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• Ein Offizier und ein Gentleman Original Vintage Film Kino Türkisches Poster von 1982
• Debra Winger: Why Hollywood Won't Cast Her Anymore
• Urban Cowboy Bud & Sissy Texas Barn Background Inspired 20 ounce Sublimation Tumbler Design - DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLY!
• Urban Cowboy
• She's been in lots of movies … that not many people saw
• Hollywood couldn't deal with her realness

Winger subsequently starred in the films Radio, Eulogy, and Sometimes in April, and received positive reviews for portraying Anne Hathaway's estranged mother in Rachel Getting Married. When MacLaine nabbed the Best Actress Oscar instead of fellow nominee Winger in 1984 and famously shouted, "I deserve this!," she managed to address her co-star as "dear Debra" despite the fact there was no love lost between them. Despite the sudden news, Winger’s death has not prevented her from pondering her own life.

At age 18, after returning to the U.S., she was involved in a car accident and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage; as a result, she was left partially paralyzed and blind for 10 months, initially being told that she would never see again. With time on her hands to think about her life, she decided that, if she recovered, she would move to California and become an actress. There's an oft-repeated maxim that there are no roles in Hollywood for women over 40 because Hollywood just apparently isn't interested in depicting the stories of mature women ... Or putting women who aren't 22 anymore up on the screen. Instead, the entertainment industry caters to what it thinks a target audience of young men want to see. When she was 14, her father had installed a burglar alarm for the celebrated director George Cukor and told him that his daughter wanted to be a actress.

Ein Offizier und ein Gentleman Original Vintage Film Kino Türkisches Poster von 1982

Cukor looked at Winger and told her, "That voice, and you got no walk and you got no class!" She suspected that her father might have put Cukor up to this, in order to discourage her from pursuing a acting career. Cukor was still alive when Winger became a star with Urban Cowboy but he didn't get a chance to know about her first Oscar nomination as Best Actress for Ein Offizier und Gentleman , since the nomination was announced a few days after he died. Children2Debra Lynn Winger is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman , Terms of Endearment , and Shadowlands , 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 . Her other film roles include Urban Cowboy , Legal Eagles , Black Widow , Betrayed , The Sheltering Sky , Forget Paris , and Rachel Getting Married .

She was also considered for Turner's role in Heißblütig - Kaltblütig . Had a romance with then-Governor of Nebraska Bob Kerrey during the filming of Zeit der Zärtlichkeit . From 2016 to 2020, Winger starred opposite Sam Elliott and Ashton Kutcher in the Netflix multi-cam comedy The Ranch.

Debra Winger: Why Hollywood Won't Cast Her Anymore

But try as Winger did to stop playing make-believe for a living, she still felt the call of acting, and, since she was in the northeast, she took to the stage. With that spirit in mind, she paused her film acting career for about six years and focused on where the challenges really lay. "My life challenged me more than the parts, so I dove into it fully," she said. Whether it's movie roles or life itself Winger says she's "interested in what scares ." So if you come across the rare TV series or movie with Debra Winger in it, tread carefully — if it scares her, it might scare you.

[on Ein Offizier und Gentleman ] I did not have a great time on that set. I'm sorry, may he rest in peace, but he'd go to dailies and bring me a water pill. "Is she fuckable? Do I want to fuck her? Will I get to fuck her?" That's all it's about in that world. It wasn't about finding a guy I wanted to fuck.

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More than a decade later, Winger was instrumental in getting a documentary calledBel Borba Aquimade. Winger produced the mixed-media film (animation, time-lapse photography) about Bel Borba, a legendary street artist in Salvador, Brazil, who creates huge public murals. While Winger got out of Hollywood, she didn't completely abandon acting in film and television shows, but she has often refocused her artistic efforts on the other side of the movie-making process. Since the turn of the century, she's produced two feature-length films.

"I'd already done that or I'd already felt that," she shared. There probably wasn't a more reliable and familiar actress in the '80s. After making a splash as Sissy in the 1980 mega-hit Urban Cowboywith John Travolta, Winger romanced Richard Gere in 1982'sAn Officer and a Gentlemanand tore filmgoers' hearts out in the Best Picture-winning 1983 flickTerms of Endearment. For all three of those early successes, Winger received Golden Globe nominations, and Academy Award nominations for the latter two. I used to beg for screen tests, man, I was the only actress in Hollywood that used to say please test me, don't make me read in a room, just send me out there, you know, in front of the camera.

Urban Cowboy

From 1986 to 1990, Winger was married to actor Timothy Hutton, with whom she had a son, Noah Hutton, a documentary filmmaker born in 1987. During a bicycle accident, Winger injured her back, and was forced to quit acting. She had been cast in A League of Their Own, but was replaced by Geena Davis, and her role in Peggy Sue Got Married went to Kathleen Turner. In addition, Winger refused to work with Madonna. In the last years, her acting career had stalled, and she has only made occasional movie appearances. She landed her first starring role in 1980 when she appeared on the film Thank God It’s Friday and later followed by Urban Cowboy where she appeared alongside John Travolta.

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Worse, Winger later miscarried after getting pregnant on her wedding night. She got pregnant again and gave birth to their son, Noah Hutton, in 1987, but just a year later, they separated and divorced two years later. During their short marriage, they appeared together in two films (Made in Heaven and Verraten ) that flopped at the box office, as well as a "Life" magazine cover.

Winger found herself in a car accident that nearly cost her everything. She was left partially paralyzed and blind for almost a year. Medical officials did not expect her to recover and warned Winger she would never regain her vision. The cause of this debilitation can be traced to the cerebral hemorrhage Winger suffered after the crash. Her recovery, however, gave Winger a very long time to reflect and contemplate life as a whole.

In 1995, she appeared in London, Washington, and New York with both the London Symphony and the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, performing his composition based on the life of Anne Frank. She was given the choice of the two roles in Die schwarze Witwe ; she chose the role of the FBI agent, because she didn't understand the motivation as to why the Black Widow kills, so the title role went to Theresa Russell. At first, she was excited about winning the role of Wonder Girl on the television series Wonder Woman but quickly became disillusioned and spent all her salary from the series to hire an attorney to get her out of her contract. Exaggerated reports about her also concern her biography. For example, at one of the Internet sites devoted to her it is stated that she spent part of her youth on a kibbutz in Israel and even served for several months in the Israel Defense Forces. Indeed, when she was 17, she spent four months at Kibbutz Beit Zera, but she never enlisted in the IDF.