Winona Ryder
Acting
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.
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Filmography of
Winona Ryder
Lydia
... 2024
Pat (uncredited)
... 2023
Kath
... 2022
Self - Actress (archive footage)
... 2022
... 2022
Self (archive footage)
... 2021
Lacey Groin
... 2020
Lindsay
... 2018
Herself
... 2016
Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
... 2015
Melanie Fall
... 2014
Sheryl Marie Mott
... 2013
... 2012
Elsa Van Helsing (voice)
... 2012
Martine Jamison
... 2012
Deborah Kuklinski
... 2012
... 2011
Geneva Brannen
... 2011
Beth Macintyre / The Dying Swan
... 2010
Lois Wilson
... 2010
Sandra Dulles
... 2009
Amanda Grayson
... 2009
Scarlet Smith
... 2009
Cheryl Moore
... 2008
Charlotte Morris
... 2008
Self (archive footage)
... 2007
Cynthia
... 2007
Self
... 2007
Kelly La Fonda
... 2007
Death Nell / Gillian De Raisx (#101)
... 2007
Herself
... 2007
... 2006
Donna Hawthorne
... 2006
Siri Taylor
... 2006
... 2005
Psychologist
... 2004
(archive footage) (uncredited)
... 2004
... 2003
... 2003
Narrator (voice)
... 2003
Nicola Anders
... 2002
Babe Bennett
... 2002
Winona Ryder (uncredited)
... 2001
... 2001
Maya Larkin
... 2000
Charlotte Fielding
... 2000
Susanna
... 1999
Nola
... 1998
Call
... 1997
Abigail Williams
... 1996
Self / Lady Anne
... 1996
Patty Vare
... 1996
Finn Dodd
... 1995
Jo March
... 1994
Lelaina Pierce
... 1994
Blanca Trueba
... 1993
May Welland
... 1993
Mina Murray / Elisabeta
... 1992
... 1992
Corky
... 1991
Charlotte Flax
... 1990
... 1990
... 1990
Dinky Bossetti
... 1990
Myra Gale Brown
... 1989
Veronica Sawyer
... 1988
Beth Carr
... 1988
Lydia
... 1988
Gemma
... 1987
Rina
... 1986