Age: 54
female
Winona Laura Horowitz (born October 29, 1971), known professionally as Winona Ryder, is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards, including a Golden Globe Award, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards. She is known for taking on quirky roles in her earlier films, later playing more prominent roles in the 1990s. 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 (1989), Mermaids (1990), Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). She garnered critical acclaim and two consecutive Academy Award nominations for her portrayals of socialite May Welland in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993) and Jo March in the fifth film adaptation of Little Women (1994). Her other films during this period were Reality Bites (1994), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), The Crucible (1996), Alien Resurrection (1997), Celebrity (1998), and Girl, Interrupted (1999), which she also executive-produced. In 2002, Ryder starred in the critically panned box office hit Mr. Deeds, after which her career declined and she took a break from films. In 2009, she returned in the high-profile film Star Trek. In 2010, she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards: as the lead actress in the television film When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story and as part of the cast of Black Swan. She also reunited with Burton for Frankenweenie (2012). She has starred as Joyce Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series Stranger Things (2016–2025), for which she has received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations; and in 2020, she starred in the HBO drama miniseries The Plot Against America. Her relationship with Johnny Depp in the early 1990s and a 2001 arrest for shoplifting were both subjects of tabloid journalism. She has been open about her personal struggles with anxiety and depression. In 2000, Ryder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Winona Ryder
Joyce Byers
for Joyce Byers in EVEN STRANGER THINGS
Suggested by enzotakerian
After the events of Stranger Things, "Even Stranger Things" will center on the younger kids such as Holly, Derek, Erica, Debbie, Mary and some others. They start getting into Dungeons & Dragons while the older kids are away at college. It will also center on Jim Hopper and Joyce Byers getting ready for their wedding. It will also center on El, who has survived and escaped the horrors of the destroyed Upside Down. But here's the conflict: Dr. Kay, who is fooled by El fake death, is desperate to find a new way to weaponize the army with otherworldly abilities. While in hiding from the government, Dr. Kay finds an old tome that actually works when it comes to casting spells. There will be other monsters that are like those in D&D. Oh, and two characters will be Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson (the creators of D&D) and they will be helpful allies to the kids when they visit Hawkins for a convention.
