Winona Ryder
Biography
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.
Known For
Kim
Edward Scissorhands
Corky
Night on Earth
Blanca Trueba
The House of the Spirits
Kath
Gone in the Night
Donna Hawthorne
A Scanner Darkly
Charlotte Fielding
Autumn in New York
Susanna
Girl, Interrupted
Veronica Sawyer
Heathers
Babe Bennett
Mr. Deeds
Maya Larkin
Lost Souls
Lydia
Beetlejuice
Lelaina Pierce
Reality Bites
May Welland
The Age of Innocence
Charlotte Flax
Mermaids
Sandra Dulles
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Abigail Williams
The Crucible
Scarlet Smith
Stay Cool
Myra Gale Brown
Great Balls of Fire!
Call
Alien Resurrection
Dinky Bossetti
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
Finn Dodd
How to Make an American Quilt
Nola
Celebrity
Nicola Anders
S1m0ne
Jo March
Little Women
Winona Ryder (uncredited)
Zoolander
Rina
Lucas
Kelly La Fonda
The Ten
Amanda Grayson
Star Trek
Death Nell / Gillian De Raisx (#101)
Sex and Death 101
Self / Lady Anne
Looking for Richard
Patty Vare
Boys
Geneva Brannen
The Dilemma
Elsa Van Helsing (voice)
Frankenweenie
Beth Macintyre / The Dying Swan
Black Swan
Cheryl Moore
The Informers
Charlotte Morris
The Last Word
Siri Taylor
The Darwin Awards
Beth Carr
1969
Deborah Kuklinski
The Iceman
Lois Wilson
When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
Lydia
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Self
One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
Self
The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon
Herself
Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
Gemma
Square Dance
Martine Jamison
The Letter
Self - Actress (archive footage)
Winona Ryder - Die Geister, die sie rief
Cynthia
Welcome
Sheryl Marie Mott
Homefront
Self (archive footage)
Hannibal Hopkins et Sir Anthony
Melanie Fall
Turks & Caicos
Psychologist
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
Self
Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads
Pat (uncredited)
Haunted Mansion
Self
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
Experimenter
Self
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Self
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Self
Declaration of Independence
Herself
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
Lindsay
Destination Wedding
Self
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Self
Black Swan: Metamorphosis
Self
Voom Portraits
Narrator (voice)
The Day My God Died
Self / Donna
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
Self
The Making of Edward Scissorhands
Mina Murray / Elisabeta
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Lacey Groin
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
Self (archive footage)
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Carrie
Water Pills
Mask
Scorsese's Women
Self
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
Self
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
75
Gender
Female
Birthday
1971-10-29
Place of Birth
Winona, Minnesota, USA
Also Known As
Wynona Ryder