9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
Johnny Depp and actress Winona Ryder attend the 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 19, 1991 at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
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1994
9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
Winona Ryder attends the 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 22, 1994 at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
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1997
9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
Winona Ryder and friend Kevin Haley attend the 25th Annual American Film Institute (AFI) Lifetime Achievement Award Salute to Martin Scorsese on February 20, 1997 at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
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2001
9355 Burton Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
Winona Ryder is seen through a tinted glass as she arrives at the Beverly Hills Superior Court for her trial on charges of alleged grand theft, commercial burglary and vandalism in connection with her arrest December 12, 2001 outside the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills. (Photo by Steve Grayson/WireImage)
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2004
6360 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States
Winona Ryder during 2004 Los Angeles Film Festival - "Before Sunset" Premiere at ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California, United States. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)
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2006
2580 Cahuenga Blvd E, Los Angeles, CA 90068, United States
Winona Ryder arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "A Scanner Darkly" during Los Angeles Film Festival at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre on June 29, 2006, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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2006
321 South Ikea Way, Burbank, CA 91502, United States
Winona Ryder during Gran Centenario Tequila Celebrates the Premiere of "The Darwin Awards" at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival at the W Las Vegas Residences at W Tent at Village at the Lift in Park City, Utah, United States. (Photo by Donato Sardella/WireImage)
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2010
6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, United States
Actress Winona Ryder arrives at the "Black Swan" closing night gala during AFI FEST 2010 presented by Audi held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on November 11, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
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2011
San Francisco, California, United States
Winona Ryder, San Francisco, California, 2011.
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2013
355 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206, United Sattes
Winona Ryder poses backstage at the Marc Jacobs Spring 2014 fashion show at The New York State Armory, 68 Lexington on September 12, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Marc Jacobs)
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2016
55 Wall St, New York, NY 10005, United States
Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder pose backstage during IFP's 26th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani, Wall Street on November 28, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for IFP)
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2016
143 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002, United States
Winona Ryder attends the "Paterson" New York screening held at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema on December 15, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/FilmMagic)
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2017
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Winona Ryder(L) and Scott Mackinlay Hahn attend The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for TNT)
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2018
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Winona Ryder (L) and Sean Astin pose during the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 21, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Turner)
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2018
665 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States
Laura Linney, Laura Dern, Winona Ryder and Molly Shannon pose during the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 21, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Turner)
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2018
300 Doheny Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90048, United States
Winona Ryder (L) and Keanu Reeves attend a photo call for Regatta's "Destination Wedding" at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on August 18, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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3934 Washington Blvd, Ogden, UT 84403, United States
Winona Ryder attends the New York Premiere of "Black Swan" at Ziegfeld Theatre on November 30, 2010, in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
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6360 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States
Winona Ryder attends "The Commitments" Hollywood Premiere on August 7, 1991 at Pacific's Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
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Winona Ryder, childhood photo
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Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder
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Winona Ryder at Jimmy Kimmel's show
Achievements
2000
7018 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States
Winona Ryder receives a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star on October 6, 2000 at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Membership
Awards
Golden Globe Award
1993
Beverly Hills, California, United States
Winona Ryder holds her Golden Globe Award after the 1994 ceremonies in Beverly Hills, California. Ryder won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in the 1993 film The Age of Innocence, directed by Martin Scorsese.
Screen Actors Guild Award
2017
665 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States
Winona Ryder, co-recipient of the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series award for 'Stranger Things,' poses in the press room during the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Expo Hall on January 29, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
Johnny Depp and actress Winona Ryder attend the 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 19, 1991 at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
Winona Ryder holds her Golden Globe Award after the 1994 ceremonies in Beverly Hills, California. Ryder won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in the 1993 film The Age of Innocence, directed by Martin Scorsese.
