Winona Ryder
Acting
Born 1971-10-29
Winona, Minnesota, USA
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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 (2016–2025), 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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The Simpsons
Stranger Things
Friends
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Saturday Night Live
Hot Ones
The Larry Sanders Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Star Trek
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Black Swan
Alien Resurrection
The Oscars
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Drunk History
Edward Scissorhands
Beetlejuice
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Stranger Things: Tales from '85
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Homefront
Little Women
Girl, Interrupted
Mr. Deeds
Zoolander
Strangers with Candy
Haunted Mansion
Frankenweenie
Heathers
The Plot Against America
The Age of Innocence
Reality Bites
The Dilemma
The Entertainment Biz
Show Me a Hero
The Iceman
The House of the Spirits
Celebrity
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
A Scanner Darkly
The Crucible
Mermaids
Night on Earth
Sex and Death 101
Stay Cool
Lost Souls
The Informers
Autumn in New York
Destination Wedding
Boys
S1m0ne
How to Make an American Quilt
Lucas
The Ten
Looking for Richard
E! True Hollywood Story
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
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