Did you know that the voice of ET was 3-time Oscar nominee, Debra Winger? Winger’s voice was electronically altered and used as the alien in Stephen Spielberg’s 1982 box office hit, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. The majority of the speech was provided by raspy-voiced Pat Welsh, a chain smoking elderly women from Marin, California. Spielberg asked Debra Winger, however, to visit the studio and lend her voice to the lovable alien for a few key parts, one of which was the memorable “ET phone home” phrase.