9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
Winona Ryder attends the 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 22, 1994 at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
9876 Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
Winona Ryder and friend Kevin Haley attend the 25th Annual American Film Institute (AFI) Lifetime Achievement Award Salute to Martin Scorsese on February 20, 1997 at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
7018 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States
Winona Ryder receives a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star on October 6, 2000 at 7018 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
9355 Burton Way, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, United States
Winona Ryder is seen through a tinted glass as she arrives at the Beverly Hills Superior Court for her trial on charges of alleged grand theft, commercial burglary and vandalism in connection with her arrest December 12, 2001 outside the Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills. (Photo by Steve Grayson/WireImage)
6360 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States
Winona Ryder during 2004 Los Angeles Film Festival - "Before Sunset" Premiere at ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California, United States. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)
2580 Cahuenga Blvd E, Los Angeles, CA 90068, United States
Winona Ryder arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "A Scanner Darkly" during Los Angeles Film Festival at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre on June 29, 2006, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
321 South Ikea Way, Burbank, CA 91502, United States
Winona Ryder during Gran Centenario Tequila Celebrates the Premiere of "The Darwin Awards" at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival at the W Las Vegas Residences at W Tent at Village at the Lift in Park City, Utah, United States. (Photo by Donato Sardella/WireImage)
6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, United States
Actress Winona Ryder arrives at the "Black Swan" closing night gala during AFI FEST 2010 presented by Audi held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on November 11, 2010 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Winona Ryder poses backstage at the Marc Jacobs Spring 2014 fashion show at The New York State Armory, 68 Lexington on September 12, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Marc Jacobs)
Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder pose backstage during IFP's 26th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani, Wall Street on November 28, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for IFP)
143 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002, United States
Winona Ryder attends the "Paterson" New York screening held at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema on December 15, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/FilmMagic)
665 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States
Winona Ryder, co-recipient of the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series award for 'Stranger Things,' poses in the press room during the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Expo Hall on January 29, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
665 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States
Winona Ryder(L) and Scott Mackinlay Hahn attend The 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 29, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for TNT)
665 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States
Winona Ryder (L) and Sean Astin pose during the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 21, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Turner)
665 W Jefferson Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States
Laura Linney, Laura Dern, Winona Ryder and Molly Shannon pose during the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 21, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Turner)
300 Doheny Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90048, United States
Winona Ryder (L) and Keanu Reeves attend a photo call for Regatta's "Destination Wedding" at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on August 18, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
3934 Washington Blvd, Ogden, UT 84403, United States
Winona Ryder attends the New York Premiere of "Black Swan" at Ziegfeld Theatre on November 30, 2010, in New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
6360 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, United States
Winona Ryder attends "The Commitments" Hollywood Premiere on August 7, 1991 at Pacific's Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
(Teen whiz kid Lucas has a crush on an older redhead, but ...)
Teen whiz kid Lucas has a crush on an older redhead, but she's hot for the captain of the football team. Things get wild when Lucas tries to join the squad. With Charlie Sheen and Winona Ryder in her first film.
(Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty star i...)
Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty star in this cruelly hilarious dark comedy. which became one of the biggest cult classics of the 80.
(New England... the early 1960s. A sexy and unpredictable ...)
New England... the early 1960s. A sexy and unpredictable single mother of two is a source of constant embarrassment to her confused 15-year-old daughter, who's trying to deal with her own sexual awakening.
(Based on Isabel Allende's best-selling novel, The House o...)
Based on Isabel Allende's best-selling novel, The House of the Spirits is a hauntingly romantic epic tale spanning three generations of the Trueba family. At its core is the stormy yet passionate relationship between the supernaturally gifted Clara and her controlling husband Esteban, who resists change both politically and personally.
Ben Stiller, Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn star in this smart, insightful and hilarious comedy that looks at life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. This irreverent look at the harsh realities of life after college captures the misadventures of Lelaina (Ryder), an aspiring TV production assistant, and her relationships with her sarcastic roommate, Vickie (Garofalo), friends Sammy (Zahn) and Troy (Hawke) and an ambitious video executive, Michael (Stiller). Now, in its 10th anniversary, this is truly a comedic and cultural touchstone that encapsulates an era like no other.
(Winona Ryder and Academy Award-winner Angelina Jolie are ...)
Winona Ryder and Academy Award-winner Angelina Jolie are the certifiable stars of Claymoore Hospital's South Bell ward in this wry adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's best-selling memoir.
(Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Ke...)
Autumn in New York follows the sexual exploits of Will Keane (Richard Gere) - New York restaurateur, infamous verging-on-50 playboy, master of the no-commitment seduction - until he runs into an unexpected dead end when he meets Charlotte Fielding (Winona Ryder). Charlotte is half Will's age and twice his match, a 21 year-old free spirit yearning to get out and taste the excitement of adult life.
