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Winona Ryder

Birth name: Winona Laura Horowitz

Birth date: 29.10.1971

Winona Ryder was born Winona Horowitz and named after her the town in which she was born, Winona Minnesota. She grew up in a ranch commune in Northern California where there was no electricity. She is the Goddaughter of Timothy Leary and her parents were friends of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and once edited a book called "Shaman Woman Mainline Lady" an anthology of writings on the drug experience in literature - this included one piece by Louisa May Alcott. Winona Ryder was later to star as Jo in this author's Little Women (1994). She moved with her parents to Petaluma (near San Francisco) when she was ten and enrolled in acting classes at the American Conservatory Theater. At 13 she had a video audition to the film Desert Bloom (1986), but didn't get the part. Director David Seltzer, however, spotted her and cast her in Lucas (1986). When telephoned to ask how she'd like to have her name appear on the credits, she suggested Ryder as her father's Mitch Ryder album was playing the background. Ryder was selected for the part of Mary Corleone in The Godfather: Part III (1990), but had to drop out of the role after catching the flu from the strain of doing the films Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990) and Mermaids (1990) back to back. She said she didn't want to let everyone down by doing a substandard performance. She later made The Age of Innocence (1993) which was directed by Martin Scorsese, who she believes to be "the best director in the world".

Filmography

# Alpha Numeric (2006) (pre-production) # Sex and Death 101 (2007) (post-production) .... Gillian # A Scanner Darkly (2006) .... Donna Hawthorne # The Darwin Awards (2006) .... Siri # The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) (uncredited) .... Psychologist ... aka Livre de Jérémie, Le (France) # The Day My God Died (2003) (voice) .... Narrator # S1m0ne (2002) .... Nicola Anders # Mr. Deeds (2002) .... Babe Bennett/Pam Dawson # "Saturday Night Live" ... aka SNL ... aka SNL 25 (USA: new title) - Episode #27.20 (2002) TV Episode .... Host # "Friends" - The One with Rachel's Big Kiss (2001) TV Episode .... Melissa Warburton # "Strangers with Candy" - The Last Temptation of Blank (2000) TV Episode .... Fran # Lost Souls (2000) .... Maya Larkin # Autumn in New York (2000) .... Charlotte Fielding # Girl, Interrupted (1999) .... Susanna Kaysen ... aka Durchgeknallt (Germany) ... aka Durchgeknallt - Girl, interrupted (Germany: TV title) # Celebrity (1998) .... Nola # Alien: Resurrection (1997) .... Annalee Call ... aka Alien 4 # The Crucible (1996) .... Abigail Williams # "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist" - Monte Carlo (1996) TV Episode (voice) .... Winona # Boys (1996) .... Patty Vare # How to Make an American Quilt (1995) .... Finn Dodd # Little Women (1994) .... Jo March # "The Simpsons" - Lisa's Rival (1994) TV Episode (voice) .... Alison Taylor # Reality Bites (1994) .... Lelaina Pierce # The House of the Spirits (1993) .... Blanca Trueba ... aka Åndernes hus (Denmark) ... aka A Casa dos Espíritos (Portugal) ... aka Geisterhaus, Das (Germany) # The Age of Innocence (1993) .... May Welland # Dracula (1992) .... Mina Murray/Elisabeta ... aka Bram Stoker's Dracula (USA: complete title) # Night on Earth (1991) .... Corky ... aka Une nuit sur terre (France) # Mermaids (1990) .... Charlotte Flax # Edward Scissorhands (1990) .... Kim # Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990) .... Dinky Bossetti # Great Balls of Fire! (1989) .... Myra Gale Lewis # Heathers (1989) .... Veronica Sawyer # 1969 (1988) .... Beth # Beetle Juice (1988) .... Lydia # Square Dance (1987) .... Gemma Dillard ... aka Home Is Where the Heart Is (USA: TV title) # Lucas (1986) .... Rina