Winona Ryder

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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. 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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2026
Stranger Things: Tales from '85
TV show Thanks
2026
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
Movie Self (uncredited)
2025
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
TV show Self
2025
Behind the Curtain: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Movie Self - 'Stranger Things' Joyce Byers (archive footage)
2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Movie Lydia
2023
Haunted Mansion
Movie Pat (uncredited)
2022
Gone in the Night
Movie Kath
2022
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
Movie Self - Actress (archive footage)
2022
The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon
Movie Self
2021
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Movie Self (archive footage)
2020
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
Movie Lacey Groin
2020
The Plot Against America
TV show Evelyn Finkel
2018
Destination Wedding
Movie Lindsay
2016
Stranger Things
TV show Joyce Byers
2016
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
Movie Herself
2015
Dr. Feelgood
TV show Self (archive footage)

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2015
Experimenter
Movie Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
2015
Show Me a Hero
TV show Vinni Restiano
2015
Hot Ones
TV show Self
2014
Scorsese's Women
Movie Mask
2014
Turks & Caicos
Movie Melanie Fall
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
2013
Homefront
Movie Sheryl Marie Mott
2013
Drunk History
TV show Mary Dyer
2012
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
Movie Self
2012
Frankenweenie
Movie Elsa Van Helsing (voice)
2012
The Letter
Movie Martine Jamison
2012
The Iceman
Movie Deborah Kuklinski
2011
Stay Cool
Movie Scarlet Smith
2011
Black Swan: Metamorphosis
Movie Self
2011
The Dilemma
Movie Geneva Brannen
2010
Black Swan
Movie Beth Macintyre / The Dying Swan
2010
When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
Movie Lois Wilson
2009
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Movie Sandra Dulles
2009
Star Trek
Movie Amanda Grayson
2009
Water Pills
Movie Carrie
2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self - Guest
2008
The Informers
Movie Cheryl Moore
2008
The Last Word
Movie Charlotte Morris
2007
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
Movie Self (archive footage)