(Just before he's to marry Fiona, Roderick Blank receives ...)
Just before he's to marry Fiona, Roderick Blank receives an anonymous e-mail with 101 names on it; Fiona's is the 29th, the first 28 are women Rod has slept with, and the 30th turns out to be the stripper at his bachelor party. The notion that he will have sex with 70 more people sends Rod into crisis mode, especially after three odd men in an aseptic office confirm that a celestial machine has made an error. They suggest destroying the list, but Rod finds that easier said than done. Working his way through it consumes him, plus he realizes that death may await him after #101. Meanwhile, a femme fatale nicknamed Death Nell is putting men into a coma. Are they fated to meet?
(In this psychological thriller set in the world of New Yo...)
In this psychological thriller set in the world of New York City Ballet, Black Swan takes a gripping journey through the psyche of a ballerina whose role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect. Black Swan is now the winner of five Academy Award nominations.
(Inspired by actual events, "The Iceman" follows contract ...)
Inspired by actual events, "The Iceman" follows contract killer Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) from his early days in the mob until his arrest for the murder of more than a hundred men. Appearing to be living the American dream as a devoted husband and father, in reality Kuklinski was a ruthless hitman. James Franco, Wynona Ryder, Chris Evans, Ray Liotta and David Schwimmer also star.
(Martine Jamison is a NY theatre director beginning rehear...)
Martine Jamison is a NY theatre director beginning rehearsals for a new play starring her boyfriend Raymond opposite a young beauty. An unknown newcomer develops a peculiar fascination with Martine. As rehearsals continue, Martine has periods of disorientation that quickly deteriorate into vivid hallucinations as she becomes convinced someone is trying to poison her.
(Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder and Kate Boswor...)
Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder and Kate Bosworth star in this action-packed thriller about how far one man will go to protect his family from a psychotic local drug lord.
(Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) conducts an experiment ...)
Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) conducts an experiment in which people think they're delivering electric shocks to strangers. Ignoring pleas for mercy, most subjects don't stop because they've been told to go on.
(Set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the 198...)
Set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s, the first season focuses on the investigation into the disappearance of a young boy amid supernatural events occurring around the town, including the appearance of a girl with psychokinetic abilities who helps the missing boy's friends in their own search.
Winona Ryder is an American actress. A Golden Globe winner, she is known for starring in the films Beetlejuice and Little Women, among many others. One of the most profitable and iconic actresses of the 1990s, she made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas. As Lydia Deetz, a goth teenager in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988), she won critical acclaim and widespread recognition.
Background
Ethnicity:
Ryder's father is Jewish (his family emigrated from Romania, Russia, and Belarus). Many of her father’s relatives died in the Holocaust. Winona’s mother’s maiden name, Istas, is found in Belgium. Winona’s mother is of English, Belgian, German, and Irish ancestry.
Winona Ryder was born as Winona Laura Horowitz on October 29, 1971, Winona, Minnesota, the United States, to Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer. Her father's family was originally named "Tomchin" but took the surname "Horowitz" when he immigrated to the United States. Her father is an author and publisher while her mother is an author and video producer. She is the goddaughter of Timothy Leary. Her parents were friends of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and once edited a book called "Shaman Woman Mainline Lady", an anthology of writings on the drug experience in literature, which included one piece by Louisa May Alcott. Ryder would later play the lead role of Josephine March in the adaptation of this author's novel Little Women (1994).
Ryder has one full sibling, a younger brother, Urie (named in honor of the first Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin), and two half-siblings from her mother's prior marriage: an older half-brother, Jubal Palmer, and an older half-sister, Sunyata Palmer. In 1978, when Ryder was seven years old, she and her family relocated to Rainbow, a commune near Elk, Mendocino County, California, where they lived with seven other families on a 300-acre (120 ha) plot of land. As the remote property had no electricity or television sets, Ryder began to devote her time to reading and became an avid fan of J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. She developed an interest in acting after her mother showed her a few movies on a screen in the family barn.
