| Winona Ryder  AKA Winona Laura Horowitz
Born: 29-Oct-1971
Birthplace: Winona, MN
Gender: Female
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Edward Scissorhands Winona Ryder is an American film actor whose films include Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Reality Bites, and Girl, Interrupted. She was Oscar-nominated for Little Women and The Age of Innocence. Her film career has sputtered in recent years, but Ryder has remained tabloid fodder since she was caught shoplifting at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills in 2001, and convicted of felony grand theft for trying to steal approximately $5,500 of merchandise. She claimed she was "doing research" for a role.
She was born Winona Horowitz, named for the town where she was born out of wedlock, Winona, Minnesota. She was raised in an upscale hippie commune, where there was no electricity but celebrities occasionally visited. Her godfather was Timothy Leary, and poet Allen Ginsberg was a family friend. Her parents, who married when their daughter was 11, co-edited the 1982 book, Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady: Women's Writings on the Drug Experience. She reportedly fell in love with cinema when she was seven, when her mother gained access to a barn near the commune -- wired for electricity -- and began screening old movies with a 16mm projector.
In high school, she was a straight-A student. She studied drama at American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, made her film debut at 15, in Lucas, and found fame two years later playing the troubled teen daughter in Beetlejuice. In 1991, she voluntarily spent five days in a psychiatric hospital for what was then described as "sleep deprivation." Later reports said she had suffered from depression, anxiety attacks, and exhaustion from making several consecutive films with little time off.
After several long-term relationships (see below), Ryder has in recent years accumulated enough brief romantic entanglements to put her in the same league with such noted Hollywood lotharios as Warren Beatty and Glenn Ford. She has been linked with singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, millionaire Dodi al-Fayed, Beck, Bono, Edward Burns, George Clooney, Green Day's Tre Cool, Lemonhead Evan Dando, Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert Downey, Jr., David Duchovny, Counting Crows' Adam Duritz, Jakob Dylan, Jimmy Fallon, Nirvana's Dave Grohl, Corey Haim, Helmet's Page Hamilton, Chris Isaak, Stephan Jenkins, Old 97's Rhett Miller, Chris Noth, Conor Oberst, Erik Schrody (aka Everlast), Charlie Sheen, Mark Wahlberg, rocker Paul Westerberg, The White Stripes' Jack White, Bruce Willis, and musician Pete Yorn. Courtney Love once remarked, "You're no-one in music until you have feuded with me or until you sleep with Winona".
Ryder's hair is naturally blonde, but she dyed it for her first film, Lucas, and has usually been a brunette since. She owns a large collection of copies of her favorite book, J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
Father: Michael Horowitz (bookstore owner)
Mother: Cindy Istas (video producer)
Sister: Sunyata Palmer (half-sister, from her mother's first marriage)
Brother: Jubal Palmer (half-brother, from her mother's first marriage)
Brother: Uri Horowitz
Boyfriend: Christian Slater (actor, together 1989-90)
Boyfriend: Johnny Depp (actor, together 1990-93, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Dave Pirner (musician, together 1993-96)
Boyfriend: Matt Damon (actor, together 1996-2000)
Boyfriend: Page Hamilton (musician, together 2003)
Boyfriend: Adam Duritz (musician)
Boyfriend: Blake Sennett (musician, together since 2007)
High School: Petaluma High School, Petaluma, CA (1989)
Promises (2001-02, uncertain)
Burglary Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, CA (12-Dec-2001)
Grand Theft Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, CA (12-Dec-2001)
Shoplifting Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, CA (12-Dec-2001)
Vandalism Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, CA (12-Dec-2001)
Drug Possession Saks Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, CA (12-Dec-2001)
Hollywood Walk of Fame Oct-2000
Drug Overdose (8-Nov-2008)
Stomach Pumped Hillingdon Hospital, West London (8-Nov-2008)
Jewish Ancestry
Risk Factors: Smoking, Depression, Alcoholism, Insomnia
TELEVISION
Stranger Things Joyce Byers (2016-)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Destination Wedding (2-Aug-2018)
Author: The JT LeRoy Story (22-Jan-2016) · Herself
Experimenter (25-Jan-2015)
Homefront (27-Nov-2013)
Frankenweenie (20-Sep-2012) [VOICE]
The Iceman (30-Aug-2012)
The Dilemma (13-Jan-2011) · Geneva
Black Swan (1-Sep-2010) · Beth Macintyre
Star Trek (6-Apr-2009) · Amanda Grayson
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (9-Feb-2009)
The Informers (22-Jan-2009) · Cheryl Moore
The Last Word (19-Jan-2008) · Charlotte
Sex and Death 101 (8-Feb-2007) · Death Nell
The Ten (19-Jan-2007) · Kelly La Fonda
A Scanner Darkly (25-May-2006)
The Darwin Awards (25-Jan-2006) · Siri Taylor
S1m0ne (23-Aug-2002) · Nicola Anders
Mr. Deeds (28-Jun-2002) · Babe Bennett
Lost Souls (13-Oct-2000)
Autumn in New York (11-Aug-2000) · Charlotte
Girl, Interrupted (8-Dec-1999) · Susanna
Celebrity (7-Sep-1998)
Alien: Resurrection (6-Nov-1997) · Call
The Crucible (27-Nov-1996) · Abigail Williams
Looking for Richard (5-Jul-1996)
Boys (10-May-1996)
How to Make an American Quilt (6-Oct-1995) · Finn
Little Women (21-Dec-1994) · Jo March
Reality Bites (18-Feb-1994) · Lelaina Pierce
The House of the Spirits (21-Oct-1993) · Blanca
The Age of Innocence (17-Sep-1993) · May Welland
Bram Stoker's Dracula (13-Nov-1992) · Mina Murray
Night on Earth (12-Dec-1991)
Mermaids (14-Dec-1990) · Charlotte Flax
Edward Scissorhands (7-Dec-1990) · Kim
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (12-Oct-1990)
Great Balls of Fire! (30-Jun-1989) · Myra Gale Brown
Heathers (31-Mar-1989) · Veronica
1969 (18-Nov-1988) · Beth
Beetlejuice (30-Mar-1988) · Lydia
Square Dance (20-Feb-1987)
Lucas (28-Mar-1986)
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