Winona Ryder
Date of birth: 1971-10-29
Place of birth: Winona, Minnesota, USA
Known for: Acting
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, وینونا رایدر
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.
Movie Credits
Edward Scissorhands
1990-12-07
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Night on Earth
1991-12-12
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
The House of the Spirits
1993-10-21
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Gone in the Night
2022-07-15
Upon arriving at a remote cabin in the redwoods, Kath and her boyfriend find a mysterious younger co
A Scanner Darkly
2006-07-07
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins
Autumn in New York
2000-08-11
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte
Girl, Interrupted
1999-12-21
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia
Heathers
1989-03-31
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches
Mr. Deeds
2002-06-28
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased
Lost Souls
2000-10-13
A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To
Reality Bites
1994-02-18
A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about li
Beetlejuice
1988-03-30
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New Y
The Age of Innocence
1993-09-10
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her
Mermaids
1990-12-14
Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town an
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009-07-07
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in
The Crucible
1996-11-27
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 w
Stay Cool
2011-09-16
A successful author is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to de
Great Balls of Fire!
1989-06-30
The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of th
Alien Resurrection
1997-11-12
Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultima
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1990-10-12
Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her
How to Make an American Quilt
1995-10-06
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheatin
Celebrity
1998-09-07
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Rob
S1m0ne
2002-08-23
The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walk
Little Women
1994-12-21
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Zoolander
2001-09-28
Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when h
Lucas
1986-03-28
A brilliant but socially inept 14-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two be
The Ten
2007-08-03
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
Star Trek
2009-05-06
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill
Sex and Death 101
2007-06-15
A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with an
Looking for Richard
1996-10-11
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world t
Boys
1996-05-10
Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr.
The Dilemma
2011-01-13
Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a pres
Frankenweenie
2012-10-04
When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way
Black Swan
2010-12-03
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of T
The Informers
2008-11-05
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the liv
The Last Word
2008-04-20
An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departe
The Darwin Awards
2007-06-25
After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows los
1969
1988-08-18
Two rebellious youths, Ralph and Scott, find themselves struggling with adulthood as the Vietnam War
The Iceman
2012-09-01
The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.
When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
2010-04-25
Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024-09-04
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still hau
One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
2003-12-02
The making of Alien Resurrection (1997) is covered in this feature-length documentary, created for t
The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon
2022-03-16
On a bicycle trip across the country, a young Neill Kirby McMillan Jr. experiences The Mojo Revelati
Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
2007-04-27
From Japan to America, the LV sign dominates the fashion scene. And, one man alone designs the Louis
Square Dance
1987-03-01
An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort
The Letter
2012-09-06
A playwright begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022-04-09
A portrait of the actress Winona Ryder, the great muse of nineties cinema, who, although she has had
Welcome
2007-10-05
A family moves into their new home, only to discover it's haunted.
Homefront
2013-11-12
Phil Broker, a retired DEA agent, leads a quiet life with his daughter Maddy, until a school bullyin
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021-03-26
Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he g
Turks & Caicos
2014-03-20
The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last s
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
2004-09-15
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled m
Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
2004-01-20
Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads
2001-01-01
Documenting the making of Heathers with interviews from cast and crew members.
Haunted Mansion
2023-07-26
A woman and her son enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of su
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012-11-06
Charming, intelligent and iconoclastic, Ben Lee is an Australian singer-songwriter whose creative gr
Experimenter
2015-10-16
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005-03-01
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
1992-01-01
Short documentary on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" (1992).
Declaration of Independence
2003-06-10
Famous actors and actresses read the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
2016-01-22
New York magazine’s October 2005 issue sent shockwaves through the literary world when it unmasked “
Destination Wedding
2018-08-02
Frank and Lindsay—two emotionally-broken strangers—meet on the way to a destination wedding. Over th
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993-09-01
A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese's 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's
Black Swan: Metamorphosis
2011-03-29
Documentary chronicling the making of Darren Aronofsky's Academy Award-winning film 'Black Swan (201
Voom Portraits
2007-10-01
Iconic artist and theater director Robert Wilson has created a series of video portraits of celebrit
The Day My God Died
2003-04-19
Filmed in Nepal and India this documentary presents the stories of young girls whose lives have been
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006-12-19
A unique documentary that interlaces archival interviews with author Philip K. Dick with chats featu
The Making of Edward Scissorhands
1990-12-14
Behind the scenes of Edward Scissorhands
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992-11-13
Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula travels to Victorian London, where he becomes obsessed with Mina
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020-10-27
Comedian and Trump lip-synching sensation Sarah Cooper tackles politics, race and other light topics
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007-10-08
Director Francis Ford Coppola, cast and production crew explore the making of the 1992 masterpiece.
Water Pills
2009-04-01
A pill popping, emotionally off balance stage mother tries to break her daughter into the film and t
Scorsese's Women
2014-09-10
Five amazing actresses who have starred in Martin Scorsese's films come together in imaginary cinema
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006-12-19
A behind-the scenes look at the grueling one-year process of transferring the filmed images into the
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
2004-12-13
Ben Lewis spends time with Richard Linklater, the highly-respected director of 'Slacker', 'School of
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
2003-07-18
From Disturbing Discoveries to Astonishing Arressts, and Tragic Endings. In this tv-special, E! coun
Untitled Beetlejuice 3
The third installment in the Beetlejuice franchise. Plot TBA.
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2024-06-06
Features never-before-seen footage, interviews and artwork, spanning Burton's early career at Disney
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
2026-01-11
An inside look at the years of effort and craft that went into the final installment of the Duffer B