Education
At age 10, Ryder and her family moved on again, this time to Petaluma, California. During her first week at Kenilworth Junior High, she was bullied by a group of her peers who mistook her for an effeminate, scrawny boy. "I was wearing an old Salvation Army shop boy’s suit. As I went to the bathroom I heard people saying, ‘Hey, faggot’. They slammed my head into a locker. I fell to the ground and they started to kick the shit out of me. I had to have stitches. The school kicked me out, not the bullies... Years later, I went to a coffee shop and I ran into one of the girls who’d kicked me, and she said, ‘Winona, Winona, can I have your autograph?’ And I said, ‘Do you remember me? Remember in seventh grade you beat up that kid?’ And she said, ‘Kind of’. And I said, ‘That was me. Go fuck yourself.’" As a result, Ryder ended up being home-schooled that year.
In 1983, when Ryder was 12, she enrolled at the American Conservatory Theater in nearby San Francisco, where she took her first acting lessons. In 1989, Ryder graduated from Petaluma High School with a 4.0 GPA.
In 1986, she adopted the name Ryder and made her debut in the teen angst drama Lucas, with critics and audiences alike spotting the pixie-haired 15-year-old's star quality. After her next film, she dropped out of high school and began an independent course, finishing her studies with straight As. Her next film was Square Dance (1987), where her teenage character creates a bridge between two different worlds - a traditional farm in the middle of nowhere and a large city. Ryder won acclaim for her role, and the Los Angeles Times called her performance in Square Dance "a remarkable debut." Both films, however, were only marginally successful commercially. Director Tim Burton decided to cast Ryder in his film Beetlejuice (1988), after being impressed with her performance in Lucas. In the film, she plays goth teenager Lydia Deetz. Lydia's family moves to a haunted house populated by ghosts played by Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, and Michael Keaton. Lydia quickly finds herself the only human with a strong empathy toward the ghosts and their situation. The film was a success at the box office, and Ryder's performance and the overall film received mostly positive reviews from critics.
Winona's doe-eyed looks quickly gained her attention as a youngster who tortures her classmates in the black comedy Heathers, a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life. Her performance was critically appreciated and the film soon achieved cult status.
Ryder played Kim, the love interest of an artificial man named Edward in the romantic fantasy film ‘Edward Scissorhands’ in 1990. The movie was directed by Tim Burton and starred Johnny Depp in the title role. The film was a big commercial hit. She made the transition to adult roles flawlessly, becoming the queen of 19th-century-period pieces with Bram Stoker's Dracula, Little Women and the Award winning movie The Age of Innocence in 1993 which had been adapted from Edith Wharton’s novel of the same name. In 1994 she played the tempestuous Jo in the movie Little Women along with Trini Alvarado, Claire Danes, and Kirsten Dunst. Ryder was nominated for an Academy Award for the Best Actress for this role.
Ryder won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination in the same category for her role in The Age of Innocence in 1993, as well as another Academy Award nomination for Little Women the following year for Best Actress.
One project close to Winona's heart was 1999's Girl, Interrupted, the true story of a young woman institutionalized after a suicide attempt. It was a film that she first signed on for when she was 21, not long after she herself had been treated for depression. "This movie was my way of exiting adolescence," she says. "It's a farewell piece to that time of my life, to all those roles that I had. I just didn't realize it was going to take seven years to make." The film was well-received by critics and earned co-star Angelina Jolie an Academy Award. Ryder turned executive producer with the 1999 drama film, Girl, Interrupted. She played Susanna Kaysen in the adaptation of her memoir of the same name. The supporting cast included Angelina Jolie, Brittany Murphy, and Vanessa Redgrave.
Ryder was arrested on shoplifting charges in 2001 and was also accused of using drugs like Vicodin and oxycodone without valid prescriptions. She was convicted of grand theft and vandalism and sentenced to three years probation in 2002. She remained on probation till December 2005. After the completion of her probation, she tried to stage a comeback in 2006. She appeared in the black comedy Sex and Death 101 in 2007. However, she could not resurrect her career and could find only minor roles after her comeback.
Ryder returned to the screen, and some media outlets called her performance "a remarkable comeback" to acting, having appeared in high-profile films such as Star Trek. In 2010, she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards, as the lead actress of When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story, and as part of the cast of Black Swan. In 2010 she played Lois Wilson in the television movie ‘When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story’ which premiered on CBS. In the movie, she portrayed the role of a college-educated woman who marries a man of modest means and how the two go about building their lives together.
