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Winona Ryder has grown since the year 1978 on a commune near Mendocino, California. She has a brother, Yuri (b. 1976), who scored his first name after Yuri Gagarin, and a half-sister Sunyata (* 1968) and one half-brother, Jubal, (* 1970) from the first marriage of her mother Cindy. His parents, Cindy and Michael Horowitz, were active in the hippie movement. Timothy Leary was Winona Ryder's godfather.
In 1981 the family moved to after Petaluma, California. Since she was in the public school as an outsider, she was sent to a private school as well as to teach the acting school of the American Conservatory Theater.
Ryder was discovered by a scout at a theatrical performance at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco at the age of thirteen. It was considered for a role in the film Desert Bloom considered, but the role was eventually filled with Annabeth Gish. The debut took place in the movie Lucas, who was shot in the summer of 1985 near Chicago.
Winona Ryder was nominated twice for an Academy Award, for roles in The Age of Innocence and Little Women. For her role as Charlotte Flax in Mermaids, she received a Golden Globe nomination for the role of May Welland in The Age of Innocence, she won 1994 Golden Globe for best supporting role. Better-known roles they occupied in the films Bram Stoker's Dracula, Alien - The Rebirth, Interrupted and Edward Scissorhands.
Over the years, Winona Ryder had some relationships with prominent colleagues, including with Johnny Depp, Dave Pirner and Matt Damon. In 2002 she was convicted of shoplifting of garments worth U.S. $ 5,000 to a probation period of three years and a working edition of 480 hours.
In the movie Star Trek she plays the mother of Mr. Spock.
Born Winona Laura Horowitz
October 29, 1971 (age 38)
Olmsted County, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation Actress/Producer
Years active 1986 – present
Filmography
1986: Lucas
1987: Square Dance - reunion in Texas
1987: AIDS Video Project
1988: Beetle Juice
1988: The Generation of 1969 (1969)
1989: Heathers
1989: Great Balls Of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis - A Life for the rock'n'roll
1990: Home, Roxy Carmichael (Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael)
1990: Edward Scissorhands (Edward Scissorhands)
1990: Mermaids (Mermaids)
1991: Night on Earth
1992: Bram Stoker's Dracula (Dracula)
1993: The Age of Innocence (The Age of Innocence)
1993: The House of Spirits (The House of the Spirits)
1994: Reality Bites - Full Life
1994: The Simpsons (animation series) - voice
1994: Little Women (Little Women)
1995: An American Quilt (How to Make an American Quilt)
1996: Run Off (Boys)
1996: Al Pacino's Looking for Richard
1996: The Crucible (The Crucible)
1997: Alien - Resurrection (Alien: Resurrection)
1998: Celebrity - Beautiful, rich, famous
1999: Interrupted (Girl, Interrupted)
2000: It began in September (Autumn in New York)
2000: Lost Souls - Lost Souls
2001: Friends (TV series)
2000: Zoolander
2002: Mr. Deeds
2002: S1m0ne
2004: The heart is a deceitful person (The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things)
2006: The Darwin Awards
2006: A Scanner Darkly - A Scanner Darkly
2007: The Ten
2007: Sex and Death 101
2007: Welcome (Short)
2008: The Last Word
2009: The Informers
2009: Star Trek
2009: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
