Born
29 October 1971 (54)
Place of Birth
Winona, Minnesota, USA
Also known as
Wynona Ryder, Winona Laura Horowitz
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 majo...
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.
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
2026
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2024
Haunted Mansion
2023
Gone in the Night
2022
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022
The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon
2022
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020
Destination Wedding
2018
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
2016
Experimenter
2015
Scorsese's Women
2014
Turks & Caicos
2014
Homefront
2013
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
Frankenweenie
2012
The Letter
2012
The Iceman
2012
Stay Cool
2011
Black Swan: Metamorphosis
2011
The Dilemma
2011
Black Swan
2010
When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
2010
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009
Star Trek
2009
Water Pills
2009
The Informers
2008
The Last Word
2008
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
Welcome
2007
Voom Portraits
2007
The Ten
2007
The Darwin Awards
2007
Sex and Death 101
2007
Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
2007
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006
A Scanner Darkly
2006
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005