Deborah Lynn Foreman is an American

United States

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 actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role in the 1983 movie Valley Girl

Valley Girl (film)

Valley Girl is a 1983 romantic comedy film, starring Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Cameron Dye, and Joyce Heiser. The film was the directorial debut of Martha Coolidge, and was the first film in which Nicolas Coppola was billed as Nicolas Cage.The American release of Valley Girl...

, as "Julie Richman" acting opposite Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage

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 as "Randy".
Foreman was born in, California, the daughter of Lynette and Clyde Foreman, a Marine Corps

Marine corps

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 pilot

Aviator

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. She was raised in Arizona

Arizona

Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

 and Texas

Texas

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. When she was thirteen, her parents enrolled her at the Barbizon School of Modeling in Houston to help her overcome shyness, where she received a trophy after completing the courses.