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Debra Winger
American actress (born 1955)
Debra Lynn Winger[1] (born May 16, 1955)[2] 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).
Winger's 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, she made her Broadway debut in the original production of David Mamet's play The Anarchist. She received a lifetime achievement award at the Transilvania International Film Festival in 2014,[3] and starred in the Netflix original television series The Ranch (2016–2020).
Early years
[edit]Winger was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, into a Jewish family, to Robert Winger, a meat packer, and Ruth (née Felder), an office manager.[4][5] Over the years, she told many interviewers that she volunteered on an Israeli k
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Urban Cowboy
1980 film by James Bridges
For the Broadway musical of the same name, see Urban Cowboy (musical).
Not to be confused with Midnight Cowboy.
Urban Cowboy is a 1980 American romanticWestern film directed by James Bridges. The plot concerns the love-hate relationship between Buford "Bud" Davis (John Travolta) and Sissy (Debra Winger). The film's success was credited for spurring a mainstream revival of country music.[2] Much of the action revolves around activities at Gilley's Club, a football-field-sized honky tonk in Pasadena, Texas.
Plot
[edit]Buford "Bud" Davis moves to Pasadena, Texas for an oil refinery job where his uncle, Bob Davis, works. Bud wants to earn enough money to buy land near his hometown of Spur. While staying with Bob and his family, Bud embraces the local nightlife, including Gilley's, a popular Pasadena bar and nightclub.
There, Bud meets fellow Gilly's patron, Sissy. They marry soon after and buy a mobile home, settling into a routine of working during the day and socializing at Gilley's at night. Bud enjoys riding the mechanical bull, but when Sissy wants to try, Bud forbids it.
Wes Hightower, a recently paroled convict and prison rodeo champion, is hired to operate Gilley's mechanical bull. One evening, a drunken
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