Debra Lynn 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. 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), "The Sheltering Sky" (1990), "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". In 2014, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Transilvania International Film Festival.