Winona Ryder
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.
98 acting credits
Acting · 98
The Simpsons
1989
Stranger Things
2016
Friends
1994
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Saturday Night Live
1975
Hot Ones
2015
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
Drunk History
2013
The Oscars
1953
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
1995
Edward Scissorhands
1990
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009
Black Swan
2010
Star Trek
2009
Homefront
2013
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024
Beetlejuice
1988
Strangers with Candy
1999
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
Alien Resurrection
1997
Girl, Interrupted
1999
Little Women
1994
Zoolander
2001
Show Me a Hero
2015
The House of the Spirits
1993
The Plot Against America
2020
Heathers
1989
Haunted Mansion
2023
Mr. Deeds
2002
Frankenweenie
2012
The Age of Innocence
1993
The Iceman
2012
The Entertainment Biz
1998
A Scanner Darkly
2006
Reality Bites
1994
Sex and Death 101
2007
The Crucible
1996
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
2026
Lucas
1986
Mermaids
1990
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
2004
S1m0ne
2002
Destination Wedding
2018
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Night on Earth
1991
The Informers
2008
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2025
The Dilemma
2011
Celebrity
1998
Lost Souls
2000
Autumn in New York
2000
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Great Balls of Fire!
1989
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009
Experimenter
2015
Gone in the Night
2022
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1990
The Ten
2007
Turks & Caicos
2014
The Darwin Awards
2007
Looking for Richard
1996
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007
Boys
1996
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
1992
1969
1988
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
The Last Word
2008
When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
2010
Voom Portraits
2007
Square Dance
1987
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006
Stay Cool
2011
The Letter
2012
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993
Declaration of Independence
2003
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020
One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
2003
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
2003
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
2004
Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
2004
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
Welcome
2007
The Making of Edward Scissorhands
1990
Black Swan: Metamorphosis
2011
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012
The Day My God Died
2003
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2024
Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
2007
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
2016
Water Pills
2009
The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon
2022
Dr. Feelgood
2015
Scorsese's Women
2014
Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads
2001