Winona Ryder
Acting
- Born:
- 1971-10-29
- Place of birth:
- Winona, Minnesota, USA
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. Hi 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.
Known For
Filmography
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Haunted Mansion
Gone in the Night
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
The Plot Against America
Destination Wedding
The Pacer
Stranger Things
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
Dr. Feelgood
Experimenter
Show Me a Hero
Hot Ones
Turks & Caicos
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Homefront
Drunk History
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Frankenweenie
The Letter
The Iceman
Stay Cool
Black Swan: Metamorphosis
The Dilemma
Black Swan
When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Star Trek
Water Pills
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
The Informers
The Last Word
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Welcome
Voom Portraits
The Ten
The Darwin Awards
Sex and Death 101
Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
A Scanner Darkly
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
Declaration of Independence
Celebrities Uncensored
The Day My God Died
S1m0ne
Mr. Deeds
Zoolander
Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads
Lost Souls
Autumn in New York
Girl, Interrupted
Strangers with Candy
Celebrity
The Entertainment Biz
Alien Resurrection
The Crucible
Looking for Richard
E! True Hollywood Story
Boys
How to Make an American Quilt
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Little Women
Friends
Reality Bites
The House of the Spirits
The Age of Innocence
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Larry Sanders Show
Night on Earth
Mermaids
The Making of Edward Scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
The Simpsons
Great Balls of Fire!
Heathers
1969
Beetlejuice
Square Dance
Lucas
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars