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who has achieved notoriety for the portrayal of her roles, receiving a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actor’s Guild Award and two Academy Award nominations in 1993 and 1994. She has her own Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is also known for her high profile romance with actor Johnny Depp in the early 1990s. In 2001, however, Ryder took on her most challenging role as a real-life defendant when she was arrested in Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, suspected of taking several thousand dollars’ worth of designer merchandise.
CLIMBING THE LADDER OF SUCCESS
Winona Laura Horowitz was born on 29 October 1971, being named after her hometown in Minnesota. When she was seven years old, the family moved to a commune in the town of Elk in northern California, where they lived with several other families. There was no television and Winona became an avid reader, losing herself in the characters from the books. From time to time movies were shown in the main barn on the commune and it was from these that Winona developed a strong desire to act.
Three years later the family were on the move again to Petaluma, just north of San Francisco. These were not happy days for Ryder as she suffered bullying at school, and life didn’t improve until her parents gave her permission to enrol at the American Conservatory Theatre. Ryder was serious about carving herself a career in acting and luckily success came quickly. At the young age of 13, she was spotted by a talent scout and given a role in the film Lucas , starring alongside Charlie Sheen and Corey Haim. When asked how she would like her name to appear in the credits, she thought for a while and then chose the surname ‘Ryder’, after Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, which was one of her father’s favourite bands.
Ryder gained real recognition when she was chosen by director Tim Burton to play in his movie Beetlejuice . She excelled in the part of Lydia Deitz, who was a gothic bookworm who defied her yuppie parents. The film was a major hit and so was Ryder, putting her firmly on the ladder of success. After Beetlejuice the offers came in fast and she played a teenage bride in Great Balls of Fire , Cher’s long-suffering daughter in Mermaids and another gothic character in The Addams Family .
TROUBLED LOVE LIFE
Ryder first met actor Johnny Depp at the premier of Great Balls of Fire . They were immediately attracted to one another and began a love affair which survived three years. Depp was infatuated and even had ‘Winona Forever’ tattooed on his arm. They appeared together in Tim Burton’s next project, Edward Scissorhands , which was a huge box office success and once again secured her popularity with her fans.
Due to her tempestuous relationship with Depp, although she put it down to exhaustion and overwork, Ryder missed a big opportunity when she pulled out of role in Godfather 3 . Ryder took other roles, gradually losing her teenage image, but the pressure slowly started to show. Her relationship with Depp was on the rocks, she was suffering from insomnia, and Ryder decided to check herself into a psychiatric clinic for a short period.
After a few years of sticking to mainly literary works, Ryder got her life back on track and started a new relationship with the singer from the group Soul Asylum. While working on the set of Alien: Resurrection , the fourth in the Alien saga, Ryder struggled with her part and, to add to her troubles, fell and injured her back. She was prescribed painkillers, but little did she realise at the time that these would cause her no end of problems.
BAD TIMES
In 2001 Ryder boosted the ratings of the television show Friends , when she was seen kissing Jennifer Aniston in a lesbian embrace. However, the gossip this stirred up in the press was nothing compared to what was happening in her private life. In August that same year, Ryder was forced to go into a clinic suffering from acute stomach pains, forcing
CLIMBING THE LADDER OF SUCCESS
Winona Laura Horowitz was born on 29 October 1971, being named after her hometown in Minnesota. When she was seven years old, the family moved to a commune in the town of Elk in northern California, where they lived with several other families. There was no television and Winona became an avid reader, losing herself in the characters from the books. From time to time movies were shown in the main barn on the commune and it was from these that Winona developed a strong desire to act.
Three years later the family were on the move again to Petaluma, just north of San Francisco. These were not happy days for Ryder as she suffered bullying at school, and life didn’t improve until her parents gave her permission to enrol at the American Conservatory Theatre. Ryder was serious about carving herself a career in acting and luckily success came quickly. At the young age of 13, she was spotted by a talent scout and given a role in the film Lucas , starring alongside Charlie Sheen and Corey Haim. When asked how she would like her name to appear in the credits, she thought for a while and then chose the surname ‘Ryder’, after Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, which was one of her father’s favourite bands.
Ryder gained real recognition when she was chosen by director Tim Burton to play in his movie Beetlejuice . She excelled in the part of Lydia Deitz, who was a gothic bookworm who defied her yuppie parents. The film was a major hit and so was Ryder, putting her firmly on the ladder of success. After Beetlejuice the offers came in fast and she played a teenage bride in Great Balls of Fire , Cher’s long-suffering daughter in Mermaids and another gothic character in The Addams Family .
TROUBLED LOVE LIFE
Ryder first met actor Johnny Depp at the premier of Great Balls of Fire . They were immediately attracted to one another and began a love affair which survived three years. Depp was infatuated and even had ‘Winona Forever’ tattooed on his arm. They appeared together in Tim Burton’s next project, Edward Scissorhands , which was a huge box office success and once again secured her popularity with her fans.
Due to her tempestuous relationship with Depp, although she put it down to exhaustion and overwork, Ryder missed a big opportunity when she pulled out of role in Godfather 3 . Ryder took other roles, gradually losing her teenage image, but the pressure slowly started to show. Her relationship with Depp was on the rocks, she was suffering from insomnia, and Ryder decided to check herself into a psychiatric clinic for a short period.
After a few years of sticking to mainly literary works, Ryder got her life back on track and started a new relationship with the singer from the group Soul Asylum. While working on the set of Alien: Resurrection , the fourth in the Alien saga, Ryder struggled with her part and, to add to her troubles, fell and injured her back. She was prescribed painkillers, but little did she realise at the time that these would cause her no end of problems.
BAD TIMES
In 2001 Ryder boosted the ratings of the television show Friends , when she was seen kissing Jennifer Aniston in a lesbian embrace. However, the gossip this stirred up in the press was nothing compared to what was happening in her private life. In August that same year, Ryder was forced to go into a clinic suffering from acute stomach pains, forcing
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