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.
78 movies · 21 shows
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
2026·7.3
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024·6.9
Tim Burton: Life in the Line
2024·0.0
Haunted Mansion
2023·6.4
Gone in the Night
2022·5.5
Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
2022·7.7
The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon
2022·2.0
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021·4.5
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020·5.4
Destination Wedding
2018·5.8
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
2016·6.6
Experimenter
2015·6.5
Scorsese's Women
2014·0.0
Turks & Caicos
2014·6.3
Homefront
2013·6.9
Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
2012·2.0
Frankenweenie
2012·7.0
The Letter
2012·4.5
The Iceman
2012·6.6
Stay Cool
2011·4.8
Black Swan: Metamorphosis
2011·7.7
The Dilemma
2011·5.3
Black Swan
2010·7.7
When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
2010·6.0
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009·5.8
Star Trek
2009·7.4
Water Pills
2009·0.0
The Informers
2008·4.8
The Last Word
2008·5.8
The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
2007·8.0
Welcome
2007·6.0
Voom Portraits
2007·10.0
The Ten
2007·4.8
The Darwin Awards
2007·5.5
Sex and Death 101
2007·6.1
Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
2007·7.0
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006·8.2
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006·7.0
A Scanner Darkly
2006·6.8
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005·10.0
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
2004·0.0
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
2004·5.8
Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
2004·7.8
One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
2003·6.3
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
2003·5.0
Declaration of Independence
2003·7.7
The Day My God Died
2003·8.3
S1m0ne
2002·6.0
Mr. Deeds
2002·5.9
Zoolander
2001·6.2
Swatch Dogs and Diet Coke Heads
2001·10.0
Lost Souls
2000·5.1
Autumn in New York
2000·6.1
Girl, Interrupted
1999·7.6
Celebrity
1998·6.0
Alien Resurrection
1997·6.2
The Crucible
1996·6.6
Looking for Richard
1996·6.8
Boys
1996·5.4
How to Make an American Quilt
1995·6.4
Little Women
1994·7.3
Reality Bites
1994·6.5
The House of the Spirits
1993·6.9
The Age of Innocence
1993·7.0
Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
1993·7.0
Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies
1992·6.4
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992·7.5
Night on Earth
1991·7.5
Mermaids
1990·6.7
The Making of Edward Scissorhands
1990·8.0
Edward Scissorhands
1990·7.7
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1990·6.2
Great Balls of Fire!
1989·6.3
Heathers
1989·7.3
1969
1988·5.6
Beetlejuice
1988·7.4
Square Dance
1987·4.7
Lucas
1986·6.7