Winona Ryder

Acting · 5.1 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: October 29, 1971
From: 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. 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.

Works

78 films

Star Trek

20097.4

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

20246.9

Black Swan

20107.7

Alien Resurrection

19976.2

Edward Scissorhands

19907.7

Beetlejuice

19887.4

Bram Stoker's Dracula

19927.4

Mr. Deeds

20025.9

Homefront

20136.9

Girl, Interrupted

19997.6

Zoolander

20016.2

Little Women

19947.3

Haunted Mansion

20236.4

Frankenweenie

20127.0

Heathers

19897.3

The Iceman

20126.6

The Age of Innocence

19937.0

A Scanner Darkly

20066.8

Reality Bites

19946.5

Mermaids

19906.7

The Dilemma

20115.3

Celebrity

19986.0

The House of the Spirits

19936.9

Autumn in New York

20006.1

Lost Souls

20005.1

One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5

20267.3

Stay Cool

20114.8

Night on Earth

19917.5

Boys

19965.4

S1m0ne

20026.0

The Crucible

19966.6

The Informers

20084.7

Sex and Death 101

20076.1

Destination Wedding

20185.8

Lucas

19866.7

Experimenter

20156.5

How to Make an American Quilt

19956.4

The Ten

20074.8

Looking for Richard

19966.8

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'

20078.0

Great Balls of Fire!

19896.3

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood

200510.0

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

20095.8

Gone in the Night

20225.5

Turks & Caicos

20146.3

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

19906.2

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony

20214.5

The Darwin Awards

20075.5

Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine

20205.4

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

20045.8

Author: The JT LeRoy Story

20166.6

The Letter

20124.5

Black Swan: Metamorphosis

20117.7

The Making of Edward Scissorhands

19908.0

Declaration of Independence

20037.7

Linklater: St. Richard of Austin

2004

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment

20035.0

1969

19885.6

The Last Word

20085.8

Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow

20257.4

One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection

20036.3

When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story

20106.0

Square Dance

19874.7

Welcome

20076.0

Voom Portraits

200710.0

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called

20227.7

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'

19937.0

Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton

20077.0

Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads

200110.0

Water Pills

2009

One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'

20068.2

Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin

20047.8

Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies

19926.4

The Day My God Died

20038.3

Scorsese's Women

2014

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease

20122.0

The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales

20067.0

The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon

20222.0