Name
Winona Ryder
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1971-10-29 (55 years old)
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.
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.
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- 1991 Night on Earth as Corky
- 1993 The House of the Spirits as Blanca Trueba
- 2022 Gone in the Night as Kath
- 2006 A Scanner Darkly as Donna Hawthorne
- 2000 Autumn in New York as Charlotte Fielding
- 1999 Girl, Interrupted as Susanna
- 1989 Heathers as Veronica
- 2002 Mr. Deeds as Babe Bennett
- 2000 Lost Souls as Maya Larkin
- 1994 Reality Bites as Lelaina Pierce
- 1988 Beetlejuice as Lydia
- 1993 The Age of Innocence as May Welland
- 1990 Mermaids as Charlotte Flax
- 2009 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee as Sandra Dulles
- 1996 The Crucible as Abigail Williams
- 2011 Stay Cool as Scarlet Smith
- 1989 Great Balls of Fire! as Myra Gale Brown
- 1997 Alien Resurrection as Call
- 1990 Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael as Dinky Bossetti
- 1995 How to Make an American Quilt as Finn Dodd
- 1998 Celebrity as Nola
- 2002 S1m0ne as Nicola Anders
- 1994 Little Women as Jo March
- 2001 Zoolander as Winona Ryder (uncredited)
- 1986 Lucas as Rina
- 2007 The Ten as Kelly La Fonda
- 2009 Star Trek as Amanda Grayson
- 2007 Sex and Death 101 as Death Nell / Gillian De Raisx (#101)
- 1996 Looking for Richard as Self / Lady Anne
- 1996 Boys as Patty Vare
- 2011 The Dilemma as Geneva Brannen
- 2012 Frankenweenie as Elsa Van Helsing (voice)
- 2010 Black Swan as Beth Macintyre / The Dying Swan
- 2008 The Informers as Cheryl Moore
- 2008 The Last Word as Charlotte Morris
- 2007 The Darwin Awards as Siri Taylor
- 1988 1969 as Beth Carr
- 2012 The Iceman as Deborah Kuklinski
- 2010 When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story as Lois Wilson
- 2024 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as Lydia
- 2003 One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection as Self
- 2022 The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon as Self
- 2007 Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton as Self
- 1987 Square Dance as Gemma
- 2012 The Letter as Martine Jamison
- 2022 Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called as Self - Actress (archive footage)
- 2007 Welcome as Cynthia
- 2013 Homefront as Sheryl Marie Mott
- 2021 Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 Turks & Caicos as Melanie Fall
- 2004 The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things as Psychologist
- 2004 Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2001 Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads as Self
- 2023 Haunted Mansion as Pat (uncredited)
- 2012 Ben Lee: Catch My Disease as Self
- 2015 Experimenter as Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
- 2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 1992 Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies as Self
- 2003 Declaration of Independence as Self
- 2016 Author: The JT LeRoy Story as Herself
- 2018 Destination Wedding as Lindsay
- 1993 Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' as Self
- 2011 Black Swan: Metamorphosis as Self
- 2007 Voom Portraits as Self
- 2003 The Day My God Died as Narrator (voice)
- 2006 One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly' as Self / Donna
- 1990 The Making of Edward Scissorhands as Self
- 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula as Mina Murray / Elisabeta
- 2020 Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine as Lacey Groin
- 2007 The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 Water Pills as Carrie
- 2006 The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales as Self
- 2004 Linklater: St. Richard of Austin as Self
- 2003 101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment as Self (archive footage)
- 2026 One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 as Self (uncredited)
- 2025 Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow as Self - 'Stranger Things' Joyce Byers (archive footage)
- 2017 The Pacer
- 1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Allison Taylor (voice)
- 1994 Friends ( 1 episode ) as Melissa Warburton
- 1999 Strangers with Candy ( 1 episode ) as Fran
- 1992 The Larry Sanders Show ( 1 episode ) as Winona Ryder
- 1995 Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist ( 1 episode ) as Winona (voice)
- 2003 Celebrities Uncensored ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1953 The Oscars ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 2015 Show Me a Hero ( 6 episodes ) as Vinni Restiano
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2016 Stranger Things ( 42 episodes ) as Joyce Byers
- 1996 E! True Hollywood Story ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2020 The Plot Against America ( 6 episodes ) as Evelyn Finkel
- 2013 Drunk History ( 1 episode ) as Mary Dyer
- 2009 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1998 The Entertainment Biz ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 Hot Ones ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2025 Tim Burton: Life in the Line ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 Dr. Feelgood ( 1 episode ) as Self (archive footage)
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self (uncredited)
