Deborah Joy Winans

Deborah Joy Winans is an actress who portrays Charity Greenleaf on the Oprah Winfrey Network series Greenleaf.

Winans is the daughter of Carvin Winans, who is the brother of BeBe and CeCe Winans. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Wayne State University.

She was cast as her aunt CeCe Winans in the Lifetime television biographical film Whitney, directed by Angela Bassett. Winans later made a stage debut in the musical Born for This: The BeBe Winans Story.