a new novelist's arrival, shaped by advances, BookScan data, agents, and debut-only prizes such as the PEN/Hemingway Award.

Debut Prize

The Debut Prize (премия «Дебют») was an independent Russian literary award for young authors writing in Russian, awarded from 2000 to 2015 and financed by the Pokolenie Foundation of Andrei Skoch.

Debut showcase

A debut showcase (데뷔 쇼케이스) is a K-pop event combining a press conference and first live performance for a new group on or near its launch day.

Debut's Plan

Debut's Plan (데뷔스 플랜) was Starship Entertainment's 2025 YouTube boy group survival show; 33 trainees, 21 finalists, eight-member debut lineup forming the group IDID, which debuted September 15, 2025.

Deca-Dence

Deca-Dence (デカダンス) is a 2020 original sci-fi action TV anime by studio NUT, directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa and written by Hiroshi Seko; 12 episodes aired July–September 2020 about humans in a mobile fortress fighting the Gadoll.

Décadas da Ásia

Décadas da Ásia (Decades of Asia) is a four-volume history of the Portuguese empire in Asia by João de Barros, published between 1552 and 1615.

Decade (Neil Young album)

Decade is Neil Young's triple-LP compilation album, released October 28, 1977 on Reprise: 35 tracks from 1966–1976 spanning Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, Crazy Horse, and the Stills-Young Band, with Young's famous 'middle of the road' liner notes.

Decadence Colorado

Decadence Colorado, also known as Decadence NYE, is an annual two-night New Year's Eve EDM festival held December 30–31 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

Decadence New Year's Eve

Decadence New Year's Eve is a two-city American EDM festival held every December 30 and 31: Decadence Colorado in Denver and Decadence Arizona at Phoenix Raceway.

Decadent movement

Decadent movement, also called Decadence: a late 19th-century Franco-British literary and artistic movement favoring beauty, artifice, and transgressive themes over morality, active in France from about 1870 to the Dreyfus Affair and in Britain in the 1890s.

Decades (Motionless in White album)

Decades is the seventh studio album by American metalcore band Motionless in White, released July 17, 2026 on Roadrunner. It marks the band's 20th anniversary, features Corey Taylor, Skylar Grey, and Dark Divine, and yielded the chart-topping single Afraid of the Dark.

Decaffeination

Decaffeination removes most caffeine from green coffee beans using water, ethyl acetate, dichloromethane, or supercritical CO2. Decaf still holds 2-15 mg caffeine per cup; Roselius patented the first process in 1905, Zosel the CO2 method in 1970.