Ryder appeared in a leading role in the film, The Dilemma, directed by Ron Howard and previously called Cheaters and What You Don't Know. The film, which also starred Vince Vaughn and Kevin James, began filming in Chicago in May 2010 and was released in January 2011. In 2011, she was cast as Deborah Kuklinski, the wife of contract killer Richard Kuklinski, in the thriller The Iceman. In 2012, Tim Burton directed her in the music video for The Killers' single, "Here with Me". She was reunited with Tim Burton for a role in the animated 3D feature film Frankenweenie, released in October 2012, and appeared alongside James Franco in the action thriller Homefront (2013).
In 2013, Ryder starred in a segment of the Comedy Central television series Drunk History called "Boston". She played religious protestor Mary Dyer, opposite stern Puritan magistrate John Endicott, played by Michael Cera. She has also appeared in the American miniseries Show Me a Hero, playing the president of the Yonkers City Council, and the British television film Turks & Caicos. In 2015, she starred alongside Peter Sarsgaard in the biographical drama film Experimenter, playing the wife of Stanley Milgram. Experimenter was released to positive reviews in October 2015. Aside from acting, she was also announced as the face of Marc Jacobs.
Starting in 2016, Ryder starred in the Netflix hit Stranger Things, a sci-fi drama set in small-town Indiana in the early 1980s. She received a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Joyce Byers, a single mom whose son mysteriously disappears, and contributed to the show's impressive five Emmy wins the following year. Since its debut, the show has earned a cult following and became a career comeback for Ryder.
After many years professionally apart, Ryder and her old co-star Keanu Reeves reunited in 2018 to star in the rom-com Destination Wedding. They had previously worked together in three other movies (Bram Stoker's Dracula, A Scanner Darkly, and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee), portraying love interests in the first two films.
(Set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the 198...)
2016
Religion
Winona Ryder said about her parents: "My father is an atheist. My mother is a Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system." She also said: "I still practice Buddhism to a certain extent and I believe in karma."
Views
Ryder has been involved in philanthropic work for the American Indian College Fund since her 20s, which sends low-income indigenous peoples to universities. Money from the premiers of her films funded heating and shuttle bus transportation for American Indian colleges, where the dropout rate was high. After Ryder's financial contributions, the dropout rate decreased dramatically.
Quotations:
"I read biographies of the greats, and they were so messed up that I thought I’d better mess myself up. But I couldn’t. I’m too small."
"I'm the happiest I've ever been. I'm not going to turn into Gloria Swanson and sit in my mansion watching my movies, with a crazy cigarette holder... but I feel so blessed to have done the things that I've done."
"I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I've fucking thought of it."
"I remember one time in particular. I was in the middle of auditioning, and I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it." She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor."
"For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move."
Personality
Ryder dedicated the film Little Women (1994) to Polly Klaas, a young girl from her hometown of Petaluma, California, who was kidnapped and brutally murdered. She offered a $200,000 reward for anyone with information on the subject and remains a strong supporter of the Polly Klaas Foundation.
Ryder suffers from aquaphobia because of a traumatic near-drowning at age 12. This caused problems with the underwater scenes in Alien: Resurrection (1997), some of which had to be re-shot numerous times. In 1997, former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano Jr. publicly referred to her as a negative role model for having done "more damage to young girls" than any other actress "because she smokes all the time in every movie she makes".
Ryder briefly checked herself into a hospital when she was 20, because she was suffering from depression, anxiety attacks, and exhaustion, resulting from constantly working on films.
Ryder was arrested in Beverly Hills for allegedly stealing clothing items and carrying illegal pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. Her lawyer denied the accusations, and Winona was released later that evening on $20,000 bail. Despite her alleged crime, Beverly Hills police described her as "very friendly, polite and cooperative" and "a nice lady". She has appeared on the cover of the June 2002 cover of W magazine wearing a "Free Winona" T-shirt. "Free Winona" T-shirts became popular over the Internet following her December 22, 2001 arrest, with many fans sporting them and purses in support.
On November 6, 2002, Ryder was found guilty of vandalism and grand theft in connection with the shoplifting charges dating from back on December 12, 2001. Sentencing is scheduled for December 6, 2002. She was acquitted of a third charge, burglary. Then she was sentenced to 480 hours of community service, three years' probation, $3700 in fines, and $6355 in restitution for her arrest on shoplifting charges.
Ryder is admittedly a late bloomer in terms of electronic devices. She did not know what streaming was when she was approached to do the Netflix series Stranger Things.
