Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), better known under her professional name Winona Ryder, is an 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 a goth teenager, which won her critical and commercial recognition.
In 1983, when she was 12, Ryder enrolled in the American Conservatory Theatre to take acting classes. In 1986, she landed her first big-screen role in the film “Lucas;” she was only 15 years old.
How old was Winona Ryder when she dated Johnny Depp?
Winona and Johnny Depp met at the premiere of Great Balls of Fire! in 1989 when she was 17 and he was 26. They were engaged for three years before their break up in 1993. Johnny famously got his 'Winona Forever' tattoo changed to 'Wino Forever'.
After Ryder's film debut in Lucas (1986), she gained attention with her performance in Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988). She further rose to prominence with major roles in Heathers (1988), Mermaids (1990), Edward Scissorhands (1990), “Night on Earth” (1991), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
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.
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. Actor Winona Ryder says she feels like a mother to her young Stranger Things co-stars.
The former costars never dated, but they may be technically married! Ryder told Entertainment Weekly that, while on the set of the 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula, the pair may have accidentally been wed for real by a Romanian priest.
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.”
She was fifteen, she turned sixteen on the movie. She was a prodigy. From a very young age, she was an old soul. She really got the words and the imagery.
''She`s very girlie,'' says Nonie. ''She thinks too much,'' says Cher. So it is that the 44-year-old Cher, dressed in black, and the 18-year-old Winona Ryder, dressed in black, are busy pushing their new film, ''Mermaids,'' which opened Friday. ''It was, in the beginning,'' Cher says, ''a nightmare.
Despite the heartbreak, Depp and Ryder still remain good friends to this day. Last year, Ryder expressed her interest in developing a second Edward Scissorhands film in a bid to help Depp's career, which suffered greatly during allegations made against him from his ex-wife, Amber Heard.
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.
She may love it, but Winona has shown no signs of getting older. With her wrinkle-free face and youthful glow, it's hard to see how she's really changed over the years. But the Stranger Things star has stayed away from cosmetic surgery and previously stated that it's treated "almost like hygiene" these days.
Who was Tim Burton's first choice for Beetlejuice?
Burton's original choice for Beetlejuice was Sammy Davis, Jr. The producers also considered Dudley Moore and Sam Kinison for the role, but Geffen suggested Keaton. Burton was unfamiliar with Keaton's work, but was quickly convinced.
The 39-year-old actress - who plays the supporting role of ageing ballet dancer Beth MacIntyre in the Darren Aronofsky-directed project - found being nasty to its lead star Natalie Portman tough because she knew how much she had worked to perfect the role of psychologically-troubled Nina.
The pair (who costarred in the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands) got engaged five months after the first date, and Depp even got a tattoo that read "Winona Forever" — though, after their June 1993 breakup, he altered it to "Wino Forever."
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.
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.
