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Winona Ryder - Actress

Occupation: Actress Birth Name: Winona Laura Horowitz Birth Date: 10/29/1971 Birth Place: Winona, Minnesota, USA Height: 5' 4" Sex: F Nationality: American Father: Michael Horowitz Mother: Cindy Palmer Horowitz Relation: Johnny Depp (engaged), David Pirner (engaged), Matt Damon (engaged), Daniel Day-Lewis, David Duchovny, Val Kilmer, Chris Noth, J Claim Fame: As Lydia in "Beetlejuice" (1988)

Winona Ryder (born Winona Laura Horowitz) is an American actress born on October 29, 1971 in Winona, Minnesota to Michael and Cindy Horowitz. She was named after her birthplace. Notable family friends included her godfather Timothy Leary and Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
When she was 7 years old she and her family resided at a commune in Elk, California, where they lived with 7 other families on a 300 acre (1.2 km?) plot of land. As the area had no electricity Ryder took to reading, particularly appreciating the novel Catcher in the Rye. Her mother did however show her some films on a screen in the barn, which perhaps lead her to develop an interest in what would later make up her career. At age 10 the family moved again to Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. She was harassed her first week of junior high school there when a group of bullies mistook her for a feminine, scrawny boy. This led her to be schooled at home that year, but she also spent time attending the American Conservatory Theater in nearby San Francisco where she started taking acting lessons.
In 1985 she sent a video audition to appear in the film Desert Bloom, but was rejected. However, David Seltzer, a writer and director, soon noticed her and cast her for his 1986 film Lucas. When asked how she wanted her name to appear in the credits, she suggested Ryder as a Mitch Ryder album of her father's played in the background. Her breakthrough film is generally considered to be Tim Burton's 1988 film Beetlejuice, in which she played a depressed goth named Lydia who comes to live in a haunted house. She went on to play a primary role in another Burton project, the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands, alongside her then-boyfriend Johnny Depp. She withdrew from her role in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part III, after feeling exhausted from recent roles and afraid her performance would be sub-par. In 1992 she starred in that director's Bram Stoker's Dracula. The next year she appeared in The Age of Innocence, a film based on a novel by Edith Wharton and helmed by director Martin Scorsese, who Ryder named "the best director in the world". Her role in this movie won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an Academy Award nomination. She received yet another nomination in 1994 with Little Women, based on the classic novel of the same name. In 1996 she starred in Al Pacino's debut as a director, Looking for Richard. Soon afterward she accepted a role in the 1997 film Alien: Resurrection. Having grown up on the Alien franchise, she signed before having even read a script. In 1999 she acted in and served as executive producer for Girl, Interrupted, based on the autobiography of Susanna Kaysen. She went on to portray the love interest of Richard Gere's character in the 2000 romance Autumn in New York.
She got into legal trouble in December 2001 when she was caught shoplifting $5,500 worth of designer clothes at Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Beverly Hills, California. On 6 December 2002 she was sentenced to 480 hours of community service, three years' probation, $3700 in fines, and $6355 in restitution.
Notable romances in the past include Johnny Depp, Christian Slater, David Pirner, David Duchovny, Gary Oldman, Matt Damon and Conor Oberst.

Filmography:

Year	Name	Star	Genre	Other
2009	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee		MV
2009	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee	Owen Turner	MV
2008	The Informers		MV
2008	Star Trek	Amanda Grayson	MV
2008	The Informers	Cheryl Laine	MV	aka Bret Easton Ellis' The Informers
2008	Star Trek	Amanda Grayson	MV
2008	Sex and Death 101	Gillian	MV
2008	Alpha Numeric	Tea Baker	MV
2007	Sex and Death 101	Gillian	MV
2007	Welcome	Cynthia	MV
2007	The Last Word		MV
2007	The Ten	Kelly LaFonda	MV
2006	A Scanner Darkly	Donna	MV
2006	The Darwin Awards	Siri	MV
2006	Alpha Numeric		MV
2006	A Scanner Darkly	Donna Hawthorne	MV
2005	The Darwin Awards	Siri	MV
2005	Mary Warner	Mary Warner	MV
2004	The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things	Psychologist	MV	aka Livre de J?r?mie, Le (France)
2003	The Day My God Died	Narrator	MV
2002	S1m0ne	Nicola Anders	MV
2002	Mr. Deeds	Babe Bennett/Pam Dawson	MV
2000	Strangers with Candy - The Last Temptation of Blank	Fran	TV
2000	Lost Souls	Maya Larkin	MV
2000	Autumn in New York	Charlotte Fielding	MV
1998	Celebrity	Nola	MV
1997	Alien: Resurrection	Annalee Call	MV	aka Alien 4
1996	The Crucible	Abigail Williams	MV
1996	Boys	Patty Vare	MV
1995	How to Make an American Quilt	Finn Dodd	MV
1994	The Simpsons - Lisa's Rival	Alison Taylor	TV
1994	Reality Bites	Lelaina Pierce	MV
1994	Little Women	Jo March	MV
1993	The House of the Spirits	Blanca Trueba de Satigny	MV	aka A Casa dos Esp?ritos (Portugal)
1993	The Age of Innocence	May Welland	MV
1990	Mermaids	Charlotte Flax	MV
1990	Edward Scissorhands	Kim	MV
1990	Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael	Dinky Bossetti	MV
1989	Great Balls of Fire!	Myra Gale Lewis	MV
1989	Heathers	Veronica Sawyer	MV
1988	Beetle Juice	Lydia	MV
1987	Square Dance	Gemma	MV	aka Home Is Where the Heart Is
1986	Lucas	Rina	MV

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