Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder was born on Oct 29, 1971 in USA. Winona Ryder's big-screen debut came with Lucas directed by David Seltzer in 1986. Winona Ryder is known for Cadillac: How Do You Drive with Scissorhands? directed by David Shane, Timothée Chalamet stars as Edgar Scissorhands and Winona Ryder as Kim. Winona Ryder has got 20 awards and 55 nominations so far. The most recent award Winona Ryder achieved is Fangoria Chainsaw Awards. The upcoming new movie Winona Ryder plays is Haunted Mansion which will be released on Aug 11, 2023.

Winona Ryder was born Winona Laura Horowitz in Olmsted County, Minnesota, and was named after a nearby town, Winona, Minnesota. She is the daughter of Cynthia (Istas), an author and video producer, and Michael Horowitz, a publisher and bookseller. Her father's family is Russian Jewish and Romanian Jewish. She grew up in a ranch commune in Northern California which had no electricity. She is the goddaughter of Timothy Leary. Her parents were friends of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and once edited a book called "Shaman Woman Mainline Lady", an anthology of writings on the drug experience in literature, which included one piece by Louisa May Alcott. Ryder would later play the lead role of Josephine March in the adaptation of this author's novel Les quatre filles du Docteur March (1994).Ryder moved with her parents to Petaluma, California when she was ten and enrolled in acting classes at the American Conservatory Theater. At age 13, she had a video audition to the film Desert Bloom (1986), but did not get the role. However, director David Seltzer spotted her and cast her in Lucas (1986). When telephoned to ask how she would like to have her name appear on the credits, she suggested Ryder as her father's Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels album was playing the background. Ryder was selected for the role of Mary Corleone in Le parrain, 3e partie (1990), but had to drop out of the role after catching the flu from the strain of doing the films Roxy (1990) and Les 2 sirènes (1990) back-to-back. She said she did not want to let everyone down by doing a substandard performance. She later made Le Temps de l'innocence (1993), which was directed by Martin Scorsese, whom she believes to be "the best director in the world".