Winona Ryder American Actress Known for Stranger Things

Winona Ryder is an American actress born on 29 October 1971 in Winona. She is known for playing Joyce Byers in Stranger Things (2016).

Early life

Her father is Michael D. Horowitz. She studied at Petaluma High School, finishing in 1989 and American Conservatory Theater.

Career

Records list Lucas (1986) as her earliest screen credit. In the 1980s, she appeared in Beetlejuice (1988, as Lydia Deetz) and Heathers (1988). The 1990s brought Edward Scissorhands (1990, as Kim Boggs) and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992, as Mina Harker). Her 2000s credits include Zoolander (2001) and Star Trek (2009, as Amanda Grayson). During the 2020s, she worked on The Plot Against America (2020) and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).

In all, 49 films and 3 TV series appear in her credits from 1986 to 2024. Drama is the most frequent genre among her listed titles (21), followed by comedy (12) and romance (8). Of her five titles with worldwide box-office figures on record, Star Trek (2009) has the highest, at $386 million.

Keanu Reeves appears in four of her listed titles, including A Scanner Darkly (2006) and Destination Wedding (2018). Other co-stars who recur in her credits are Monica Bellucci (three titles) and Natalie Portman (two titles). Tim Burton directed three of her titles on record. Ben Stiller is credited as director on two of them, including Reality Bites (1994).

Recognition

Winona Ryder received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture in 1993 for The Age of Innocence. Further recognition came with the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2017) for Stranger Things and the star on Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has also been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1994 for The Age of Innocence. Her awards record shows 4 wins and 11 nominations.