The 5ft 4in Ryder is well-known for her sense of style often appearing on the red carpet wearing vintage designer frocks and is equally famous for her high-profile boyfriends, something she says is due more to press coverage than the reality of her romantic choices. "I don't try to hide it or anything, but nobody wants to hear about Ian the computer scientist," she said recently.
Physical Characteristics:
Ryder's real hair color is blonde but when she made her first major film Lucas (1986), her hair color was dyed black. She was told to keep it that color and with the exception of Edward Scissorhands (1990), it has stayed that color since.
Quotes from others about the person
"Winona was so smart. She was fifteen, she turned sixteen on the movie. She was a prodigy. From a very young age, she was an old soul. She really got the words and the imagery. She had watched tons of old movies. She was really sophisticated intellectually. She had the beauty of Veronica. She had intelligence. She was just the perfect anti-Heather." - Denise Di Novi
Interests
Writers
Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Aldous Huxley, Oscar Wilde, J.D. Salinger
Music & Bands
Wilco, The Replacements, Cocteau Twins
Connections
Ryder was engaged to actor Johnny Depp for three years beginning in July 1990. She met Depp at the Great Balls of Fire! premiere in June 1989; two months later, they began dating. After their breakup, Ryder dated Soul Asylum frontman Dave Pirner for several years, staying "very close" even after their breakup. Ryder dated Matt Damon in the late 1990s to early 2000s, and she has been in a relationship with Scott Mackinlay Hahn since 2011.
Ryder hooked up with her Edward Scissorhands costar Johnny Depp in the late '80s. Things got serious fast, and the two got engaged in 1990. Johnny got inked with his infamous "Winona Forever" tattoo, which he tweaked to read "Wino Forever" after they broke up in 1993. Winona has since called the split her "first heartbreak."
Matt Damon and Winona Ryder were introduced in late 1997 by Gwyneth Paltrow, who at the time was good friends with Winona and also dating Matt's best friend, Ben Affleck. Winona and Matt hit it off and started a relationship, and she accompanied him to the Golden Globes in 2000, where he was nominated for his work in The Talented Mr. Ripley alongside Gwyneth Paltrow. They broke up later that year, but Winona had only good things to say about her ex in 2009. "Matt couldn't be a greater, nicer guy," she told Blackbook magazine. "I'm really lucky that I'm on good terms with him."
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Ryder has been dating fashion designer Scott Mackinlay Hahn since 2011, and the two have walked the red carpet together at many high-profile events. In a 2016 interview with The Edit, Winona opened up about why she's never been married. "I'm a serial monogamist," she said. "I'd rather never have been married than been divorced a few times. Not that there's anything wrong with divorce, but I don't think I could do it if that was a possibility. When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high. But I've been happily with someone for quite a while now."
Reeves and Ryder had worked together in four movies Bram Stoker's Dracula, A Scanner Darkly, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, and Destination Wedding, portraying love interests in three films. During the press tour for this film, she revealed that they had participated in a real wedding ceremony during the filming of Bram Stoker's Dracula: "We actually got married in Dracula. No, I swear to god I think we’re married in real life. In that scene, Francis [Ford Coppola] used a real Romanian priest,” she added. “We shot the master and he did the whole thing. So I think we’re married." Coppola corroborated her story, saying: "This is pretty authentic and I think very beautiful because we actually did the ceremony and had the priest do the ceremony. So in a sense, when we were all done, we realized that Keanu and Winona really are married as a result of this scene and this ceremony."
Ryder landed her big break playing kooky teenager Lydia Deetz in Burton's huge hit Beetlejuice in 1988 and went on to appear in Edward Scissorhands and the filmmaker's latest project, Frankenweenie. The star is adamant her huge success as an actress is down to her friendship with the quirky director. She said: "I've known Tim Burton for 25 years, and I credit him with my career. I really mean that. This guy came in and started talking about movies and music, and 25 minutes later I was like, 'When is this Tim Burton guy coming?' And he was like, 'That's me!' And I was like, 'Oh!' I had no idea that a director could actually be so cool and I could easily hang out with them, you know?"
"Tim has always been a very special person to me, I love being around him, it never feels like work. Our relationship, in a very strange way, it's the same... that love is still there. It's the same Tim Burton from that wonderful day."