Winona Ryder
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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 47.001 |
Birthday | 1971-10-29 |
Place of Birth | Winona, Minnesota, USA |
Also Known As | Wynona Ryder, Winona Laura Horowitz, ウィノナ ライダー, ウィノナ・ローラ・ホロウィッツ, |
1990
Edward Scissorhands
7.7/12918
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Night on Earth
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The House of the Spirits
6.9/682
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Gone in the Night
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A Scanner Darkly
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Autumn in New York
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Girl, Interrupted
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1989
Heathers
7.3/1684
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2002
Mr. Deeds
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2000
Lost Souls
5/184
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1988
Beetlejuice
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1994
Reality Bites
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The Age of Innocence
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Mermaids
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1996
The Crucible
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2009
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Great Balls of Fire!
6.3/313
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1997
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1990
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6.2/100
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1995
How to Make an American Quilt
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1998
Celebrity
6/467
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2002
S1m0ne
5.957/900
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Little Women
7.288/1220
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2001
Zoolander
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Lucas
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2007
The Ten
4.847/192
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7.43/9844
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Sex and Death 101
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6.8/138
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Boys
5.4/44
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The Dilemma
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Frankenweenie
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Black Swan
7.7/14454
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The Informers
4.8/225
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The Last Word
5.84/67
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2006
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The Iceman
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5.9/21
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One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
6.8/12
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The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon
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Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
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Square Dance
4.706/17
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The Letter
4.577/26
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Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
7.6/9
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2007
Welcome
6.4/9
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2013
Homefront
6.945/3488
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2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
4.3/23
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Turks & Caicos
6.3/141
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
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2004
Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
7.7/3
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Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads
10/1
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Haunted Mansion
6.5/1051
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Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2/1
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2015
Experimenter
6.5/453
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Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
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Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
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2003
Declaration of Independence
10/2
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2016
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
6.5/28
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Destination Wedding
5.8/748
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1993
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
5.5/2
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Black Swan: Metamorphosis
7.571/21
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Voom Portraits
10/1
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2003
The Day My God Died
8/1
Filmed in Nepal and India this documentary presents the stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex slave trade. The film...
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2006
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
8.2/5
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1990
The Making of Edward Scissorhands
7.891/32
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1992
Bram Stoker's Dracula
7.449/5118
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2020
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
5.566/38
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The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
8/6
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