Winona Ryder — biography, films, roles and trivia

Biography

💥Winona Laura Horowitz, better known as Winona Ryder. She was born in 1971 in Olmsted, Minnesota, USA. She was the second of four children. Her father worked as a writer, and her mother was an editor. She studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. She works as an actress and producer. Since 2011, she has been in a relationship with fashion designer Scott Hahn; the couple has no children.

🏆Main awards🏆: Golden Globe (1994) [The Age of Innocence], Screen Actors Guild (2017) [Stranger Things]

🎬Main projects🎬: "Beetlejuice" (1988), "Stranger Things" (2016), "Edward Scissorhands" (1990), "The Age of Innocence" (1993), "Little Women" (1994)

⭐Interesting fact⭐: Winona's real surname is Horowitz, and she took the stage name Ryder in honor of her favorite musician, Mitch Ryder

Filmography

1

2016 Stranger Things Joyce Byers

Awards & recognition

3 nominations · 3 Award ceremony

Golden Globe Awards 1 nominations

Best Actress on TV (Drama) Stranger Things 2017

Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 nominations

Best Actress in a Drama Series Stranger Things 2017

Saturn Awards 1 nominations

Best Actress in a Television Series Stranger Things 2017

Interesting facts

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1
Since 1990, Ryder has been in a relationship with Johnny Depp. Later, Ryder maintained a relationship with Soul Asylum band member Dave Pirner and was engaged to Matt Damon.
2
Winona got her name thanks to the small town (Winona) in Minnesota where she was born.
3
In 1993, a 12-year-old girl named Polly Klaas was kidnapped in her hometown. Ryder offered a reward of 200 thousand dollars for help in finding the child. However, the kidnapper managed to kill the girl.
4
Timothy Leary, the psychedelic guru of the sixties, is the godfather of Winona Ryder.
5
When the future actress was 7 years old, her parents moved to a hippie commune where, besides them, 7 other families lived. They grazed horses and never watched television, because their home did not even have electricity.
6
Winona once helped save the life of director Richard Attenborough. She dreamed that the plane Richard was flying on crashed in the mountains. Waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, the actress called the director and began persuading him not to fly anywhere in the near future. Winona's hysterics turned out to be too convincing, and Attenborough gave up his plane ticket. And the next day, the television news announced that "his" plane had indeed crashed.
7
Winona Ryder was born Winona Laura Horowitz. But even that surname is not the actress's real one. She should have been called Winona Tomchin.
8
Winona suffers from hydrophobia, i.e. she is afraid of water. She has a good reason for this - at the age of twelve she almost drowned.
9
In an interview with the British magazine OK, she admitted that she believes in life after death and maintains contact with some of her deceased relatives.
10
Ryder is actually blonde, but wanted to become a brunette from an early age.
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Famous Canadian rocker Avril Lavigne admitted in an interview with Glamour magazine that she admires Winona Ryder and considers her one of the most glamorous and talented actresses.