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Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder

Birthday: 1971-10-29 | Place of Birth: Winona, Minnesota, USA

Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), known professionally as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards. She is known for taking on quirky roles in her earlier films, later playing more prominent roles in the 1990s. After Ryder's film debut in Lucas (1986), she gained attention with her performance in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988). She further rose to prominence with major roles in Heathers (1989), Mermaids (1990), Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). She garnered critical acclaim and two consecutive Academy Award nominations for her portrayals of socialite May Welland in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993) and Jo March in the fifth film adaptation of Little Women (1994). Her other films during this period were Reality Bites (1994), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), The Crucible (1996), Alien Resurrection (1997), Celebrity (1998), and Girl, Interrupted (1999), which she also executive-produced. In 2002, Ryder starred in the critically panned box office hit Mr. Deeds, after which her career declined and she took a break from films. In 2009, she returned in the high-profile film Star Trek. In 2010, she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards: as the lead actress in the television film When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story and as part of the cast of Black Swan. She also reunited with Burton for Frankenweenie (2012). She has starred as Joyce Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016–present), for which she has received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations; and in 2020, she starred in the HBO drama miniseries The Plot Against America. Her relationship with Johnny Depp in the early 1990s and a 2001 arrest for shoplifting were both subjects of tabloid journalism. She has been open about her personal struggles with anxiety and depression. In 2000, Ryder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Gone in the Night

as    Kath

2022
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called

as    Self - Actress (archive footage)

2020
The Plot Against America

as    Evelyn Finkel

2020
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine

as    Lacey Groin

2018
Destination Wedding

as    Lindsay

2016
Author: The JT LeRoy Story

as    Herself

2016
Stranger Things

as    Joyce Byers

2015
Experimenter

as    Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram

2015
Show Me a Hero

as    Vinni Restiano

2014
Turks & Caicos

as    Melanie Fall

2013
The Iceman

as    Deborah Kuklinski

2013
Homefront

as    Sheryl Marie Mott

2012
Frankenweenie

as    Elsa Van Helsing (voice)

2012
The Letter

as    Martine Jamison

2012
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

as    Self

2011
The Dilemma

as    Geneva Brannen

2010
Black Swan

as    Beth Macintyre / The Dying Swan

2009
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

as    Sandra Dulles

2008
The Last Word

as    Charlotte Morris

2008
The Informers

as    Cheryl Moore

2007
Sex and Death 101

as    Death Nell / Gillian De Raisx (#101)

2007
Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton

as    Herself

2007
The Ten

as    Kelly La Fonda

2006
A Scanner Darkly

as    Donna Hawthorne

2006
The Darwin Awards

as    Siri Taylor

2004
2002
Mr. Deeds

as    Babe Bennett