
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 | 0.529 |
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, وینونا رایدر, |

1990

Edward Scissorhands
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1991

Night on Earth
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1993

The House of the Spirits
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2006

A Scanner Darkly
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2000

Autumn in New York
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1999

Girl, Interrupted
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1988

Heathers
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2002

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2000

Lost Souls
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1988

Beetlejuice
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1994

Reality Bites
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1993

The Age of Innocence
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1990

Mermaids
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2009

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
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1996

The Crucible
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2009

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1989

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1997

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1990

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1995

How to Make an American Quilt
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1998

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2002

S1m0ne
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1994

Little Women
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2001

Zoolander
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1986

Lucas
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2007

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2009

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2007

Sex and Death 101
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1996

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1996

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The Dilemma
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2012

Frankenweenie
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2010

Black Swan
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2008

The Informers
4.8/231
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2008

The Last Word
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2006

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2010

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2003

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6.8/12
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2007

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1987

Square Dance
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2012

The Letter
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2022

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
7.6/9
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2007

Welcome
6.4/9
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2013

Homefront
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2021

Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
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2014

Turks & Caicos
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2004

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
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2004

Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
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2001

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10/1
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2023

Haunted Mansion
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2012

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2/1
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2015

Experimenter
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2005

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1992

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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2018

Destination Wedding
5.8/761
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1993

Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
5.5/2
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2011

Black Swan: Metamorphosis
7.6/21
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2007

Voom Portraits
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2003

The Day My God Died
8/1
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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
7.9/32
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1992

Bram Stoker's Dracula
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2020

Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
5.4/40
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2007

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
8/7
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2009

Water Pills
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2014

Scorsese's Women
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