Debra Lynn Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an American actress and producer. She has been nominated three times for the
Academy Award for Best Actress; for
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982),
Terms of Endearment (1983), and
Shadowlands (1993). She 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 film roles include
Urban Cowboy (1980),
Legal Eagles (1986),
Black Widow (1987),
Betrayed (1988),
Forget Paris (1995), and
Rachel Getting Married (2008). In 2012, she made her
Broadway debut in the original production of the
David Mamet play
The Anarchist.