Debra Winger

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Mary Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress who rose to prominence in the late 1970s and 1980s through intense dramatic roles portraying resilient, multifaceted women., earning critical praise for her authentic depiction of a working-class wife. and Terms of Endearment (1983), receiving consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, along with BAFTA and Golden Globe nods., solidifying her reputation for emotionally raw portrayals.( Her career trajectory included selective project choices, turning down roles in films like Pretty Woman and Thelma & Louise, and a self-imposed hiatus in the mid-1990s to prioritize family, leading to sporadic returns in independent films and television.( Winger's professional demeanor, marked by demands for script fidelity and on-set authenticity, resulted in reported tensions with directors and co-stars, such as Shirley MacLaine during Terms of Endearment production.(

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Mary Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Terms of Endearment (1983), and Shadowlands (1993), each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winger won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment, and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman (1993).

Her other films include Urban Cowboy (1980), Legal Eagles (1986), Black Widow (1987), Betrayed (1988), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Forget Paris (1995), and Rachel Getting Married (2008). In 2012, Winger made her Broadway debut in the original production of David Mamet's play The Anarchist. Winger starred in the Netflix original television series The Ranch from 2016 to 2020.