Winona Ryder

**Winona Laura Horowitz** (born October 29, 1971), better known under her professional name **Winona Ryder**, is an American actress. She started her career in 1986. She first appeared in the movie _Lucas_ in 1986. Her first big role came in 1988 with _Beetlejuice_ as Lydia Deetz, a Gothic teenager. She returned to the role in the 2024 sequel _Beetlejuice Beetlejuice_.

Ryder had other big roles in _Edward Scissorhands_ (1990), _Heathers_ (1989), _Dracula_ (1992) and _Girl, Interrupted_ (1999). She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in _The Age of Innocence_ (1993), and for Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as "Jo" in _Little Women_ in 1995. She did not win either of the awards. In 2000, Ryder received a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California.

## Filmography

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|Year|Film|Role|Director|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1986|_Lucas_|Rina|David Seltzer|||
|1987|_Square Dance_|Gemma Dillard|Daniel Petrie|||
|rowspan="2"|1988|_Beetlejuice_|Lydia Deetz|Tim Burton||
|_1969_|Beth Karr|Ernest Thompson||||
|rowspan="2"|1989|_Heathers_|Veronica Sawyer|Michael Lehmann||
|_Great Balls of Fire!_|Myra Gale Lewis|Jim McBride||||
|rowspan="3"|1990|_Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael_|Dinky Bossetti|Jim Abrahams||
|_Edward Scissorhands_|Kim Boggs|Tim Burton||||
|_Mermaids_|Charlotte Flax|Richard Benjamin||||
|1991|_Night on Earth_|Corky|Jim Jarmusch|||
|1992|_Bram Stoker's Dracula_|Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray/Elisabeta|Francis Ford Coppola|||
|rowspan="2"|1993|_The Age of Innocence_|May Welland|Martin Scorsese|Nominated: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|
|_The House of the Spirits_|Blanca Trueba|Bille August||||
|rowspan="2"|1994|_Reality Bites_|Lelaina Pierce|Ben Stiller||
|_Little Women_|Josephine "Jo" March|Gillian Armstrong|Nominated: Academy Award for Best Actress|||
|1995|_How to Make an American Quilt_|Finn Dodd|Jocelyn Moorhouse|||
|rowspan="3"|1996|_Boys_|Patty Vare|Stacy Cochran||
|_Looking for Richard_|Lady Anne|Al Pacino|Documentary film|||
|_The Crucible_|Abigail Williams|Nicholas Hytner||||
|1997|_Alien Resurrection_|Annalee Call|Jean-Pierre Jeunet|||
|1998|_Celebrity_|Nola|Woody Allen|||
|1999|_Girl, Interrupted_|Susanna Kaysen|James Mangold|Also executive producer||
|rowspan="2"|2000|_Autumn in New York_|Charlotte Fielding|Joan Chen||
|_Lost Souls_|Maya Larkin|Janusz Kamiński||||
|rowspan="1"|2001|_Zoolander_|Herself|Ben Stiller|Uncredited cameo|
|rowspan="2"|2002|_Mr. Deeds_|Babe Bennett/Pam Dawson|Steven Brill||
|_S1m0ne_|Nicola Anders|Andrew Niccol||||
|2003|_The Day My God Died_|Narrator|Andrew Levine|Voice, producer, documentary film||
|2004|_The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things_|Psychologist|Asia Argento|Uncredited||
|rowspan="2"|2006|_The Darwin Awards_|Siri|Finn Taylor||
|_A Scanner Darkly_|Donna Hawthorne|Richard Linklater||||
|rowspan="3"|2007|_The Ten_|Kelly LaFonda|David Wain||
|_Sex and Death 101_|Gillian De Raisx|Daniel Waters||||
|_Welcome_|Cynthia|Kirsten Dunst||||
|rowspan="2"|2008|_Water Pills_|Carrie|Blake Soper|Short film|
|_The Last Word_|Charlotte Morris|Geoffrey Haley||||
|rowspan="4"|2009|_The Informers_|Cheryl Laine|Gregor Jordan||
|_The Private Lives of Pippa Lee_|Sandra|Rebecca Miller||||
|_Star Trek_|Amanda Grayson|J. J. Abrams|_completed_|||
|_Stay Cool_|Scarlet Smith|Michael Polish|_post-production_|||
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## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Winona Ryder
- **image**: Winona Ryder-63849.jpg
- **alt**: Winona Ryder
- **caption**: Ryder in 2024
- **birth name**: Winona Laura Horowitz
- **birth place**: Winona, Minnesota, USA
- **occupation**: Actress
- **years active**: 1985 - present
- **parents**: Michael D. Horowitz