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 
 Year  Film  Role  Director  Notes 1986 Lucas Rina David Seltzer  1987 Square Dance Gemma Dillard Daniel Petrie  1988Beetlejuice Lydia Deetz Tim Burton  1969 Beth Karr Ernest Thompson  1989 Heathers Veronica Sawyer Michael Lehmann Great Balls of Fire! Myra Gale Lewis Jim McBride  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  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 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  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 2000 Autumn in New York Charlotte Fielding Joan Chen  Lost Souls Maya Larkin Janusz Kamiński 2001 Zoolander Herself Ben Stiller Uncredited cameo 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 2006 The Darwin Awards  Siri Finn Taylor  A Scanner Darkly  Donna Hawthorne Richard Linklater  2007 The Ten Kelly LaFonda David Wain  Sex and Death 101 Gillian De Raisx Daniel Waters  Welcome Cynthia Kirsten Dunst2008 Water Pills   Carrie  Blake Soper Short film The Last Word Charlotte Morris Geoffrey Haley 2009 The Informers Cheryl Laine Gregor JordanThe 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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