Winona Ryder Says She Gets Questioned About Playing a Mom on 'Stranger Things' Because She Doesn't Have Kids. Winona Ryder is back on everyone's radar thanks to Netflix's new series, Stranger Things, but she reveals that despite the show's rave reviews, she still gets questions about her role on the show.
Winona Ryder , who has no kids herself, said she found it “strange” to quickly develop a strong maternal bond with her on-screen children Noah Scnapp and Charlie Heaton.
After telling The Edit that she has “happily” been with her partner for “a while,” Ryder noted that she has never been married due to her high standards of love.
Her father is from a Ukrainian Jewish and Romanian Jewish family. Growing up, she visited her paternal grandparents in Brooklyn for Passover every year. Named after Winona, Minnesota, Ryder was given her middle name, Laura, because of her parents' friendship with Laura Huxley, writer Aldous Huxley's wife.
Ryder was born to Cynthia Palmer and Michael Horowitz, both authors and editors; her father was also a bookseller. Ryder identified as Jewish, following in her father's family heritage. At age seven Ryder moved with her family to Northern California, where her father owned land shared with multiple other families.
Ryder and Depp split iin 1993 after four years together. “They're young, and they grew apart,” a rep for Ryder told People at the time. Depp hinted to The Los Angeles Times at the time that the media attention was part of the reason his relationship with Ryder ended.
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 Ukrainian Jewish and Romanian Jewish.
For Ryder, much of her anxiety and depression came from the journey to stardom. She says of that overwhelming experience, “I'm a very lucky person and very privileged, but I also have the same pressures as any human being.”
Speaking of her Judaism, Ryder said that she is “Not religious, but I do identify. It's a hard thing for me to talk about because I had family who died in the camps, so I've always been fascinated with that time.” She also said: “There are times when people have said, 'Wait, you're Jewish? But you're so pretty!
Despite being married “in the eyes of God,” both Ryder and Reeves are currently in separate relationships. The John Wick actor is currently dating visual artist Alexandra Grant and the Stranger Things star has been in a relationship with Scott Mackinlay Hahn since 2021.
Winona decided to break off the relationship because of the amount of backlash they were getting. Their relationship was constantly being criticised because of the age difference between the two (Johnny was 27, Winona 18, at the time.)
3. Winona Ryder. Winona Ryder is another example of an actress that feels comfortable in her own skin, regardless of her age, and has no intention whatsoever of undergoing plastic surgery, or at least none that we know of.
Well, I was talking to my dad last year and saying, 'What if I can't have a kid? ' and he said, 'There are other ways to have children in your life,'” Stranger Things star Winona Ryder told The Telegraph in 2014. “That's true — and I get these amazing doses with my brother's kids.
Winona Ryder is fiercely private about her love life. The Stranger Things star has been dating Scott Mackinlay Hahn since 2011, and has kept many details about their relationship under wraps. In recent years, however, the actress has opened up on occasion about her long-term romance with Hahn.
She once told Highly Sensitive, “I had had panic attacks from the age of 12 – probably from the pressure of working and then going through adolescence onscreen.” In another interview with Tampa Bay Times, she said, “But at that age, you think that grown-ups have all the answers, so you feel that if you go to someplace ...
Depp got the tattoo in the 90s as a way to honour actress Winona Ryder whom he was dating at the time. However, once they broke up he changed the tattoo to say "Wino Forever". The Pirates of the Caribbean actor took the stand in court to share the story of the tattoo, saying: "I took off the last two letters.
While she's had many successful and long relationships, Ryder has never been married and doesn't appear to want to take that step. “I'm a serial monogamist,” she said to The Edit. “I'd rather never have been married than been divorced a few times.
Ryder's escape to the Twin Cities had little to do with a desire to be close to the city she was born in — she only spent six months in Winona before her family relocated to California — and everything to do with a different sort of longing.
However, despite remaining friends after the break-up, things took a slight turn when Depp started dating Amber Heard. “[Ryder] had a respectful relationship with Johnny for years [after their split], but she soured on any idea of an acting reunion after Johnny hooked up with Amber,” an insider source said.
In my relationship with Winona it was my mistake to be as open as we were. I thought if we were honest we would destroy the curiosity monster. Instead, we fed it. We gave people permission to feel like they were part of it," Depp told the Los Angeles Times.
