Winona Ryder
56 movies · 9 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 29, 1971 (age 54)
- Place of birth
- Winona, Minnesota, USA
- Also known as
- Wynona Ryder · Winona Laura Horowitz
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.
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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.
Known for
Winona Ryder: movies and TV shows
Acting (64)
- 2024 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
as Lydia
- 2023 Haunted Mansion
as Pat (uncredited)
- 2022 Gone in the Night
as Kath
- 2020 Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
as Lacey Groin
- 2020
- 2018 Destination Wedding
as Lindsay
- 2017
- 2016 Stranger Things
as Joyce Byers
- 2016
- 2015 Experimenter
as Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
- 2015
- 2014 Turks & Caicos
as Melanie Fall
- 2013 Homefront
as Sheryl Marie Mott
- 2012 Frankenweenie
as Elsa Van Helsing (voice)
- 2012 The Letter
as Martine Jamison
- 2012 The Iceman
as Deborah Kuklinski
- 2011 Stay Cool
as Scarlet Smith
- 2011 The Dilemma
as Geneva Brannen
- 2010 Black Swan
as Beth Macintyre / The Dying Swan
- 2010 When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
as Lois Wilson
- 2009 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
as Sandra Dulles
- 2009 Star Trek
as Amanda Grayson
- 2009 Water Pills
as Carrie
- 2008 The Informers
as Cheryl Moore
- 2008 The Last Word
as Charlotte Morris
- 2007 Welcome
as Cynthia
- 2007 The Ten
as Kelly La Fonda
- 2007 The Darwin Awards
as Siri Taylor
- 2007 Sex and Death 101
as Death Nell / Gillian De Raisx (#101)
- 2006 A Scanner Darkly
as Donna Hawthorne
- 2004 The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
as Psychologist
- 2004 Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2003 The Day My God Died
as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 S1m0ne
as Nicola Anders
- 2002 Mr. Deeds
as Babe Bennett
- 2001 Zoolander
as Winona Ryder (uncredited)
- 2000 Lost Souls
as Maya Larkin
- 2000 Autumn in New York
as Charlotte Fielding
- 1999 Girl, Interrupted
as Susanna
- 1999
- 1998 Celebrity
as Nola
- 1997 Alien Resurrection
as Call
- 1996 The Crucible
as Abigail Williams
- 1996 Boys
as Patty Vare
- 1995 How to Make an American Quilt
as Finn Dodd
- 1995
- 1994 Little Women
as Jo March
- 1994
- 1994 Reality Bites
as Lelaina Pierce
- 1993 The House of the Spirits
as Blanca Trueba
- 1993 The Age of Innocence
as May Welland
- 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula
as Mina Murray / Elisabeta
- 1992
- 1991 Night on Earth
as Corky
- 1990 Mermaids
as Charlotte Flax
- 1990 Edward Scissorhands
as Kim
- 1990 Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
as Dinky Bossetti
- 1989
- 1989 Great Balls of Fire!
as Myra Gale Brown
- 1989 Heathers
as Veronica
- 1988 1969
as Beth Carr
- 1988 Beetlejuice
as Lydia
- 1987 Square Dance
as Gemma
- 1986 Lucas
as Rina
Behind the camera (5)
- 2026
- 2011 Black Swan: Metamorphosis
Thanks
- 2003 The Day My God Died
Producer
- 1999 Girl, Interrupted
Executive Producer
- 1995
Talk shows and appearances (34)
- 2026
- 2025 Tim Burton: Life in the Line
4 episodes
- 2025
- 2022
- 2022
- 2021
- 2016
- 2015 Dr. Feelgood
1 episode
- 2015 Hot Ones
1 episode
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
1 episode
- 2013 Drunk History
1 episode
- 2012
- 2009 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
1 episode
- 2007
- 2007
- 2007
- 2006
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2003
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
1 episode
- 2003
- 2003
- 2003 Celebrities Uncensored
1 episode
- 2001
- 1998 The Entertainment Biz
1 episode
- 1996
- 1996 E! True Hollywood Story
1 episode
- 1993
- 1992
- 1990
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
2 episodes
- 1953 The Oscars
5 episodes