Years active: 1986 - present (started around 14 years old; 38 years in the business)
About Winona Ryder
(Born Winona Laura Horowitz; October 29, 1971) American actress. She made her film debut in the 1986 film Lucas. Ryder's first significant role came in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988) as Lydia Deetz, a goth teenager, which won her critical and commercial recognition. After various appearances in film and television, Ryder continued her career with the cult film Heathers (1989), a controversial satire of teenage suicide and high school life, which drew Ryder further critical and commercial attention.
Having played diverse roles in many well-received films, Ryder won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination in the same category for her role in The Age of Innocence in 1993, as well as another Academy Award nomination for Little Women (1994) the following year for Best Actress. In 2000, Ryder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California.
In 2006, Ryder returned to the screen after a brief hiatus, later appearing in high-profile films such as Star Trek and Black Swan. In 2010, she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards, as the lead actress of When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story, and as part of the cast of Black Swan.
