Winona Ryder

Winona Ryder's career is one of Hollywood's great redemption arcs, and I find it genuinely moving. She defined a generation's quirky intelligence in the late 1980s, deepened into serious drama through the 1990s, then endured a public fall that would have ended most careers. Instead she returned, and her ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award with the Stranger Things cast felt like a collective embrace. What sets her apart is fragility used as strength: those enormous eyes always suggest someone thinking three sentences ahead of the dialogue. Actors who have truly lost something bring a different gravity, and Ryder wears hers beautifully.

Name (English)

Winona Ryder

Name (Japanese)

ウィノナ・ライダー

Reading

うぃのな・らいだー

Born

October 29, 1971 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Boar

Origin

Winona, Minnesota, United States

Height

2 cm

Occupation

actor / film actor / film producer / voice actor / character actor

High school

Petaluma High School

Awards & achievements

• 1993 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture
• 2017 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Jupiter Awards

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8E%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Minnesota
• actor
• film actor
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.