
Winona, Minnesota, USA
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.

as Self - Guest

as Allison Taylor (voice)
1989

as Joyce Byers
2016

as Self - Guest
2014

as Melissa Warburton
1994

as Self - Host
1975

as Self
2015

as Self
2003

as Winona Ryder
1992

as Self - Guest
2009

as Lydia
2024

as Mary Dyer
2013

as Self
1953
as Self
2024

as Self (uncredited)
2026

as Lydia
2024

as Self
2024

as Pat (uncredited)
2023

as Kath
2022

as Self - Actress (archive footage)
2022

as Self
2022

as Self (archive footage)
2021

as Lacey Groin
2020

as Lindsay
2018

as Herself
2016

as Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram
2015

as Mask
2014

as Melanie Fall
2014

as Sheryl Marie Mott
2013

as Self
2012

as Elsa Van Helsing (voice)
2012

as Martine Jamison
2012

as Deborah Kuklinski
2012

as Scarlet Smith
2011

as Self
2011

as Geneva Brannen
2011

as Beth Macintyre / The Dying Swan
2010

as Lois Wilson
2010
as Self - Guest
1 ep.

as Allison Taylor (voice)
1 episodes

as Joyce Byers
42 episodes

as Self - Guest
1 episodes

as Melissa Warburton
1 episodes

as Self - Host
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Winona Ryder
1 episodes

as Self - Guest
1 episodes

as Mary Dyer
1 episodes

as Self
5 episodes

as Winona (voice)
1 episodes

as Fran
1 episodes

as Evelyn Finkel
6 episodes

as Vinni Restiano
6 episodes
as Self
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes
as Self (archive footage)
1 episodes

as Self
4 episodes

as Self
1 episodes
Executive Producer