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Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder

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Born October 29, 1971, 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 (2016–2025), 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.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (33)
  • 2026One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 — Self (uncredited)
  • 2025Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow — Self - 'Stranger Things' Joyce Byers (archive footage)
  • Tim Burton: Life in the Line — Self
  • 2022The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon — Self
  • 2022Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called — Self - Actress (archive footage)
  • 2021Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony — Self (archive footage)
  • 2016Author: The JT LeRoy Story — Herself
  • Dr. Feelgood — Self (archive footage)
  • Hot Ones — Self
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
  • 2012Ben Lee: Catch My Disease — Self
  • Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
  • 2007Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton — Self
  • 2007The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' — Self (archive footage)
  • 2007Voom Portraits — Self
  • 2006One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly' — Self / Donna
  • 2006The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales — Self
  • 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
  • 2004Linklater: St. Richard of Austin — Self
  • 2003101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment — Self (archive footage)
  • Celebrities Uncensored — Self
  • 2003Declaration of Independence — Self
  • 2003One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection — Self
  • The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
  • 2001Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads — Self
  • The Entertainment Biz — Self
  • E! True Hollywood Story — Self
  • 1996Looking for Richard — Self / Lady Anne
  • 1993Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' — Self
  • 1992Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies — Self
  • 1990The Making of Edward Scissorhands — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self (uncredited)
  • The Oscars — Self
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