Winona Ryder-Actress and Producer
Name: Winona Ryder
Birthplace: Winona Laura Horowitz
Birthday: October 29, 1971 (1971-10-29) (age 37)
Olmsted County, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Occupation: Actress, Producer
Winona Ryder is known for her relationship with actor Johnny Depp throughout the early 1990s. She also received noteworthy media attention for her participation in the investigation of the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klaas in 1993, who was from Ryder’s hometown of Petaluma, California. Ryder also received worldwide attention after her arrest on December 12, 2001 for shoplifting from a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Beverly Hills, California.
In 2006, after her hiatus, Ryder appeared in Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, a science fiction film based on Philip K. Dick’s critically acclaimed 1977 novel. Ryder starred alongside Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr, and Woody Harrelson. Live action scenes were transformed with rotoscope software and the film was entirely animated. A Scanner Darkly was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival. Critics disagreed over the film’s merits; Carina Chocano of the Los Angeles Times found the film “engrossing” and wrote that “the brilliance of [the film] is how it suggests, without bombast or fanfare, the ways in which the real world has come to resemble the dark world of comic books.” Similarly, Matthew Turner of ViewLondon, believing the film to be “engaging” and “beautifully animated”, also praised the film for its “superb performances” and original, thought-provoking screenplay. Ryder also recently appeared in the comedy The Darwin Awards, starring alongside Joseph Fiennes. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2006.
Winona Ryder also confirmed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly she is reuniting with Heathers screenwriter Daniel Waters for the surreal black comedy Sex and Death 101 (2007).[45] The story follows the sexual odysseys of successful businessman Roderick Blank, played by Simon Baker, who receives a mysterious e-mail on the eve of his wedding, listing all of his past and future sex partners. “We will be doing a sequel to Heathers next.” Ryder stated. “There’s Heathers in the real world! We have to keep going!”[45]. In a more recent interview Ryder was quoted as saying on the speculation of a Heathers sequel: “I don’t know how much of the movie is official; it’s a ways away. But it takes place in Washington and Christian Slater agreed to come back and make an Obi-Wan-type appearance. It’s very funny.”
Winona Ryder also appeared in David Wain’s comedy The Ten, alongside Jessica Alba, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Famke Janssen, Oliver Platt, and Adam Brody. The film centers around ten stories, each of them inspired by one of the Ten Commandments. The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival 2007 on January 10, 2007, with a theatrical release on August 3, 2007. Ryder will play the female lead opposite Wes Bentley and Ray Romano in Geoffrey Haley’s offbeat romantic drama The Last Word.[48] She has also signed up to appear as a newscaster in the upcoming movie version of The Informers,[49] will join Robin Wright and Julianne Moore in Rebecca Miller’s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which is scheduled to start filming in April 2008 in Connecticut,[50] and will appear in Paramount Pictures’ and director J. J. Abrams’s Star Trek (2009), as Spock’s mother Amanda Grayson, a role originally played by Jane Wyatt.
Ryder was briefly hospitalized on November 13, 2008 “as a precaution” but released with no problems.
Winona Ryder Filmography
Year Film Role Director Other notes
1986 Lucas Rina David Seltzer
1987 Square Dance Gemma Dillard Daniel Petrie
1988 Beetlejuice Lydia Deetz Tim Burton
1969 Beth Karr Ernest Thompson
1989 Heathers Veronica Sawyer Michael Lehmann
Great Balls of Fire! Myra Gale Lewis Jim McBride
1990 Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael Dinky Bossetti Jim Abrahams
Edward Scissorhands Kim Boggs Tim Burton
Mermaids Charlotte Flax Richard Benjamin
1991 Night on Earth Corky Jim Jarmusch
1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula Wilhelmina “Mina” Murray/Elisabeta Francis Ford Coppola
1993 The Age of Innocence May Welland Martin Scorsese Nominated: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
The House of the Spirits Blanca Trueba Bille August
1994 Reality Bites Lelaina Pierce Ben Stiller
Little Women Josephine “Jo” March Gillian Armstrong Nominated: Academy Award for Best Actress
1995 How to Make an American Quilt Finn Dodd Jocelyn Moorhouse
1996 Boys Patty Vare Stacy Cochran
Looking for Richard Lady Anne Al Pacino Documentary film
The Crucible Abigail Williams Nicholas Hytner
1997 Alien: Resurrection Annalee Call Jean-Pierre Jeunet
1998 Celebrity Nola Woody Allen
1999 Girl, Interrupted Susanna Kaysen James Mangold Also executive producer
2000 Autumn in New York Charlotte Fielding Joan Chen
Lost Souls Maya Larkin Janusz Kaminski
2001 Zoolander Herself Ben Stiller Uncredited cameo
2002 Mr. Deeds Babe Bennett/Pam Dawson Steven Brill
S1m0ne Nicola Anders Andrew Niccol
2003 The Day My God Died Narrator Andrew Levine Voice, producer, documentary film
2004 The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things Psychologist Asia Argento Uncredited
2006 The Darwin Awards Siri Finn Taylor
A Scanner Darkly Donna Hawthorne Richard Linklater
2007 The Ten Kelly LaFonda David Wain
Sex and Death 101 Gillian De Raisx Daniel Waters
Welcome Cynthia Kristen Dunst
2008 The Last Word Charlotte Morris Geoffrey Haley
The Informers Cheryl Laine Gregor Jordan
Water Pills Carrie Blake Soper post-production
2009 Star Trek Amanda Grayson J. J. Abrams post-production
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Sandra Rebecca Miller post-production
Stay Cool Scarlet Smith Michael Polish post-production
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