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Winona Ryder
Winona Ryder’s screen credits include Beth Macintyre / The Dying Swan in Black Swan, Kim in Edward Scissorhands, and Amanda Grayson in Star Trek.
Born October 29, 1971 Winona, Minnesota, USA5 movies on MoviHero
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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. …
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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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- 2026One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5Self (uncredited)
- 2025Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First ShadowSelf - 'Stranger Things' Joyce Byers (archive footage)
- 2024Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceLydia
- 2023Haunted MansionPat (uncredited)
- 2022Gone in the NightKath
- 2022Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She CalledSelf - Actress (archive footage)
- 2022The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo NixonSelf
- 2021Hannibal Hopkins & Sir AnthonySelf (archive footage)
- 2020Sarah Cooper: Everything's FineLacey Groin
- 2018Destination WeddingLindsay
- 2017The PacerActor
- 2016Author: The JT LeRoy StoryHerself
- 2015ExperimenterAlexandra "Sasha" Milgram
- 2014Turks & CaicosMelanie Fall
- 2013HomefrontSheryl Marie Mott
- 2012Ben Lee: Catch My DiseaseSelf
- 2012FrankenweenieElsa Van Helsing (voice)
- 2012The LetterMartine Jamison
- 2012The IcemanDeborah Kuklinski
- 2011Stay CoolScarlet Smith
- 2011Black Swan: MetamorphosisSelf
- 2011The DilemmaGeneva Brannen
- 2010When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson StoryLois Wilson
- 2009The Private Lives of Pippa LeeSandra Dulles
- 2009Water PillsCarrie
- 2008The InformersCheryl Moore
- 2008The Last WordCharlotte Morris
- 2007The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'Self (archive footage)
- 2007WelcomeCynthia
- 2007Voom PortraitsSelf
- 2007The TenKelly La Fonda
- 2007The Darwin AwardsSiri Taylor
- 2007Sex and Death 101Death Nell / Gillian De Raisx (#101)
- 2007Marc Jacobs & Louis VuittonSelf
- 2006One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'Self / Donna
- 2006The Weight of the Line: Animation TalesSelf
- 2006A Scanner DarklyDonna Hawthorne
- 2005Nos Bastidores de HollywoodSelf (archive footage)
- 2004Linklater: St. Richard of AustinSelf
- 2004The Heart Is Deceitful Above All ThingsPsychologist
- 2004Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin(archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2003One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien ResurrectionSelf
- 2003101 Most Shocking Moments in EntertainmentSelf (archive footage)
- 2003Declaration of IndependenceSelf
- 2003The Day My God DiedProducer · Narrator (voice)
- 2002S1m0neNicola Anders
- 2002Mr. DeedsBabe Bennett
- 2001ZoolanderWinona Ryder (uncredited)
- 2001Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke HeadsSelf
- 2000Lost SoulsMaya Larkin
- 2000Autumn in New YorkCharlotte Fielding
- 1999Girl, InterruptedProducer · Susanna
- 1998CelebrityNola
- 1997Alien ResurrectionCall
- 1996The CrucibleAbigail Williams
- 1996Looking for RichardSelf / Lady Anne
- 1996BoysPatty Vare
- 1995How to Make an American QuiltFinn Dodd
- 1994Little WomenJo March
- 1994Reality BitesLelaina Pierce
- 1993The House of the SpiritsBlanca Trueba
- 1993The Age of InnocenceMay Welland
- 1993Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'Self
- 1992Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The MoviesSelf
- 1991Night on EarthCorky
- 1990MermaidsCharlotte Flax
- 1990The Making of Edward ScissorhandsSelf
- 1990Welcome Home, Roxy CarmichaelDinky Bossetti
- 1989Great Balls of Fire!Myra Gale Brown
- 1989HeathersVeronica
- 19881969Beth Carr
- 1987Square DanceGemma
- 1986LucasRina
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