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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.

One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
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Tim Burton: Life in the Line
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
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Tim Burton: Life in the Line
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Haunted Mansion
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Gone in the Night
as Kath

Winona Ryder: The Ghosts She Called
as Self - Actress (archive footage)

The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon
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Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
as Self (archive footage)

Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
as Lacey Groin

The Plot Against America
as Evelyn Finkel

Destination Wedding
as Lindsay

Stranger Things
as Joyce Byers

Author: The JT LeRoy Story
as Herself
Dr. Feelgood
as Self (archive footage)

Experimenter
as Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram

Show Me a Hero
as Vinni Restiano

Hot Ones
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Scorsese's Women
as Mask

Turks & Caicos
as Melanie Fall

Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest

Homefront
as Sheryl Marie Mott

Drunk History
as Mary Dyer

Ben Lee: Catch My Disease
as Self

Frankenweenie
as Elsa Van Helsing (voice)

The Letter
as Martine Jamison

The Iceman
as Deborah Kuklinski

Stay Cool
as Scarlet Smith

Black Swan: Metamorphosis
as Self

The Dilemma
as Geneva Brannen

Black Swan
as Beth Macintyre / The Dying Swan

When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
as Lois Wilson

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
as Sandra Dulles

Star Trek
as Amanda Grayson
Water Pills
as Carrie

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest

The Informers
as Cheryl Moore

The Last Word
as Charlotte Morris

The Blood Is the Life: The Making of 'Bram Stoker's Dracula'
as Self (archive footage)

Welcome
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Voom Portraits
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The Ten
as Kelly La Fonda

The Darwin Awards
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Sex and Death 101
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Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton
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One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
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The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
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A Scanner Darkly
as Donna Hawthorne

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
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Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
as Psychologist
Cabin Fever: Beneath the Skin
as (archive footage) (uncredited)

One Step Beyond: The Making of Alien Resurrection
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment
as Self (archive footage)

Declaration of Independence
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Celebrities Uncensored
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The Day My God Died
as Narrator (voice)

S1m0ne
as Nicola Anders

Mr. Deeds
as Babe Bennett