Age: 54
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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
Sophia's Ghost
for Sophia's Ghost in Kindred Spirits
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"Kindred Spirits" is a heartwarming coming-of-age film that follows the journey of Matthew, a High School Senior with a creative taste for the vintage aesthetic. He has long-time friend Alan Lance to be with, in addition to goth girl Alyson Fitzpatrick, whose father is the principal of their school. Despite his creativity, he is hesitant to try to do something more "Modern". When his school is planning a big Halloween Bash, it would seem fate gives him a chance. While trying to come up with a video, he discovers an old, abandoned, soon-to-be-demolished school named Oakhaven Prep. Turns out the school is haunted by the ghosts of dead teenage students and adult staff. Among the ghosts, he and his friends meet Sophia, a 1980s prep student struggling with perfectionism and unfinished business from her suicide in 1988, which causes her powers to go haywire form time to time. As Matthew and Alyson help her find closure, they face two new challenges: the Grim Reaper gives Oakhaven's ghosts until the end of demolition to find a school to haunt or stay at their graves with the threat of being collected if caught outside of their cemeteries.
