Deborah Joy Winans is an actress and singer , best known for "Greenleaf", "Fragile World" and "Fighting the Battle" and is a member of musical Winans family. She is currently starring as Charity Greenleaf-Satterlee in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series, "Greenleaf". Winans started acting playing her aunt CeCe Winans in the made for TV movie “Whitney,” directed by Angela Basset. Her role as Charity Greenleaf has her playing a daughter of Bishop James Greenleaf who founded a powerful church filled with secrets, sex and scandal.